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LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Senior forward Rocky Hampton scored 16 of his team-high 18 points in the second half to lead No. 5 Biola to a 74-63 win in a GSAC game on Tuesday night at Chase Gymnasium.

With the win, the Eagles remain perfect on the season at 7-0 and improve to 3-0 in conference play. The Sea Lions drop to 1-6 on the heels of their sixth-straight loss and fall to 0-3 in GSAC.

Hampton was 8-of-10 in the second half, scoring 16 points and adding two rebounds, two blocks, two steals and an assist in just 15 minutes. He would finish the game with four locks and five rebounds. Nate Rakestraw, Andrew Schroeder and Marlon King each added 12 points for Biola.

The Eagles got off to a quick start in the game opening up a 12-2 lead just over five minutes into the contest. Biola still led by 10 at 19-9 on a fastbreak layup by Rakestraw with exactly 10:00 to go in the half before the Sea Lions rattled off seven-straight points to close the gap to three at 19-16. Point Loma would hang close over the course of the final 10 minutes and headed to the half down just one after Rhett Beal converted a three-point play with five seconds left.

In the second half, Biola quickly stretched the lead to five on jumpers by Josh Miller and Rakestraw, but saw the lead quickly disappear. The Sea Lions would tie the score at 40-40 just over two minutes into the half on back-to-back three pointers, the first by Nate Van Weelden and the second by Greg Murray. Point Loma would take its first lead of the game just a few minutes later and stretched it to three at 49-46 on a deep three by Murray. It was the fourth three-pointer of the half for the Sea Lions, who hit nine of their first 11 shots from beyond the arc.

However, Biola quickly woke up from its malaise, rattling off a 14-0 run over the next four minutes capped by a three-pointer by Rakestraw which made it a 60-49 game with 9:41. The Eagles would extend the lead to as many as 14 before closing out the game with an 11-point advantage.

Murray led the Sea Lions with 20 points, hitting 6-of-10 from the floor including 5-of-7 from beyond the arc. Point Loma finished by connecting on 11-of-16 shots from three-point range and shot 51.2 percent from the field overall.

The Eagles shot 52.5 percent from the field and hit just 33.3 percent from beyond the arc. However, Biola was able to stay in the contest by forcing 23 PLNU turnovers, converting them into 40 points on the offensive end. The Eagles, on the other hand, committed just 12 turnovers.

Schroeder scored 12 points, reaching double-figures for the fifth time in seven games, and added nine rebounds. King and Rakestraw combined for 11 steals and five assists in addition to their 12 points each.

Biola returns to action on Thursday, hosting crosstown foe Whittier College in a non-conference game beginning at 7:00 p.m. at Chase Gymnasium.