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Marquise Mosley action
Kyla McGuire
65
Winner Biola BIO 6-2,2-0 PacWest
64
Dominican (CA) DUC 0-8,0-2 PacWest
Winner
Biola BIO
6-2,2-0 PacWest
65
Final
64
Dominican (CA) DUC
0-8,0-2 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Biola BIO 29 36 65
Dominican (CA) DUC 34 30 64

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Mosley Game-Winner Keeps BU Perfect

Marquise Mosley scored on Biola's final possession to lead to 65-64 win.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. --- The best players know how to completely set aside emotions and do what they need to do to get the job done down the stretch. On an up-and-down night in the Bay Area Marquise Mosley proved himself as one of those types of players in lifting Biola to victory. 

The senior transfer had a whirlwind final 30 seconds of the game. He had a chance to tie things up with 15 seconds left when he was sent to the free-throw line with Biola trailing 65-64 in a game they'd trailed for virtually the entire time.

Mosley gathered himself, but then missed on the first free-throw chance of a one-and-one. Dominican picked up the rebound with 14 seconds left and things began to look bleak for a Biola team that still had to foul three more times just to send Dominican to the line.

Finally, after the third foul and with 12 ticks on the clock, Jaelen Ragsdale missed his first attempt from the charity stripe.

Mosley, despite the earlier setback, was completely focused and ready to attack right away with a chance to win the game. Michael Bagatourian snagged the defensive rebound after the miss at the line and got the ball quickly to Mosley in transition and the swift-moving point guard converted right away.

The Eagles took a 65-64 lead with :05.6 left on the game clock and now just needed one good possession of defense to secure the gritty PacWest Conference win. It was just the fifth time in the game that Biola took the led. Most of that was back-and-forth one-point leads in the final 10 minutes of the second half.

BU was able to hold the Penguins off the board in that final possession, sending its bench into a frenzy and completing the undefeated road trip with a 65-64 win.

Biola went down 9-2 really early on and found it tough to bounce back throughout a poor-shooting first half. The Eagles trailed by as many as 15 points in that first half but had tightened it to just a five-point differential with a Zanen Zeller bucket at the halftime buzzer. 

The Eagles took their first lead of the game at 35-34, scoring the first six points of the second half. Whitten Dominguez scored three of those first six second-half points and was very involved in the Eagles' offense early in the half, scoring nine of BU's first 16 points in the second stanza. He did not miss a single shot over that six-minute span.

Dominguez ended the game with 10 points as one of four Eagles to reach double-digits.

The other player to have a significant individual streak of scoring was Jesse Elrod. The big man was a big reason for the Biola win. Between the 10:12 point and 8:36 points in the second half, he scored nine points in a row for the Eagles. Like Dominguez, Elrod did not miss a shot in that stretch. When he was done with that run Biola held a promising 58-54 lead.

Things began to look less promising right away, though. After Elrod's final bucket in that run, Biola went from 8:36 to 1:50 without scoring a single point. Thankfully for Biola, its opponents went relatively cold during that same stretch and only capitalized to the point of a 61-58 lead (7-0 run).

Michael Bagatourian broke the cold stretch with a made three-pointer to tie the game. He scored a layup right after to put BU up 63-61 and sent the game into its final minute, which was detailed above.

Bagatourian had 12 points and four rebounds to play a key role down the stretch. Elrod ended the game as Biola's leading scorer with a season-high 16 points. He's scored 30 between his last two outings.

Mosley was the other Eagle to find double-figures. He had 11 total points, with the last two being the clear most important.

After going for almost 30 points last time out Alex Wright was held to a season-low two points on Saturday. But, the sophomore played 40 minutes of great defense and led the Eagles with seven rebounds. It's the fifth time this season that he's led the team in rebounds.

At the end of the game Biola had righted the ship in terms of its shooting. The Eagles shot just over 48 percent to finish with two more made field goals than Dominican. The Penguins stayed in it by making three more three-point shots, but the only score that mattered in the end was the 65-64 final.

Biola was out-rebounded (36-30) for just the third time this season, but they are now 2-1 in those games so it's not making too much of an impact. The Eagles have an overall rebounding margin of +5 this year.

Dominguez (10) and Solomon Ruddell (8) helped power the Biola bench to a 20-4 scoring advantage over the Dominican bench players. Ruddell is now an incredible 28-for-34 (.824) from the field this season. The current NCAA Division II leader in that category is shooting .826 with almost 50 made FG.

The win allows Biola to improve to 2-0 in PacWest Conference play. BU has six wins in a row to sit at 6-2 overall. The six-game winning streak is Biola's longest since 2016. Dominican falls to 0-8 overall and 0-2 in conference play. The Penguins are competing well though, losing both PWC game by just five points on average.

Next up for these Eagles is a home game against Hawaii Hilo (2-2; 1-1 PacWest) on Tuesday. Hilo lost 96-85 on Saturday to PacWest Conference favorites Concordia Irvine.
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