SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --- Westmont College used an 11-2 second half run to break a tie game and out-rebounded California Baptist University, 37-26, getting 17 offensive rebounds to key a 77-72 GSAC win over the Lancers Thursday night.
The loss drops the Lancers to 12-11 overall, 6-8 GSAC. It is just their third setback in the past eight games.
The Warriors improve to 16-6, 8-5.
Nick Paulson led the Lancers with 12 points, getting seven of them from the line. Kevin Deeb and Luke Evans each tallied 11 points. Deeb hit 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. Brannon Bradley, Ivan Patterson and Jerome Lowe all chipped in with eight points.
Westmont's Landon Boucher led all players with 19 points, hitting five 3-pointers. Preston Branson had 13 points, and Nikko Brooks tallied 11 points.
The Lancers led 33-31 at halftime, and the teams traded leads seven times in the first seven minutes of the second half. Paulson tied it at 46-46 with a free throw with 12:54 left when the Warriors broke the tie and took control. Dan Rasp hit back-to-back buckets and Anthony Lipold hit a baseline jumper to give the Warriors a 57-49 lead with 8:57 remaining.
Lowe buried a trey from the right corner to get the Lancers within 61-57, but the Warriors scored six straight, four of which came after Blake Bender offensive rebounds and took their largest lead of the game, 67-57, with 3:41 left. The Lancers couldn't get closer than five points when Patterson got a steal and dunk with 69-64 with 1:05 left. Branson made a lay-up on the ensuing possession and the Warriors made all four of their free throws in the final 30 seconds.
The Lancers' largest lead was 42-38 with 14:51 left on a layup by Bradley
The Lancers trailed 24-15 with 7:20 left in the first half when Evans scored back-to-back buckets and Aleksander Milovic buried a trey to ignite a 13-3 run. It was capped by a pair of free throws from Paulson that gave the Lancers their first lead since early in the game, 28-27, with 3:09 left. The lead changed hands four more times, the last one coming on a Lowe trey at the buzzer that gave the Lancers a 33-31 halftime lead.
All nine Lancers that played scored in the first, and the Lancers, who average a GSAC-worst 17.4 turnovers, committed just four in the first 20 minutes and finished the game with 11, their lowest total since Nov. 30, a span of 16 games.
Both teams shot 49 percent from the field and made 14 free throws apiece. The Lancers were 8-for-16 from downtown, while Westmont was 7-for-17 from beyond the arc. The difference in the game came on the glass.
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