BETHANY, Okla. — After falling in a tight, exciting game last year to Oklahoma Christian, Southern Nazarene took the air of the wings Tuesday night early in an 81-60 win inside the Sawyer Center.
 
Five players scored in double figures as C.J. White led the way with 14 points and eight rebounds as he was 5-for-11 from the field and 4-for-5 at the line. Noah Starkey and Deshon Portley each had 12 points. Starkey was just a rebound short of a double-double with nine while Portley had six rebounds and three assists. LB Willis had 11 points, four rebounds and three assists while Micah Speight had a career-high 10 points.
 
SNU opened the game on a 12-2 run and hit the gas from there. After OC cut it to 12-4, Qualyon Newton sparked a 17-6 run as the Storm took a 29-10 lead with 7:53 left in the first. SNU carried a 45-24 lead into the break before taking their biggest lead of the game with 10:08 to play at 66-35 on a Portley 3-pointer.
 
The Eagles went on a 12-0 run to cut it to 66-47 with 7:21 remaining, but that was as close as the Eagles came the rest of the way.
 
The Storm shot 44.1 percent from the field and hit seven 3-pointers. SNU also held OC to just 34.1 percent shooting from the field and gave up just two 3-pointers from the Eagles. The Storm had 16 second-chance points on 16 offensive rebounds. The Storm out rebounded OC 41-31 and scored 26 points off of 23 Eagles' turnovers.