CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) - Johnny Dee scored 17 points, Chris Anderson added 13 points, six assists and five steals and San Diego cruised past Southern Utah on the road Tuesday night for a 67-53 win.
San Diego (4-5) jumped out to a 14-4 lead when Mike Davis hit a lay-up with 12:37 remaining in the half and led 36-22 when the two teams headed to the locker room at halftime. Southern Utah cut the Toreros lead to three at 39-36 when Jayson Cheesman hit a pair of free throws with 12:06 to go but that's as close as the Thunderbirds got.
The Toreros held Southern Utah (2-6) to just 35.1 percent from the field and forced 16 turnovers while out-rebounding the Thunderbirds 43-31.
Damon Heuir scored 17 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out five assists to lead Southern Utah and teammate Jackson Stevenett had 13 points and eight rebounds.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| San Diego (4-5) « | 36 | 31 | 67 |
| Southern Utah (2-6) | 22 | 31 | 53 |
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| San Diego Toreros | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| K. Rancifer, F | 23 | 2-7 | 0-2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| D. Kramer, F | 18 | 0-4 | 2-4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| S. Fajemisin, C | 9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| C. Anderson, G | 35 | 3-6 | 6-8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| J. Dee, G | 29 | 5-9 | 4-4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Sinis | 21 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| M. Davis | 20 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| C. Manresa | 15 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| C. Miles | 14 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| J. Kok | 11 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| K. Stackhouse | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Guidry | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-49 | 20-33 | 31 | 13 | 15 | 67 | |
| 40.8% | 60.6% | ||||||
| Southern Utah Thunderbirds | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Stevenett, F | 34 | 5-14 | 2-2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| J. Jeffery, F | 12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| J. Cheesman, C | 18 | 0-2 | 3-4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| D. Heuir, G | 32 | 6-13 | 3-5 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| W. Collie, G | 14 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Hess | 24 | 3-11 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| C. Hanks | 21 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| J. Johnson | 19 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| C. Nsenki | 19 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| T. Koehler | 6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Thomas | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-57 | 10-15 | 43 | 14 | 24 | 53 | |
| 35.1% | 66.7% | ||||||
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