Box Score

BETHANY — Spud Harbour scored 19 second half points as No. 22 Evangel upset No. 2 Southern Nazarene, 72-55, Friday night inside the Sawyer Center.

Shooting woes and foul trouble plagued the Crimson Storm (3-1) all night as SNU shot just 30.3 percent (20-66) from the field and 4-for-10 from 3-point range. The Storm also struggled at the free-throw line hitting just 11 of there 27 attempts. It was the first time this season SNU didn't shoot over 40 percent from the field.

SNU was also without starting guard #C.J. Henry# who was healing from a previous injury.

Neither team found the bottom of the basket much in the first half as the Crusaders (2-1) shot just 33.3 percent (8-24) in the first half while SNU shot 28.1 percent (9-23) in the first 20 minutes. Evangel though began to find its stroke in the second half firing 15-for-24 from the field, but SNU still had trouble putting points on the board in the second half.

Xavier Alexander led the way for SNU with 15 points while Jon West and Milos Milosevic each added eight. West added seven rebounds while Horace McGloster had a team-high seven. #A.J. Thomas# also scored seven points and dished out four assists.

Harbour came into the game averaging 23.5 points a game, but scored just one point in the first half. Add that on top of an 11-2 run by SNU to take a 29-24 lead at the half and momentum was swinging towards the Crimson Storm's way.

That momentum lasted about all of about 30 seconds as Evangel scored the first seven points of the second half and used a 18-5 run, capped by a Chad Gillaspy dunk, to climb out to a 42-34 lead with 12:17 left. SNU answered with a 13-7 run capped by a Milosevic bucket in the paint to cut it to 49-47 with 7:02 left, but the Crusaders drove home the nail by ending the game on a 23-8 run to give the Storm their first loss of the year.

Harbour finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds. He went 6-for-9 from the field in the second half hit 6-of-8 from the free throw line.