Box Score Feb. 6, 2010
Box Score
Anthony Miles hit a jumper with 40.0 seconds left to give Lamar a lead and Justin Nabors made a pair of free throws to lift the Cardinals to a 49-46 come-from-behind win over Stephen F. Austin at the Montagne Center Saturday night.
Lamar (13-11, 5-4 Southland) won its third-straight game and snapped a four-game losing skid against the Lumberjacks. Nabors led the Cardinals with 12 points and 11 rebounds to post his 12th double-double of the season. He was 3-for-4 from the field and 6-of-8 at the free throw line. Coy Custer added eight points and six boards off the bench.
The Cardinals shot 36 percent in the game and were 19-for-26 at the charity stripe. LU also secured a 37-22 edge on the glass and a 20-10 scoring margin in the paint.
SFA (16-6, 6-3) was paced by Walt Harris' 18 points which included three 3-pointers and a 5-for-5 performance at the line. Jereal Scott had 14 on 7-of-9 shooting. The Lumberjacks shot 37 percent and made all seven free throws.
SFA took its largest lead of the night at 42-36 following three Harris freebies. Donley Minor answered with a 3-pointer in the corner before a Scott bucket pushed the margin back to five points. Another triple by Minor and a jumper in the lane from Miles - his first hoops of the game - tied the contest at 44-44 with 2:02 left.
Harris answered with a pair of free throws before Custer grabbed an offensive rebound for LU and made one of two at the line to cut the SFA lead to 46-45. Custer corralled the ball on the ensuing SFA possession following a miss by Eric Bell before Lamar called a time out to set up the play that game it the lead for good.
SFA had two open looks to tie the game in the final 12 seconds but Harris three from the wing and a shot by Eric Bell both caromed off the rim.
The back-and-forth, grind-it-out game had 10 ties and 14 lead changes with the largest margin by either squad being six points by SFA with 4:27 to play in the game.
Lamar led 17-16 at the half with neither team holding more than a two-point advantage in the opening frame.
The 49 points scored in victory mark the fewest by a Cardinal squad since Feb. 26, 1990, when LU defeated McNeese State 49-48.
Lamar will step out of league play and host Lyon College on Tuesday night at 7:05 p.m. before traveling to Texas State on Saturday afternoon.
