NEW ORLEANS – The Loyola University New Orleans men's basketball team took another Southern States Athletic Conference loss on Saturday, falling at Life University, 71-63. The Wolf Pack will be back in The Den next week for their final two games at home for the regular season.
Loyola got off to a 10-0 start thanks to four points by Julian Baldwin and scores by Braelee Albert, Milan Mejia and Zachary Lee. Albert and Lee kept it a 10-point lead six minutes into the game, 14-4, and Loyola still led by 11, 18-7, by the nine-minute mark. Kameron Johnson and Alex Hammond scored their first points after that, 21-9, but Life used a 11-0 run to cut its deficit to one, 21-20, with three minutes until halftime.
Scores by Lee and Hammond held off the Running Eagles for the time being, and four more points for Mejia brought the score to 31-25 by halftime.
Brody Adams scored his first points and Albert hit a 3-pointer to help Loyola start the second half well. Albert hit another 3 a couple of minutes later, 41-35, then four more points for Adams pushed Loyola's advantage back out to 10, 45-35, with 14 minutes left on the clock. Leonard Jackson converted an and-1 opportunity to give the Pack a 54-43 advantage at the 10:23 mark, however, a 16-0 run for Life put the hosts ahead by four, 59-54, with less than five minutes left.
Free throws by Mejia immediately after that kept Loyola within one possession, then a 3-pointer by Mejia at the 1:22 mark brought the Life lead to 65-62. The Running Eagles quickly took a multi-poession lead and never relinquished it to hold on for the win.
Pack Facts
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Braelee Albert led the Wolf Pack in scoring with 17 points,, his second-highest scoring total of the season.
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Milan Mejia was also in double figures with 14 points. Loyola made four threes in the game, with Albert hitting two and Mejia making the other two.
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Zachary Lee secured a team-high six rebounds to go along with nine points.
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Brody Adams scored eight off the bench, his highest point total in a game at Loyola.
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