SHAWNEE, Okla. — Jon West scored a career-high 22 points and four players were in double figures for No. 12 Southern Nazarene in a 105-93 loss to Oklahoma Baptist, Saturday night, inside the Noble Complex.
West missed one shot the entire night for the Crimson Storm (17-4, 10-3 SAC), going 8-for-9 from the field and he was 5-for-7 from the line. He also just missed a double-double with nine rebounds. Jeremy Lightfoot scored a season-high 19 points as he was 6-of-11 from the floor and 7-for-8 from the charity stripe. The senior center also pulled down six rebounds. Both C.J. Henry and Xavier Alexander had 16 points as Alexander was just a rebound short of a double-double with nine while Henry had six rebounds.
SNU shot over 50 percent from the field going 33-for-64, but OBU was also over the 50 percent mark firing 33-for-58. The big difference was from beyond the arc where OBU had a big advantage. The Bison (18-4, 12-2 SAC) were 8-for-16 from downtown while the Storm struggled from beyond the arc hitting just 4-of-12.
Southern Nazarene won the battle of the boards pulling down 40 rebounds compared to OBU's 32, but the Storm turned the ball over 20 times and forced just 14.
OBU never trailed the entire game and every time SNU had a run, the Bison started to run away. The first came just minutes into the game when the Bison took a 22-9 lead and took their biggest lead of the half at 29-15 with 11:14 left in the first half.
The Storm then got six points from Lightfoot in a 9-0 run as SNU closed it to 29-24 and then were within four at 33-29 on a Henry 3-pointer, but OBU pushed it back out to 14 twice more before taking a 59-46 lead at the half.
OBU took their biggest lead of the game at 77-59 with 10:59 to play, but SNU made one final run to cut it to 77-68 and were down 79-70 with 6:32 remaining, but that was as close as the Storm came.
OBU's Maurice Foster scored a game-high 35 points as he one was of five Bison to score in double-figures.
SNU will now go on another four-game home stand that starts Monday at 8 p.m. against USAO.
