Blazers Cruise by Crusaders in Carolina Blue

IRVING, Texas – Dallas College North Lake men's basketball team beat Dallas Christian College's Prospect Team, 100-61, Wednesday night in the Blazer Dome.

The Blazers, who are receiving votes in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III rankings, scored 100 points for the first time this season. Eron Bogart's breakout jam in the closing minute put the finishing touches on the century mark win.

North Lake (8-12, 3-2 Dallas Athletic Conference) will resume league play 1 p.m. Saturday in a home game against Dallas College Cedar Valley (7-10, 1-4 DAC).

North Lake, which was wearing team shoes gifted by Kawaii Leonard and the Carolina Blue uniforms brought to the program by former coach Tim McGraw, had four players score in double figures. Adonai Rezene finished with 19 points, hitting three triples amongst his seven field goals. It was the 11^th game he's scored in double figures.

Anden Holmes scored 11 of his 15 points in the first half. He was 4-for-4 from the free throw line. Alex Gilmore had 12 points, and Autavius Hobbs had 11 points and five assists.

Michael McLeod had 16 points, while canning four triples for the Crusaders. Charles Okoro and Cobee Giles each scored 11 points for Dallas Christian.

Dallas Christian's Myles Smith hit a 3-pointer with 9:11 to go in the first half to cut what had been an eight-point Blazers lead down to three. Rezene scored off-glass, and converted a three-point play at the 7:50 mark to bump North Lake's lead to 35-27. Bogart scored on a runout dunk at the 2:44 mark to extend the lead to nine, and A'Marie Haywood stepped into a 3 right after checking in late in the half to build a 14-point lead.

The Blazers led 48-35 at the break.

With 13:50 to go, Hobbs hit a floater as North Lake increased its lead to 20. Noble McDougle scored on a runout feed from Dre'Yon Quattlebaum at the 10:30 mark to extend the lead to 73-46. McLeod's three kept the Crusaders within 84-59, but Quattlebaum knocked down a turnaround field goal to make it 95-61, and the Blazers scored the game's next five points to reach the century mark.

Saturday's home game against the Suns will mark the start of the second round of league play. North Lake escaped the first meeting, 86-85, in Lancaster.