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HOUSTON – HBU sophomore guard Rob Lewis scored a career-high 26 points to lead five Huskies in double figures, as they rolled past Central Arkansas, 99-83, in Southland Conference basketball Saturday night at Sharp Gym.
 
Lewis went 9-for-14 from the field, including 2-for-3 from 3-point range, and 6-for-10 from the free throw line, while adding four assists and four steals for the Huskies (5-21, 2-12 SLC). Junior center Ricmonds Vilde also posted a career-high with 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting to go along with six rebounds. Sophomore guard Caleb Crayton had 13 points and seven rebounds, freshman forward Colter Lasher had 11 points and seven rebounds, and sophomore forward Cody Joyce came off the bench for 10 points. Sophomore forward Dauson Womack led HBU with 11 rebounds and scored nine points.
 
LaQuentin Miles went 10-for-22 from the field and 6-for-10 from the field to lead UCA (6-18, 3-10) with 27 points and eight rebounds. Lenell Brown was 8-for-18 from the field, but only 3-for-10 from 3-point range, to score 22 points. DuShaun Rice added 10 points for the Bears.
 
HBU shot 54 percent from the field, 3-for-10 from behind the arc, and 32-for-46 from the free throw line. UCA shot 36 percent, but only 6-for-23 from long range, and 23-for-33 from the stripe. The Huskies outrebounded the Bears, 51-38.
 
HBU trailed 14-10 at the 16-minute mark, but the Huskies scored seven-straight to lead by three. Lasher was fouled shooting a three, making two of the free throws, Lewis tied it on a fadeway, baseline 15-footer, then the Huskies took the lead on a thunderous putback dunk by Crayton. The Huskies led 26-23, but the Bears scored the next six to take a three-point edge.
 
Freshman guard Jimmy Barton, who scored seven points for the game, and Lewis buried back-to-back threes to put HBU up, 34-31, with 5:50 remaining in the opening period. After the Bears tied it, Lewis nailed a jumper and a three to put the Huskies up by five. The Bears cut the deficit to one on a jumper by Miles, but he missed a three-point opportunity with the free throw that would've tied it. Lewis made a jumper with 23 seconds on the clock to send HBU to the locker room with a 41-38 lead.
 
HBU shot 50 percent from the field, including 3-for-8 from 3-point range, and 4-for-7 from the line in the first half, while UCA shot 39 percent, only 1-for-9 from long distance, but went 9-for-14 from the stripe. The Bears outrebounded the Huskies, 23-19. Lewis had 16 at the break for HBU, and Miles had 13 for UCA.
 
The Huskies scored the first four points of the second half to extend their lead to seven, but Miles answered with a three from the top of the key for the Bears. Lasher's rainbow 18-footer and a spinning scoop to the hole by Lewis pushed HBU's lead to 54-45 with 14:20 on the clock. Lewis gave the Huskies a 10-point lead with 13:32 to go, then Brown hit a jumper for the Bears, but missed a chance for a three-point play.
 
HBU took a 60-49 lead with 12:52 left, but Brown got hot, hitting three 3-pointers in a 1:11 stretch to slice the Huskies' lead to 62-59. Junior guard Marcel Smith and Crayton answered with buckets to get HBU's lead back to seven. HBU built its advantage back to double digits at 71-61 on a putback layup by Joyce, then pushed its lead by 15 at 85-70 with 5:00 on the clock.
 
Aubrey Ball made a triple that got UCA within 11, but Lasher converted a three-point play on the other end, then HBU scored six-straight, capped by a two-handed jam by Vilde, to take its largest lead of the game at 94-75 with 2:23 left.
 
The Huskies, who snapped a nine-game losing streak, return to action when they host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Sharp Gym.