ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Corey Stern scored 17 points and Matt Staff scored 16 to lead Texas State to an 81-69 win over UC Riverside Saturday in the seventh-place game of the Great Alaska Shootout.
Reid Koenen added 12 points and Vonn Jones scored 10 for the Bobcats (3-3), who made 11 of their first 12 shots, raced to a 20-2 lead and were ahead 26-16 midway through the first half. UC Riverside closed within five points early in the second half, but couldn't come any closer.
Chris Harriel led the Highlanders (1-6) with 16 points. Dayton Boddie scored 12 and David Guinn had 10 points for Riverside.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| California Riverside (1-5) | 35 | 34 | 69 |
| Texas State-San Marcos (3-2) « | 47 | 34 | 81 |
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| California Riverside Highlanders | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Harriel, F | 31 | 6-17 | 1-5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 16 |
| L. Devenny, F | 27 | 1-1 | 2-7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| C. Patton, F | 22 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| R. Smith, G | 23 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| A. Quick, G | 6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Fox | 27 | 1-5 | 6-7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| D. Guinn | 18 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| D. Boddie | 17 | 2-4 | 7-7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| T. Johnson | 12 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| S. Jones | 9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Burke | 4 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| T. Owens | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 23-51 | 17-30 | 41 | 14 | 26 | 69 | |
| 45.1% | 56.7% | ||||||
| Texas State-San Marcos Bobcats | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Stern, F | 28 | 5-7 | 5-10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 |
| M. Staff, F | 22 | 6-7 | 2-2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| R. Koenen, F | 17 | 5-9 | 1-1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| V. Jones, G | 28 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 10 |
| W. Davis, G | 24 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Wright | 17 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| N. Hinton | 13 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| B. Brown II | 11 | 1-3 | 5-5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| P. Hawkins | 10 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Richardson | 10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| R. Dorsey | 8 | 1-3 | 2-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| D. Jones | 8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| J. Nwankwo | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Tanton | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 27-54 | 19-28 | 26 | 19 | 24 | 81 | |
| 50% | 67.9% | ||||||
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