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UTEP
UTEP Knocks Off `Jacks
12/21/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 21, 2010
EL PASO, Texas - Jereal Scott pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds and led the team with 14 points but was the only Lumberjack to reach double figures as UTEP ended Stephen F. Austin's three-game win streak with a 61-52 defeat Monday in the Don Haskins Center.
The Lumberjacks (7-3) posted their second-worst shooting percentage (.382) of the year and committed a season-high 16 turnovers. SFA put the Miners (9-2) at the foul line 32 times, the second-most attempts by a Lumberjack opponent this year.
Randy Culpepper scored a game-high 18 points to lead UTEP to its sixth straight win. He was held without a 3-point basket a game after hitting nine against Texas Tech, but got to the rim several times in the second period, leading an effort that saw the Miners outscore SFA, 12-0, in fast-break points.
UTEP was cold offensively to open the game, and SFA led as late as the 6:12 mark. But the `Jacks had only one basket - a tip-in by Scott - in the final 4:36, and the Miners went to halftime with a 23-17 lead, their largest of the game to that point.
But after a 33-percent effort in the first period, UTEP caught fire in the second half, shooting 60 percent from the field and going 12-for-15 from the foul stripe. The Miners led by as many as 18 before some late 3-point shooting by the `Jacks brought the final margin back into single digits.
Eddie Williams scored eight points - all in the second period - and Antonio Bostic and Amos Olatayo came off the bench for six points apiece. Jordan Glynn added five points, and Mark Gomillia and Denzel Barnes had four each. Barnes played just three minutes in the first half after picking up two quick fouls and fouled out with five minutes to go in the second.
The Lumberjacks will have a nine-day break for Christmas before resuming play on Dec. 29 with a home game against ULM. The contest against the Warhawks is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. from Johnson Coliseum.
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