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Levi Auble dunks the ball
Adam Washington
79
Winner Cal St. L.A. CSULA 2-0
61
Biola BU-MBB 1-1
Winner
Cal St. L.A. CSULA
2-0
79
Final
61
Biola BU-MBB
1-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Cal St. L.A. CSULA 34 45 79
Biola BU-MBB 25 36 61

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

A Slight Setback

Biola falls to CSULA in game two of the 2018-19 basketball season.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola Men's Basketball couldn't quite replicate its strong second half performance from Friday's win on Saturday, as the Eagles' shot went cold in half two in a 79-61 loss to CSU Los Angeles.

The Eagles made seven of their last nine shots in the game, but the damage was already done before they hit that hot streak, and they could not dig themselves all the way out of a hole that was as deep as a 23-point deficit.

Prior to that hot stretch, Biola had shot just 3-for-15 to start that half. That cold stretch, paired with a handful of turnovers and a negative margin in the rebounding column allowed the Golden Eagles to turn what was a 34-25 halftime lead into a 64-41 advantage with eight minutes to play.

The encouraging sign is that a lot of the late damage was done by Biola's second unit. The Eagles' bench scored 17 points tonight, which is a 12-point improvement from what non-starters managed in the season opener.

The biggest contributor from off the bench (at least in terms of scoring) was Christian Carroll. He came on late, late, late in the second half and made both of the shots he took (both from three) and ended up with six points, a rebound and an assist.

Levi Auble had the most notable presence for BU off the bench, playing in 10 minutes, scoring four points on 50 percent shooting and adding two rebounds, two assists and a key steal.

He turned his one steal into a Biola breakaway and dunked the ball to cap a nine-point Biola run that cut the CSULA lead to 14 with just under five minutes to play. That run had the Eagles thinking they may have a chance to bring it all the way back.

However, a perfectly called timeout by CSULA took away Biola's momentum as the Golden Eagles were able to come back out and score the next five points to distance the game once again.

The cold shooting late in the first and through most of the second half, compounded by poor free throw shooting late in the second half is what did the Eagles in. But there's still some really good, good spots about the night.

One of those is Alex Talma recording his second double-double in as many tries. He led the team with 15 points and 11 rebounds. The big man had to get most of his scoring done at the free throw line as his hook shot just wasn't falling with its usual regularity; he shot just 3-for-10.

Michael Bagatourian had a very strong start, scoring 11 points for the Eagles in the first half, but he could only manage one point in a second half where he was limited to just seven minutes on the floor.

The most notable statistic of the night was the nine blocks put up by the Eagles. That's just two off the school record and is the most blocks in a single game since they managed nine in a win over Hope International in February 2016.

Steve Herve had the most (3) and the most emphatic blocks of the night, sending two balls deep into the crowd to keep CSULA from scoring in the paint on a few of their many drives to the hoop.

CSULA shot 41 percent from the floor and made nine three-pointers. They're a deep team, where no one player had more than 26 minutes on the floor and the bench contributed 35 of their nearly 80 points.

Biola falls to 1-1 with the loss, while the Golden Eagles remain undefeated at 2-0. The Eagles will have a shot at redemption at Chase Gym this coming Tuesday night, when they host a West Coast Baptist team that they're 5-0 against all-time. Biola's outscored WCBC 453-296 in their previous five meetings, winning by an average margin of 31 points.

 
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