Box Score

Postgame Interview with Ron Cottrell

HOUSTON – Houston Baptist senior guard Marcus Davis buried a 3-pointer to tie the game with three seconds remaining in regulation, but Pepperdine held off the Huskies in overtime, 57-53, in non-conference basketball Tuesday night at Sharp Gym.
 
Senior forward Art Bernardi and sophomore guard Tyler Russell led the Huskies (3-2) with 14 points each. Bernardi shot 6-of-17 from the field, while Russell went 5-of-14 and knocked down his only 3-point attempt. Freshman forward Dauson Womack led HBU on the glass, pulling down a career-high 15 rebounds, while freshman forward Cody Joyce added nine points and three boards off the bench. Davis had five points and eight rebounds for Huskies.
 
Lorne Jackson paced Pepperdine (2-2) with 17 points and six rebounds, shooting only 3-of-13 from the field, including 2-of-8 from behind the arc, but 9-of-12 from the free-throw line. Jett Raines added 12 points, including four in the overtime period. Caleb Willis added nine points, while Stacy Davis had six points and led the Waves with 10 rebounds.
 
Pepperdine shot 38 percent from the field for the game, only 4-of-14 from long range and made 11-of-18 from the free-throw line. HBU shot only 35 percent from the field, 2-of-14 from 3-point range and made 9-of-15 from the charity stripe. The Huskies outrebounded the Waves, 43-39.
 
Clinging to a one-point lead, the Huskies got a three-point play from Russell and Davis found Joyce underneath for a layup to push the advantage to 17-11 with 11:42 remaining in the first half. Pepperdine once again got to within one, but Bernardi followed his own miss for a lay-in, got a steal and found Russell streaking to the hoop for a layup, then Russell nailed an 18-footer from the baseline as HBU went up 24-17 with 7:32 to go.
 
The Huskies held the Waves scoreless for 4:31, but Pepperdine ended the drought on a layup by Willis, Jackson made a pair of free throws after a technical foul and Davis hit a jump hook for the Waves in the lane to slice the Huskies' lead to one with 3:38 left. Joyce answered with a jump hook of his own, but Raines hit a short baseline jumper with 33 seconds to go, and HBU took a 26-25 lead into halftime.
 
Russell led HBU with nine points in the half, while Raines had eight for Pepperdine.
 
Bernardi opened the second-half scoring with a 15-foot jumper, but Jackson answered with a layup to keep HBU's lead at one. Willis knocked down a 3-pointer with 14:50 remaining to give the Waves their first lead of the game, 30-28, but Davis found Joyce down low on the other end to tie the game.
 
Davis broke the tie with a layup to put Pepperdine up by a basket, then Willis drove in for a layup to extend the Waves' lead to four with 10:52 left. Bernardi spun on the baseline for a lay-in off the glass to make the score 34-32, but Jackson sank a pair of free throws as Pepperdine went back ahead by four. Freshman James Harper powered inside for a layup, then hit a short jumper to tie the game with 8:15 to go.
 
Jan Maehlen hit a putback jumper, then Jackson made the first of two free throws to restore the Waves to a three-point edge. Bernardi hit a couple of free throws, then Russell made a pair with 5:31 on the clock to put the Huskies back on top, 40-39. Willis hit a running jumper at the 5:00 mark as the Waves re-took the lead, but Joyce answered on the other end to put the Huskies ahead.
 
Russell gave HBU a 45-41 lead as he drilled a 3-pointer with 2:19 to go, but Jackson answered with a three from the corner to cut HBU's lead to one at with 2:00 on the clock. Davis got inside to give the Waves a one-point lead with 1:08 remaining, then Jackson missed the front end of a one-and-one, but the rebound went out of bounds off the Huskies with 24 seconds left.
 
 Jackson again went to the line with 22 seconds remaining and made both to give Pepperdine a 48-45 lead. After Bernardi missed a 3-pointer in the corner, the Huskies corralled the rebound, Davis pulled the ball back out, took two dribbles, stepped up and drained a three with two Waves in his face with three seconds to go to tie the game, 48-48, and send it to overtime.
 
Raines opened the overtime period with a baseline jumper, then made a layup with 2:53 left to put Pepperdine ahead, 52-48. Smith made one of two free throws for HBU at the 2:26 mark, then Jackson knocked down a tree to put the Waves ahead 55-49 with 1:44 remaining. Womack also made one of two free throws, then Bernardi drove baseline for a layup to get the Huskies within three with just under a minute to go. After Pepperdine turned the ball over on an offensive foul, Smith again made one of two from the line to make the score to cut the deficit to 55-53 with 24 seconds to go.
 
Jackson made two free throws with 17 seconds remaining to give the Waves a 57-53 lead, but the Huskies couldn't answer in the closing moments.
 
The Huskies return to action when they hit the road to face Eastern Illinois Saturday at 2 p.m. in Charleston, Ill.