Men's Basketball

January 13, 2007

Tigers Hold off Pirates for SCAC Victory

San Antonio - Trinity's men's basketball team scored a 62-53 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win over Southwestern University on Saturday night.

Trinity (8-7, 3-2) led 31-22 at the half, and led by as many as 13 points in the opening minutes of the second period.  Southwestern, though, would not go down without a fight.

The close game was no surprise in this SCAC series.  Including tonight's game, 17 of the past 20 meetings in this series have been decided by less than 10 points.  Trinity now leads the series with a 26-10 record since the 1984-85 season.

With the Tigers leading 37-24, Southwestern made its best run of the night (15-3) to cut the lead to just one point with 11:02 remaining.  Trinity answered back, though, scoring nine unanswered points to push the lead back to double digits.  The Pirates got to within seven a couple of minutes later, but the visitors would get no closer in this one.

Charles Houston had an outstanding game for Trinity, leading all players with 25 points and 10 rebounds.  Houston also had three steals and connected on 8-12 from the field.  He hit 9-13 from the foul line as well, including 5-6 from the line in the final two minutes.

B.J. Moon and Jonathan Lewis chipped in with eight points each for the Tigers, and Lewis also grabbed five rebounds in the game.

Matt Caplan led Southwestern with 12 points and seven boards, while Ben Schleif added 11 points off the bench for the Pirates.  Casey Gorder finished with eight points and seven rebounds.

Trinity will travel to DePauw and Centre next weekend for two key SCAC games.  The games will be part of two doubleheaders with the women's team and will start at 8:00 p.m.