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Kyle Tedder led SOU for the second straight game with 23 points

Raiders Fall to Shawnee State 88-86

11/10/2012 7:58:00 PM

Box Score DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Twenty-third-ranked Southern Oregon stormed back from a 10-point first-half deficit to take a four-point halftime lead, but Shawnee State came back to defeat the Raiders 88-86 Saturday evening in the consolation game of the Daytona Mitsubishi/Kia Shootout at ICI Center.

Southern Oregon falls to 2-2 with the loss, while Shawnee State improves to 2-2. The Raiders head to Klamath Falls next weekend for the annual Oregon Tech Tournament, where they will face Holy Names and William Jessup.

The Raiders connected on 49.2 percent of their shots (32-of-65) in the game, with Kyle Tedder (Coos Bay, Ore./Marshfield) scoring a game-high 23 points. David Sturner (Philomath, Ore./Philomath) made nine of 13 shot attempts to score 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Joel Spear (Adelaide, Australia/St. Michaels) added 17 points. Eric Thompson (Roseburg, Ore./Roseburg) tallied 14 points in the loss and Terriel Thomas (Boise, Idaho/Borah) totaled 11 rebounds.

Ian Nixson led the Bears with 22 points, while Tyler Morgan tallied a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Jeremy Bennington added 18 points and Tyler Boyles finished with 10.

Shawnee State scored the first seven points of the game, and the Bears pushed their lead to as many as 10 points when Morgan hit a free throw to make it 31-21 with 7:18 to play in the first half. Sturner hit a layup for the Raiders to spark 22-8 SOU run. The Raiders claimed their first lead of the game with 2:05 to go in the period when Spear made a layup to put SOU up 38-37.

Southern Oregon went into the break with a 47-43 advantage, but Shawnee State evened it back up early in the second half. As the period wound down it looked like the Bears might pull away, claiming a seven-point lead when Boyles' shot made it 82-75 with less than three minutes to play.

The Raiders scored the next five points to pull within two following a three-pointer by Tedder, but the Bears responded with five straight points to go back up by seven with 19 seconds remaining. Late three-pointers by Thompson and Tedder pulled SOU within two, but the Raiders ran out of time in the 88-86 defeat.
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