The Missouri Southern men's basketball team ran into a hot-shooting Mid-America Christian team tonight and MACU led for all but 45 seconds as the Lions fell 84-78 in the finale of the Freeman Sports Medicine/Chris Tucker Memorial Classic.
Southern (2-3) was led offensively by Taevaunn Prince who scored 19 points on 4-9 shooting and 11-14 from the free-throw line. He added six rebounds. Cameron Cornelius scored 15 points, while Greg Renfroe added 14 and pulled down eight boards, going 7-9 from the field. Charlie Brown scored ten, while Blaine Miller andAustin Wright added nine each.
MACU (5-1) shot 57 percent from the field and 73 percent from long-range, led by 21 points from Semar Farris.
The Evangels scored the first six points of the game and led by ten (15-5) at the 14 minute mark. Southern cut the lead to one (18-17) after a 10-0 run was capped off by a three from Brown with just under ten minutes to go in the half.
MACU pushed its lead back up to 16 (42-26) with 3:21 to go and a dunk from Renfroe as the half expired gave the Evangels a 44-36 lead at the break.
The Lions got the lead down to two twice, the last being 56-54 after a dunk from Renfroe with 14:42 left to go in the game. The Evangels' lead reached 12 (73-61) with just over five to play and the Lions got to within six on multiple occasions, but couldn't get any closer.
Southern shot 47 percent from the field and 83 percent from the free-throw line. The Lions had a 16-11 advantage on the offensive boards and had a 17-10 advantage in second-chance points. The Southern bench outscored MACU 33-19.
The Lions will be back in action on Tuesday evening when Southern plays host to Benedictine. Tipoff from Robert Corn Court inside the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center is slated for 7:30 pm.
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