BOSTON (AP) - Lonnie Jackson hit three 3-pointers in the second half, including a key one with 4:11 to play, and finished with 13 points to help Boston College pull out a 72-64 victory over St. Francis (N.Y.) on Saturday.
Patrick Heckmann paced the Eagles with 18 points, while Olivier Hanlan had 13 and Joe Rahon 12.
Boston College (4-5) avoided losing to a team from the Northeast Conference for the second time this season. The Eagles fell at home to Bryant on Nov. 25.
Jalen Cannon led St. Francis (2-5) with 23 points and 13 rebounds. The Terriers lost for the fifth time in six games.
With BC clinging to a 59-58 edge, Jackson nailed a 3 from about two feet behind the line atop of the key. Heckmann then had a steal at midcourt and went in for a breakaway dunk, giving the Eagles a 64-58 lead with 3:51 to play.
The Terriers never got closer than four points the rest of the way.
Trailing 48-39 early in the second half, the Eagles went on a 20-4 run over a 6-minute stretch. Jackson helped trigger the run with a pair of 3-pointers just 42 seconds apart. Andrew Van Nest had a pair of layups and Rahon scored six points, capping it with a 3 from the left wing.
The Terriers, who led by two points at intermission, opened the second half by scoring the initial seven points for a 42-33 edge on Cannon's jumper with just over 18 minutes to play.
Anthony White's driving basket with 1.7 seconds left gave St. Francis a 35-33 halftime edge. The Eagles had opened a 27-20 lead before the Terriers scored 15 of the 21 final points in the half.
The Eagles were outrebounded overall (21-15) and collected just two offensive rebounds in the opening 20 minutes. In addition, they had no second-chance points.
BC starting center Dennis Clifford missed his second straight game with a right ankle injury and was on the bench with his foot in a boot. Coach Steve Donahue said after the last game that he thought the 7-footer would be out "a couple of weeks."
The Eagles don't open Atlantic Coast Conference play until they host No. 25 North Carolina State on Jan. 5.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| St. Francis (N.Y.) (2-5) | 35 | 29 | 64 |
| Boston College (4-5) « | 33 | 39 | 72 |
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| St. Francis (N.Y.) Terriers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Cannon, F | 31 | 8-13 | 7-8 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
| K. Douglas, F | 29 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| A. Johnson, C | 32 | 4-9 | 1-2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| B. Mockford, G | 34 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| B. Jones, G | 20 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. White | 20 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| T. Nichols | 15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| P. Santavenere | 13 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| A. Isailovic | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Milk | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-59 | 8-11 | 36 | 12 | 16 | 64 | |
| 42.4% | 72.7% | ||||||
| Boston College Eagles | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Van Nest, F | 30 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| R. Anderson, F | 19 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| P. Heckmann, G | 35 | 6-12 | 4-4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| J. Rahon, G | 34 | 3-11 | 5-5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| O. Hanlan, G | 26 | 4-9 | 3-4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| L. Jackson | 25 | 4-8 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| E. Odio | 23 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| K. Caudill | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| D. Rubin | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-56 | 14-16 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 72 | |
| 44.6% | 87.5% | ||||||
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