Box Score

    CHICO -- Cal State San Bernardino opened the second half with a 9-0 run to expand an eight-point lead to 17 en route to an 85-74 victory over host Chico State before 614 fans Saturday in Acker Gym.
    Junior guard Aaron Hill scored 16 points and senior guard Lawrence Tyson added 15 points as the Coyotes won their fifth straight game to improve to 5-2 overall and 3-0 in the CCAA as they head to Cal State Stanislaus for a 2:30 p.m. encounter on Sunday.
    The game will be broadcast on KCAA 1050-AM and webcast at www.csusbathletics.com (click on Listen LIve). The Warriors are coached by Larry Reynolds, who had a 110-35 record at CSUSB in five seasons with three CCAA titles and two West Region titles to his credit.
     The loss dropped the Wildcats to 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the CCAA and snapped their own five-game win streak.
      Helping out in the victory was junior point guard Corey Caston who scored 11 points, all at the free throw line, hitting 11 of 12 -- most of them late in the second half when the Wildcats were forced to foul to try and eat into a CSUSB lead that ranged from 12 to 17 points throughout the half.
      Senior Steven Gaston came off the bench to score 11 points on five of eight shooting while graduate student Bryan LeDuc, the CCAA player of the week for Dec. 20-27, was held to nine points but also grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.
      Not content to just score, Hill contributed three assists and two steals. Tywon hit six of eight field goals including two of three from downtown and contributed two assists, two blocked shots and two steals. Caston had five assists in the game.
      The Coyotes shot 56 percent for the game (27 of 48) and hit six of 12 treys (50 percent). The team also shot well at the line -- 25 of 32 -- 76 percent.
       Leading 38-30 at halftime, the Coyotes scored nine in a row capped by David Jefferson's jumper to lead 47-30 early in the second half.