MANSFIELD, Pa. - Senior
Juwan Mullen scored a career-high 23 points, but host Mansfield closed the game with a 7-to-3 run to break a 62-62 tie en route to a 69-65 victory in PSAC Easter Division action Wednesday night inside Decker Gymnasium.
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Dikemba Amugo was 7-of-8 from the field and registered career highs' with 14 points and nine rebounds for the Wolves (2-15, 1-13 PSAC E).
Cheyney led 58-57 following a layup from Mullen with 5:34 to play, Gerasimos Koutoufas answered with a three-pointer to give the lead back to Mansfield.
Michael Oyefusi knotted the contest at 60-60 with 4:56 remaining with a layup, the Mounties regained the advantage, but Mullen scored again and the game was tied at 62-62 with 3:50 left to play.
Brad Williams made a layup, to put Mansfield ahead for good, and his two free-throws pushed the lead to four at 66-62.
Amugo cut the lead down to two with 1:53 to play, Matt Tamanosky made it a four-point contest with a layup.
Mullen's free-throw brought the Wolves within three at 68-65, but neither team would score again until a free-throw by Williams with six seconds remaining provided the final margin.
Eugene Lett led Cheyney with four assists and added eight points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field including connecting on both of his three-point attempts.
Mullen finished 10-of-17 from the field in surpassing his career best of 22 points that he had registered four times during the season.
Tamanosky led the Mountaineers (4-15, 2-12 PSAC E) with 21 points, Ian Vasquez added 16 points.
Mansfield was 8-of-21 from three-point range and 15-of26 from the free-throw line.
The Wolves went 3-of-12 from beyond the arc and only connected on 8-of-15 from the charity stripe.
Cheyney is off until it travels to Millersville on February 3 at 7:30 p.m. for another PSAC East battle to open the second half the Eastern Division season.