Box Score
DeWayne Hall and the McMurry men's basketball team caught stride late in the second half and kept its narrow playoff hopes alive with a 71-54 win over Schreiner at Kimbrell Arena Thursday night. Hall scored 12 of his 17 points on four 3-pointers in the second half and the team shot 57.1 percent from beyond the arc in the second half to surge past the Mountaineers.
Leading just 47-41 with 9:14 remaining, Glenn Brown started the charge with a bank-in 3-pointer to put McMurry up nine. Hall then canned two straight 3-pointers on assists from Brown and Casey Jones followed with two consecutive buckets giving McMurry five-straight made field goals and McMurry took a 60-43 lead with 7:04. The quick 13-2 run happened in just 2:10 backing the Mountaineers into a corner.
Schreiner could never recover and McMurry held the Mountaineers to 54 points, which was a season-low for McMurry's defense. Early in the game, Schreiner looked to be in control as McMurry shot just 2 of 13 to start and fell behind 15-6.
However, McMurry closed the gap quickly and took a 19-17 lead on a jumper from Emile Brown with 7:08 remaining and McMurry never looked back. Not be overshadowed by Hall, freshman Curtis Davis led all scorers with 19 points off the bench.
He energized the crowd with a tip dunk to close the first half that put McMurry up six points, 32-26. Davis was 8 of 12 from the floor, hit 2 of 3 from long range and tied for the team high with eight rebounds. Jones was also in double figures with 12 points.
Chris Beck had eight boards to accompany six points and Robert Moreno had seven assists while Glenn Brown had a season-high six assists.
Schreiner's Trent Noack had 13 points off the bench to lead the Mountaineers in the losing effort. McMurry completed the season sweep of the Mountaineers and stayed alive in the ASC postseason race. Entering Thursday night's game McMurry needed to win all four games while Howard Payne needed to lose all four. Thursday night HPU fell to Mary Hardin-Baylor 71-68.
Saturday McMurry will play host to Texas Lutheran who has just two wins on the season, but is playing better basketball late in the year. McMurry will have to beat the Bulldogs and will count on Concordia-Texas to defeat Howard Payne to stay alive for the postseason. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.
