melvin
Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo
64
Southern Oregon SOU 14-6, 7-3 CCC
74
Winner Eastern Oregon EOU 9-11, 5-5 CCC
Southern Oregon SOU
14-6, 7-3 CCC
64
Final
74
Eastern Oregon EOU
9-11, 5-5 CCC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Southern Oregon SOU 22 42 64
Eastern Oregon EOU 38 36 74

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | SOU Sports Information

Raiders' late push not enough against Mountaineers

LA GRANDE – The 12th-ranked Southern Oregon men's basketball team was already in too deep a hole by the time it finally caught fire in Saturday night's 74-64 loss against Eastern Oregon at Quinn Coliseum.

Off the mark for the second time in two weeks on the road, the Raiders shot 27 percent on their way to a 38-22 halftime deficit and were down 61-40 when EOU's Travis Meeker hit a 3-pointer with 8:29 left. But the Raiders then staged a 15-1 run as Joel Spear made 3-pointers on three straight possessions, Justin Martin hit one on the fourth and another Spear triple cut the lead to 62-55 with five minutes to play.

Another Martin trey made it 70-64 with 1:21 remaining, but that was as close as the Raiders got. They missed their final five field-goal attempts and ended up at 33 percent (22-of-67), right where they were in a Jan. 5 loss at Oregon Tech.

SOU (15-5 overall, 8-2 Cascade Conference) dropped into a second-place tie with Warner Pacific, one game behind Northwest Christian in the standings. Northwest (Wash.) and Evergreen State will visit Ashland High to open the second half of CCC play next Saturday and Sunday.

Kalvin Johanson, a 6-foot-11 senior post, led the Mountaineers (9-11, 5-5) with a career night of 23 points on 9-of-11 shooting, including five dunks. Travis Meeker added 15 poitns and Brandon Houston had 12 with seven rebounds.

SOU's Jordan West went for 19 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks. Spear recorded 14 points, seven rebounds, six assists and two blocks, and Martin hit 3-of-10 from beyond the arc on his way to 11 points. Ben DeSaulnier, the Raiders' leading scorer entering the night, was bottled up at 1-for-9 from the field but finished with eight points and six boards.

The Raiders, at one point tied 10-all, went nearly seven minutes without a bucket in the first half. When Jordan West finally ended the drought with 7:01 on the clock, EOU responded with seven straight points to make it 33-17 as the Raiders went three more minutes without scoring.

SOU entered the weekend with a league-best clip of 51 percent from the field.

The Raiders knocked off 25th-ranked College of Idaho on Friday but still haven't completed a sweep of the trip since the 2005-06 season. Coming into the night, they'd won five straight against EOU.
 
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