HAMMOND, La. (AP) - Brandon Fortenberry paced Southeastern Louisiana with a season-high 23 points and a career-best five 3-pointers as the Lions beat Central Arkansas 72-68 Saturday for their first Southland Conference win this season.
Fortenberry hit 8 of 16 from the field, including half of his 10 3-point attempts, and Roosevelt Johnson had 16 points and 12 rebounds for his third double-double this year.
The Bears (5-7, 0-2), who are now 0-7 all time when playing at Southeastern Louisiana (3-9, 1-1), were led by Jordan Harks' 17 points.
Robert Crawford led a late Central Arkansas charge, cutting a 66-59 deficit with a layup and a 3-pointer to make it 66-64 with 1:54 left. Twice, Johnson put the Lions back up by four, but both times, Harks answered with a jumper for the Bears.
After Harks' final make, the Lions' Jeffery Ricard and Dre Evans each hit one free throw for the final spread.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Central Arkansas (5-7) | 41 | 27 | 68 |
| Southeastern Louisiana (3-9) « | 33 | 39 | 72 |
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| Central Arkansas Bears | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Harks, F | 26 | 7-13 | 3-6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| J. Garner, F | 20 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| D. McClure, G | 30 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| O. Wells, G | 26 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| R. Crawford, G | 24 | 5-10 | 2-2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Borden | 27 | 3-5 | 0-3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| D. Berete | 23 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| R. Williams | 18 | 0-3 | 2-4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Z. Padgett | 6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-55 | 9-17 | 41 | 12 | 18 | 68 | |
| 45.5% | 52.9% | ||||||
| Southeastern Louisiana Lions | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. Johnson, F | 32 | 5-14 | 6-10 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 16 |
| A. Benton, F | 19 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| D. Evans, G | 37 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| B. Fortenberry, G | 37 | 8-16 | 2-2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 23 |
| J. Ricard, G | 32 | 5-10 | 3-4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. Woods | 18 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| T. Nelson | 15 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| J. James | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Petrovcic | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-60 | 14-21 | 32 | 12 | 14 | 72 | |
| 41.7% | 66.7% | ||||||
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