DURANT, Okla. — The winning streak moved to three in-a-row and a perfect 5-0 in Great American Conference play for Southern Nazarene with a 72-67 win Wednesday night at Southeastern Oklahoma State.
 
The Crimson Storm (7-1, 5-0 GAC) got a career-high 25 points from Noah Starkey who went 11-for-19 from the field. He also added four rebounds, two blocks and two assists. Quaylon Newton also had a pair of career-highs with 18 points and 11 rebounds for his first career double-double. He was 7-for-10 from the field and added four blocks, which is one off his career-high.
 
Micah Speight and Jhonathan Dunn combined for 21 points as Speight had 11 and Dunn had 10. Speight also had six rebounds while Dunn had seven.
 
SNU shot 50.9 percent from the field, but struggled from beyond the arc at just 2-for-9. The Storm were 0-for-3 from deep in the second half. The Crimson Storm did go 16-for-21 at the line and turned it over just 12 times. Southern Nazarene dominated the paint with 44 points in the lane compared to just 24 from the Savage Storm.
 
Neither team led by more than six in the first half and neither the biggest leads in half lasted for long. SNU had it's biggest lead of the half at 7-2, before a 21-10 run by the Savage Storm put them up 23-17 with 7:40 left for their biggest lead. The two traded two more leads before the Crimson Storm took a 38-37 lead to the half on a last-second jumper by Zach Johnson.
 
The two traded 10 more leads as SNU took the lead for good on a 12-5 run capped by a Dunn layup that gave the Crimson Storm 71-65 lead, its largest of the night with 39 seconds to play. SNU held off Southeastern from there to get the win.