POMONA, Calif. ? The UC San Diego men's basketball team dropped its fourth-straight game, this time falling to 19th-ranked Cal Poly Pomona by a 68-65 score on Friday night in Kellogg Gymnasium. With the loss the Tritons fall to 10-14 overall and 8-11 in CCAA play while the Broncos improve to 18-6 overall and 14-5 in league action.
UCSD played well in the first half, holding a 34-26 lead at halftime behind a 10-for-12 team performance from the charity stripe. That lead swelled to 12 points at the 15:14 mark of the second half after a layup from sophomore Darryl Lawlor.
The Broncos went on a 10-0 run over the next three minutes to cut the lead down to two at 46-44 with 11:48 to go. The two teams would trade baskets over the next four minutes before a Larry Gordon layup for CPP tied the score at 53 apiece with just over seven minutes to go in the contest.
Cal Poly Pomona would build a lead to as many as five before Lawlor made two free throws to cut the lead down to two points with just 22 seconds to go. The Broncos' Kaelen Daniels made one of two free throws to make the lead three with 12 seconds to go.
UCSD had two looks from behind the arc to tie the score before the buzzer sounded, but misses from sophomore Kelvin Kim and senior Robby Peters just missed, giving the Broncos a 3-point victory.
Lawlor scored a team-high 13 points while also grabbing a team-high seven rebounds for the Tritons in the loss. Kim added 12 points and four assists.
Dion Cook scored a game-high 21 points for the Broncos while Daniels added a 19-point, 10-rebound double-double. Gordon rounded out the CPP scorers in double figures, adding 11 points in the win.
Head coach Bill Carr's squad returns to action on Saturday, playing at 16th-ranked Cal State San Bernardino. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m. in Coussoulis Arena on the CSUSB campus.
