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Al Case, Ashland Daily Photo.
70
William Jessup WJU 6-1
79
Winner Southern Oregon SOU 3-1
William Jessup WJU
6-1
70
Final
79
Southern Oregon SOU
3-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
William Jessup WJU 34 36 70
Southern Oregon SOU 32 47 79

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

Carroll, Raiders end William Jessup's 6-game win streak

KLAMATH FALLS – Conor Carroll scored 20 points off the bench and accounted for eight straight in a game-deciding run as No. 11 Southern Oregon dealt William Jessup (Calif.) its first loss of the season by a score of 79-70 on Friday at the Lithia-Oregon Tech Classic.

Carroll, a sophomore from South Medford, went 8-of-16 from the floor with four 3-pointers. SOU (3-1 overall) led 61-59 before he drained one of those from the left wing with five minutes to go, and on the Raiders' next possession he squared up his defender from 25 feet and hit another.

After a pair of WJU free throws on the other end, Carroll cut to the hoop and laid in Ben DeSaulnier's dump-off from the post to make it 69-63, and the Raiders never looked back.

They got stellar performances from two more sophomores: forward Tate Hoffman, who had 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists, and point guard Aaron Borich, who sparked them off the bench with nine points, six assists and three steals. DeSaulnier chipped in 11 points and Tristen Holmes had nine points, five assists and five rebounds.

SOU weathered a cold-shooting start in which it missed 11 of its first 12 attempts from 3-point range. After going up 14-13 on a Carroll jumped six minutes into the game, the Raiders went the next seven-plus minutes without a field goal. They shot 16-of-26 in the second half, however, and wound up at 47 percent (27-of-57) for the game.

The Warriors (6-1), who led by as many as seven points in the first half, were led by Luis Medearis' 15 points and Tate DeLaVeaga's 14 in the backcourt. They experienced some shooting woes of their own, going 3-of-18 from downtown.

WJU's point total was the lowest for a Raider opponent in 20 games dating back to last season.

SOU will play another unbeaten NAIA Division I team at 3 p.m. Saturday in Montana State-Northern.
 
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