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Vanguard Dissects Toros From Downtown in 66-58 Win

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COSTA MESA, Calif. -- One year after starting the season with seven-straight wins and a 20-point blowout win over Vanguard, the host Lions turned the tables on visiting Cal State Dominguez Hills in a 66-58 win tonight, dropping the Toros to their seventh-straight loss to start 2009-10, bolstered by eight more makes than CSUDH from behind the 3-point line.  James Cawthorne tied for team-high honors with 12 points, and was the lone Toro to shoot over 50% from the field.

A Zareh Zargaryan jumper to open the game and consecutive free throws from Robert Willhite a minute later gave the Toros two leads early, but the host Lions took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Dennis Heenan at the 16:46 mark in the first half, that spurred a 6-point run that saw VU take an 11-7 lead 42 seconds later.

After two Toro buckets tied the game and the two teams exchanged triples, Vanguard went on a 10-0 run over the next three and a half minutes, before settling for a 33-28 lead entering the half.

The hosts continued their hot shooting in the second half, again taking a 10-point lead with just under five minutes elapsed on a Mitch Boyce trey, pushing their edge to 13 on a Dennis Heenan long-range make.

Five-consecutive points by John Staats brought the lead to 47-39 at the 13:05 mark, but Vanguard kept its lead at double-figures over the next 11 minutes, the last coming on a made free throw by Greg Scott with 2:40 left in regulation.

The Toros cut the lead to six on two occasions down the stretch on a Tim McGrath freebie and a Jamel Ward fastbreak lay-up, but two more freebies by Scott accounted for the final tally in the 66-48 Lion win.

Scott led all scorers with 22 points, including 8-of-12 from the free throw line, with Boyce's 13 and Heenan's 11 points giving the Lions three players in double-figure scorers, while Cawthorne and Staats' 12 points paced the Toros.

VU, however, was hot from behind the line, as evidenced by its 13-for-34 night, compared to just 5-of-18 for the Toros.

CSUDH, which established the program's record with its seventh-consecutive loss to begin a season, looks to right the ship to open the 2010 calendar year as CCAA newcomer Cal State East Bay visits Carson on Saturday, January 2, with first tip set for 3:00 pm in the Torodome.




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