Box Score ASHLAND – The Southern Oregon men's basketball team ducked Walla Walla's 3-point barrage and held on for dear life to secure a 94-85 Cascade Conference victory Sunday afternoon at Mountain Avenue Gym.

The Wolves, who came into the weekend shooting 31 percent from downtown in CCC play, sunk 15 of their first 22 3-point attempts, the last of which knotted the score at 63-all midway through the second half. It was tied again, 81-81 with 2:23 left after they scored six straight points, when SOU's Tristen Holmes and Kenny Meyer made a pair of free throws on consecutive possessions, and Jordan Hunt's 3-pointer from the top of the circle with 49 seconds to play put the Raiders up 88-81.

Holmes had 15 points and seven assists, Meyer finished with 12 points, six rebounds and six assists, and Conor Carroll and Ben DeSaulnier scored 14 apiece to pace the Raiders. They improved to 11-7 overall and 5-3 in the CCC going into home dates next Saturday and Sunday with first-place Eastern Oregon and second-place College of Idaho.

Walla Walla (1-15, 0-8) – which also made an upset bid Saturday at Oregon Tech, getting within five points at the four-minute mark – finished 16-of-30 from downtown, including a 10-for-15 mark in the first half. Dylan Browning scored 17 points, Ethan Osias had 16, and the pair combined to shoot 7-for-10 outside.

SOU posted its most 3-point makes of the season, too, by going 16-for-38. Carroll made four of those, while Tate Hoffman (10 points, five rebounds, three assists) and Justin Martin hit three apiece.

The Raiders shot 51 percent from the field (30-of-59) and made 18 of 22 free-throw attempts. Hunt, a freshman post, went 4-for-6 for the second game in a row to register 13 points with seven boards. SOU had a 41-15 advantage in bench points; Jason Simmrin added five big ones in the second half and was one of eight Raiders to connect from 3-point territory.

The Raiders trailed 67-63 after a Browning jumper but responded with a 14-4 run that took two minutes, keyed by 3-pointers from Simmrin and Carroll along with DeSaulnier's and-one.