The Campbell men's basketball team hit 10 three-pointers en route to the 66-53 win over Presbyterian College in Big South action Tuesday night at Gore Arena in Buies Creek, N.C.
The Blue Hose fall to 7-17 overall and 3-8 in the Big South, while the Camels improve to 9-15, 3-8. PC is home next as it hosts Liberty Friday, Feb. 6, in a 7 p.m., contest. Campbell is at Gardner-Webb the same date and time.
The Camels hit six three-pointers in the second half and finished the night 10-of-25, compared to the Blue Hose, who were just two-of six, both of them coming in the first. PC shot 48.8% from the field and pulled down 20 rebounds, while turning the ball over 13 times. Campbell shot 47.2% from the field and led in rebounds with 31.
Janeil Jenkins recorded three of his career-high 11 points of the night just 21 seconds in to give PC the first bucket of the game. The Blue Hose would build a 7-4 lead as Campbell was just one-of-six the first five minutes of play.
After Jordan Downing, who finished with 10 points, hit a three-pointer at the 14:22 mark to give PC a 10-6 lead, Reco McCarter, who ended the night with 12 points, hit back to back baskets to tie the game at 10-10, 12:01 left on the clock in the first half.
DeSean Murray broke the tie at 10:55 with a dunk, while Ruben Arroyo-Felix at a put-back a minute later, to give PC another four-point lead, 14-10.
The Blue Hose held a four-point lead on several occasions in the first half but could not seem to break away. With PC leading 19-15, with 6:58 to go before the break, the Camels used two three-pointers by Andrew Ryan, in a 10-2 run, to take their first lead of the game and extend it to 25-21, 3:49 remaining.
Campbell scored the game's next five of seven points to head into the locker room with the 30-23 lead.
Ryan scored his third of five three-pointers in the game with 15:23 left to give the Camels their largest lead of the game, 37-27. Five unanswered points by PC, including three from Murray, who ended the night with a team-leading 17 points, quickly cut Campbell's lead to just five, 37-35, 13:12 to go.
Neither team scored the next several minutes, with Jaron Withers finally breaking the drought at the 10:32 mark with his first basket of the night. Jenkins added a basket to cut the lead to four before Ryan hit his second three to take the lead to six, 42-36, 9:24 remaining.
PC cut the lead to five again, 49-45, with 6:08 on the clock, but another three by Ryan, who ended up with a team-leading 21 points, and a jumper by D.J. Mason, who ended with 13 points, gave the Camels a 10-point lead for the second time.
The Blue Hose chipped away on several occasions down the stretch, but the Camels seemed to have an answer for every point, including hitting back to back three-pointers by Moyer, who finished with 14 points, to take their largest lead of the game, 64-48, 1:34 remaining. Murray hit an impressive dunk off an inbounds steal with under a minute to go to cut the lead to 11, but it was Campbell at the end with the 66-53 win.
