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| January 11, 2007 BYUH Falls to Chaminade
Honolulu, HI-The Brigham Young University Hawaii men's basketball team suffered their first conference loss tonight, falling to Chaminade, 83-69, to fall to 11-5 overall and 3-1 in the Pacific West Conference. The Seasiders took a brief, one-point lead with a 7-0 run to open the second half, but Chaminade answered with eight straight points and could get no closer than three the rest of the way. The Seasiders fell behind midway through the first half and went into the locker room with a 37-31 deficit. Danny Jackson came off the bench to keep BYU-Hawaii in the game with 13 first half points while the Seasiders' leading scorer, Lucas Alves, was struggling and finishing the half scoreless. After their brief lead in the second half, the Seasiders fell behind by 12 points, at 62-50, before rallying to cut the deficit to 67-64 with under five minutes to play. However, the Silverswords, who out-shot the Seasiders 62 percent to 43 percent, pulled away and finished by scoring the game's final eight points for the final margin. Alves found his shot in the second half to lead BYU-Hawaii in scoring with 18 points. Jackson finished with 13 on 5-7 shooting and Wu Tai-hao tallied 11 for the Seasiders. Corey Nielson and Eric Boyce each scored seven points for BYU-Hawaii. Paul Peterson dished out six assists and snatched five steals for BYU-Hawaii and Jermaine Odjegba led the Seasiders with five rebounds. Stewart Kussler led Chaminade with 21 points and Zack Whiting scored 20 and added ten assists as the Silverswords improved to 2-1 in the PacWest and 10-5 overall. Marko Kolaric had 17 points and 11 rebounds for Chaminade. BYU-Hawaii will face Chaminade again on Saturday in Honolulu at 2:30 pm HST. |
