MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Augustine Rubit recorded his 10th double-double of the season, 19 points and 11 rebounds to lift South Alabama over Western Kentucky 65-57 Thursday night in Sun Belt Conference play.
Antoine Allen scored 19 points and Mychal Ammons added 10, and both finished with seven boards to help South Alabama (10-8, 7-3) outrebound Western Kentucky 40-32.
After George Fant's layup gave Western Kentucky a 35-33 lead with 14:48 left to play, South Alabama answered with an 18-4 run to take its biggest lead of the game, 51-39 with 8:36 remaining.
Rubit and Allen scored 11 points each in the second half, and the Jaguars converted 14 free throws in the period.
Western Kentucky (11-10, 5-5) made it 60-54 behind Brandon Harris' 3-pointer with 55 seconds left, but the Hilltoppers failed to make another field goal the rest of the way.
Harris led the Hilltoppers with 14 points and seven rebounds.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Western Kentucky (11-10) | 23 | 34 | 57 |
| South Alabama (10-8) « | 28 | 37 | 65 |
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| Western Kentucky Hilltoppers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| G. Fant, F | 25 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| A. Rostov, C | 26 | 1-4 | 2-2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| B. Harris, G | 38 | 5-13 | 3-4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| T. Price, G | 35 | 4-14 | 1-2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| K. Kaspar, G | 27 | 2-10 | 1-2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Dickerson | 18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| S. Drane | 12 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| T. Akol | 11 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| O. Akamune | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| P. Blade | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Vasquez | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Totals | 21-57 | 9-12 | 32 | 8 | 23 | 57 | |
| 36.8% | 75% | ||||||
| South Alabama Jaguars | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Rubit, F | 35 | 7-12 | 5-8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 19 |
| M. Ammons, F | 30 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| A. Allen, G | 29 | 4-12 | 8-10 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 19 |
| D. Conner, G | 29 | 1-6 | 3-4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| F. Goldstein, G | 17 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Wright | 23 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| J. Carter | 19 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| B. Stevens III | 18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 19-47 | 22-32 | 40 | 9 | 14 | 65 | |
| 40.4% | 68.8% | ||||||
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