ORANGE, Calif. – Hardin-Simmons' Cowboy basketball team fell late to the Chapman Panthers by a score of 78-71 on the road in California on Monday night.
 
The game was dead even tied at 40-40 at the half. The Cowboys capped a 14-0 run with a Tyler Williams 3-pointer near the end of the half to go up 36-31 on the Panthers, erasing a nine-point deficit.
 
The Cowboys had their largest lead of the game at 55-48 with 11 minutes to play in the second half after a make from Jamar Ingram.  
 
Chapman turned it around to take their largest lead of 76-67 with under two minutes to play and went on to win 78-71 over Hardin-Simmons.
 
The teams were even in shooting, both making 27-of-63 shots good for 42.9 percent from the floor. The Cowboy defense kept Chapman out of the paint, but the difference came from nine-made 3-pointers from the Panthers, who took 31 three-point shots out of their 63 total shots in the contest.
 
Tyler Williams finished with a career-high 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting. Chris Bryant scored 15 points and Asher Fleming had 12 points in the game. Bryant led in rebounding with ten for a double-double and Matthew Alexander had five assists to go with nine boards, seven points, and four steals.
 
The Cowboys fell to 8-7 on the year and will travel to Thousand Oaks, Calif. tomorrow to take on the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen starting at 5 p.m.  
 
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