MALIBU, Calif. – Pepperdine used a 16-2 run to end the game and got double-doubles from Brendan Lane and Stacy Davis to pull off a 76-64 over HBU Saturday afternoon at Firestone Fieldhouse.
 
Sophomore guard Rob Lewis led HBU (3-9) with 14 points, while sophomore forward Cody Joyce added 12, but was held to only two in the second half. Sophomore forward Dauson Womack led the Huskies on the glass with 10 rebounds, and junior center Ricmonds Vilde had eight. Freshman forward Colter Lasher tallied a career-high nine points, and junior guard Marcel Smith had a season-high six assists.
 
Davis had 21 points, shooting 9-of-18 from the field, and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Lane had 21 points on 10-of-16 shooting, to go along with 11 boards for Pepperdine (7-5).
 
HBU shot 39 percent from the field for the game, 6-of-19 from 3-point range, while Pepperdine shot 47 percent, but missed all seven of its threes. The Waves shot 18-of-22 from the free throw line, going 15-for-17 in the second half, while the Huskies were 12-for-18. Pepperdine outrebounded HBU, 41-33, and outscored them 52-20 in the paint.
 
Sophomore guard Caleb Crayton's 3-pointer at the 17:11 mark put the Huskies ahead, 8-6, but the Waves scored six-straight to take a 12-9 lead. Crayton tied the game, 14-14, with another trey with 9:09 to go, but Austin Mills made a steal which led to a Lamond Murray Jr. layup to give Pepperdine the lead. Two free throws by Lewis and one by Vilde put the Huskies ahead by one, but a jump hook by Davis gave the Waves an 18-17 advantage.
 
Lasher and Lewis drilled back-to-back threes, then Lasher completed a fast break with a layup on a dish from Smith to cap an 8-0 run that put HBU ahead 25-18 with 4:12 remaining in the opening half. Jeremy Major converted a three-point play, then hit a jumper with 35 seconds left to cut the Huskies' lead to 34-31 at halftime.
 
HBU shot 46 percent from the field in the first half, including 5-for-12 from behind the arc, but only 5-of-10 from the free throw line. Pepperdine shot 45 percent, but missed all five of its 3-point attempts, and went only 3-for-5 from the line. The Huskies outrebounded the Waves, 19-15. Joyce led HBU with 10 points, while Davis had 12 for Pepperdine at the break.
 
In the second half, the Waves tied the game, 36-36, on a layup by Davis, but Russell put the Huskies ahead with a jumper off the window. Buckets by Lane and Davis gave Pepperdine a two-point lead, but Womack tied it and Smith made a three-point play to put HBU up, 43-40, with 13:04 to go.
 
The two teams traded baskets, but Lewis' three with 6:34 left gave the Huskies a four-point lead. Lane spun inside for a layup and Malcolm Brooks sank a pair of free throws to tie it, 56-56, at the 5:21 mark, but Vilde took a feed from Russell and laid it in to put HBU up by two. Davis tied the game with two more free throw, but Russell buried a 15-footer. Atif Russell made two free throws for the Waves, then Lasher hit a baseline jumper for the Huskies to make it 62-60 with just under four minutes remaining.
 
Pepperdine scored the next nine points, including five-straight points from Lane to take a 69-62 lead, with 1:25 left. The Waves closed it out from the line down the stretch.
 
The Huskies will be off for Christmas break through the end of the year and return to action when they begin their first season of Southland Conference play on the road against Oral Roberts Jan. 2 in Tulsa, Okla., followed by Central Arkansas Jan. 4 in Conway, Ark.