Game Summary

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Twenty-nine points was good enough for the first 20 minutes of Wednesday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game.

Twenty-nine points in the second half, however, wasn't nearly enough as the Saint Mary's University men's basketball team saw its two-game winning streak come to a screeching halt with a 70-58 loss to Concordia.

The Cardinals broke free from the Cobbers late in the first half, holding a nine-point, 25-16 advantage with less than five minutes remaining, but the Cobbers came storming back, using a 13-4 half-ending run to knot the game at 29-29 at the intermission.

SMU, which hit 10 of 25 shots in the first half, nearly duplicated that effort in the second half, knocking down 10 more field goals on 23 shots en route to their second straight 29-point effort. Concordia, however, took advantage of a 15-6 advantage in free throws made in netting 41 points in the game's final 20 minutes to seal the win.

Michael Batterman (Fond du Lac, Wis.) led the way for SMU (2-1 MIAC, 3-3), scoring 12 points, while John Scurlock (Chicago, Ill.) and Fiore Buccieri (Riverside, Ill.) also finished in double figures, scoring 11 and 10 points, respectively. Luke Linz and Mark Dixon each scored 18 points for the Cobbers, and combined with Keith Eckhoff (13 points) and Jason Miller (11 points) to score 60 of Concordia's 70 points.