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LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Senior guard Danny Campbell scored 17 points and led an early three-point barrage which proved to be the key to the game as Biola kept its perfect start alive with an 73-61 win over the University of Calgary on Tuesday night at Chase Gymnasium.

The Eagles improve to 12-0 on the year and are now 7-0 at home while dropping the Dinos, the No. 4-ranked team in Canada, to 12-3 on the season.

Campbell led all scorers with 17 points--13 in the pivotal first half. He was 7-of-11 from the field including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. Campbell scored the first six points of the game on back-to-back three-pointers, then added his third at the 11:30 mark to cap a game-opening 17-4 run by the Eagles. All in all, Campbell scored 11 of Biola's first 17 points.

The opening run proved to be huge for the Eagles, who took advantage of a 1-of-13 shooting start by the Dinos to stake the early lead. The two teams played pretty even the rest of the half with Biola taking a 36-23 lead to the locker room.

Calgary managed to shoot just 28 percent in the first half, though they hit 8-of-19 shots (42 percent) after the opening struggles. Biola, on the other hand hit 50 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes.

In the second half, the Dinos closed the gap to 10 on four different occasions, the last coming thanks to a pair of free throws by Dustin Redding which made it 45-35 with 14:24 to play. But the Eagles used a 10-2 run over the next five minutes to stretch the lead to 18 and never looked back. Biola held a 22-point lead with 4:37 to play before Calgary closed the gap in garbage time.

Biola had two other players in double-figures beside Campbell. Senior forward Rocky Hampton scored 12 points and added six rebounds and two blocked shots while senior guard Marlon King also contributed 12 points and had seven assists and six steals.

After shooting 50 percent in the first half, Biola shot 53 percent in the second to finish the game with a 51.7 percent shooting night for the third-straight game and sixth time this season.

The Eagles return to action on Saturday (Jan. 2), hosting the University of Redlands in the final non-conference game on the schedule. The game is slated for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off at Chase Gymnasium.