Box Score
HAMMOND – Jeremy Campbell scored a team-high 14 points, including four free throws in the final seven seconds as Southeastern Louisiana rallied from a 10-point deficit and defeated Northwestern State, 66-61, in a Southland Conference game Saturday at the University Center.
Roosevelt Johnson added 13 points while
Elgin Bailey scored 12, including a key three-point play with 1:12 left, as Southeastern (9-14, 3-8 SLC) snapped a three-game losing streak and avoided its first season sweep by Northwestern State (14-11, 7-4 SLC) since the 2006-07 campaign.
Southeastern jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first 2:15 as
Daron Populist nailed a jumper in the lane and
Onochie Ochie hit the first of his two 3-pointers in the game. The Lions added a free throw by
DeShawn Patterson at the 14:05 mark before Northwestern State scored its first points of the game with Tyler Washington hit a short jumper at the 13:51 mark.
That opened a 12-4 run for Northwestern State as James Hulbin scored eight straight points on back-to-back 3-pointers and an alley oop dunk to give the Demons their first lead of the game at 12-10. Northwestern State kept up the pressure as it built a 20-12 lead on a three-point play by Shamir Davis before eventually upping its lead to 27-17 when Louis Ellis scored on a layup with 4:04 remaining in the opening half.
Southeastern trimmed the deficit to 29-26 at halftime before outscoring the Demons, 40-32, in the final 20 minutes. After Northwestern State went 12-for-26 (46.2 percent) in the first half, the Lions held the Demons to 9-for-33 (27.3 percent) in the final 20 minutes and 2-for-16 (12.5 percent) from behind the 3-point line.
Both teams battled through four ties and seven lead changes in the second half with the Lions taking the lead for good, 53-51, when Campbell drove the lane and scored on a layup.
Northwestern State got as close as 57-56 when William Mosley hit the first of two free throws, but Bailey scored the Lions' next five points, including powering past Mosley for a basket in the lane that gave Southeastern a 62-57 lead with 1:12 left.
Patterson dished out five assists to increase his career total to 357 and tying him with former Lion Troy Green for second-place tie in school history. The senior, who scored five points in 28 minutes off the bench, added three steals to increase his total to 165 – four shy of Hank Washington's school-record of 169 set from 1990-93.
Bailey grabbed a team-high nine rebounds for Southeastern, which used its 12th different starting lineup of the season and defeated Northwestern State for the fourth consecutive time in the University Center and the seventh time in the last eight meetings between the in-state rivals.
Ellis led Northwestern State with a game-high 17 points while Mosley scored 11 and Hulbin 10. Mosley, who narrowly missed a double-double with a team-high nine rebounds, added six blocks in the contest to increase his career total to 440 – one shy of tying former Connecticut star and current New Orleans Hornet Emeka Okafor for 10th place in NCAA history.
Southeastern will return to action on Wednesday when it travels to Beaumont, Texas to face Lamar in a 7 p.m. contest at the Montagne Center.
NORTHWESTERN STATE (14-11, 7-4 SLC)
Ellis 6-13 2-2 17; Mosley 3-5 5-7 11; Hulbin 3-7 2-2 10; Davis 4-16 1-2 9; Stewart 2-3 0-0 4; Robinson 0-2 3-4 3; Roberson 1-4 0-0 3; Brisco 1-3 0-0 2; Washington 1-6 0-0 2; Frazier 0-0 0-0 0; Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-59 13-17 61.
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA (9-14, 3-8 SLC)
Campbell 4-10 6-6 14; Johnson 5-15 3-4 13; Bailey 5-14 2-2 12; Populist 3-7 1-2 7; Ochie 2-4 0-0 6; Nelson 2-4 0-1 5; Patterson 1-4 3-6 5; Ross 2-3 0-0 4; Petrovcic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-61 15-21 66.
Halftime – Northwestern State 29, SLU 26. 3-point goals - Northwestern State 6-23 (Ellis 3-8; Hulbin 2-5; Roberson 1-3; Stewart 0-1; Washington 0-3; Davis 0-3), SLU 3-9 (Ochie 2-2; Nelson 1-3; Populist 0-2; Campbell 0-2). Fouled out - None. Rebounds - Northwestern State 39 (Mosley 9), SLU 39 (Bailey 9). Assists - Northwestern State 8 (Stewart 2), SLU 13 (Patterson 5). Total fouls - Northwestern State 19, SLU 18. Technical fouls - None. A – 873.
