MARSHALL, Mo. - It's hard to lose a basketball game when you make seventeen 3-pointers and pour in 104 points, but the Mount Mercy Mustangs found a way Saturday.
Mount Mercy lost to Missouri Valley, 114-104, in a Heart of America Conference shootout that did not feature a whole lot of defense.
Davarea Loggins popped in eight 3-pointers and scored 24 points for the Mustangs, who were 17 of 35 from 3-point land Saturday. Bailey Basala made five 3-pointers and scored 23 points.
Royshawn Webb finished with 16 points, seven assists and five rebounds. Davion Watson contributed 11 points. Christian Reischauer had seven assists to match Webb.
Alonzo Williams scored 25 points for Missouri Valley (7-5, 4-3). Darrell Watson and Tavious Brazil netted 19 points apiece.
Missouri Valley led by 18 points with 11:18 left in the game, but Mount Mercy rallied and pulled within four points at 104-100 on a pair of free throws by Dennis McKinney with 2:26 remaining. Missouri Valley responded with five straight points for a 109-100 advantage and finished the victory.
Mount Mercy fell to 5-5 overall and 2-4 in the league.
MOUNT MERCY (104): Dennis McKinney 2-5 4-4 8, Davion Watson 4-7 2-2 11, Bailey Basala 7-14 4-6 23, RoyShawn Webb 6-11 4-8 16, Keishun Thomas 1-3 0-0 3, Tyler Kelley 3-4 1-2 8, Davarea Loggins 8-11 0-0 24, Streeter McIlravy 0-2 0-0 0, Christian Reischauer 1-3 0-0 3, DJ Johnson 4-7 0-0 8. Totals 36-67 15-22 104.
MISSOURI VALLEY (114): Casey Cody-Jackson 5-13 1-2 14, D'Angelo Young-Pryor 2-7 4-6 9, Mason Schlotzhauer 1-5 5-6 8, Darrell Watson 7-12 2-4 19, Tavious Brazil 7-8 3-4 19, Jhacobe Cochran 1-4 6-6 9, Cameron Boyd 0-0 0-0 0, Alonzo Williams 9-10 7-9 25, Tremont Moore 3-5 1-2 7, Dussan Allen 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 36-66 31-41 114.
Halftime - Missouri Valley 50, Mount Mercy 43. 3-point goals - Mount Mercy 17-35 (Loggins 8-11, Basala 5-10, Thomas 1-2, Kelley 1-2, Reischauer 1-3, Watson 1-4, Johnson 0-1, McIlravy 0-2), Missouri Valley 11-24 (Watson 3-4, Cody-Jackson 3-7, Brazil 2-2, Young-Pryor 1-2, Cochran 1-3, Schlotzhauer 1-5, Williams 0-1).
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