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Shorthanded Jackets Fall at Home to No. 17 BYU-Hawaii (Feb. 12, 2004)
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BILLINGS, MT – Despite a career-high 31 points from senior Jerett Skrifvars, Montana State-Billings lost at home for the first time in over a year on Thursday, 93-82 to 17th-ranked BYU-Hawaii.  The Yellowjackets entered the game with a 23-game home winning streak—the fourth-longest current streak in the nation—with their last home loss coming against Hawaii Pacific on January 14 of last year.

Sophomore guard Cameron Munoz missed the game with an injury sustained in the waning seconds of Tuesday’s win over the Seasiders.  Munoz currently leads the conference and the nation in 3-point shooting and is averaging 20.3 points per game. 

Skrifvars and the Seasiders’ Jake Chrisman each carried their respective teams on their shoulders for much of the night.  Chrisman scored a career-high 42 points and pulled down 12 rebounds.  He scored 80 points in the two games in Billings this week.  Skrifvars scored ten of his points in the final 5:07, keeping the Yellowjackets in the game until the final minute.

BYU-Hawaii led by as many as seven in the first half and didn’t trail until a Dave Carse 3-pointer gave the Yellowjackets their first lead of the game at the 12:33 mark.  A Chrisman jumper on the next possession tied the game at 17-17, starting a 19-7 Seasiders run.  Chrisman’s 3-pointer with 5:08 left in the half gave BYUH a 34-24 advantage.

Sparked by a Buddy Windy Boy steal and fast break dunk, the Yellowjackets finished the final 1:31 of the first half with a 7-2 run to cut the Seasiders’ lead to 43-39 at the break.  Skrifvars scored five of the Jackets’ seven points during that stretch.

After a Michael Stowell layup gave the Seasiders a six point lead to open the second half, the Yellowjackets ran off nine unanswered points to take a 48-45 lead with 17:06 to play.  Junior forward Trae Fortier scored all nine of those points and finished the game with 15 points before fouling out.

The teams traded leads over the next four minutes before a 12-1 BYU-Hawaii run gave the Seasiders a double-digit lead with 8:29 to play.  The Seasiders extended the lead to as many as 13 points by the five minute mark.  Skrifvars helped trim the lead to six on two occasions in the final five minutes, but the Jackets could get no closer.

Along with Skrifvars and Fortier, Windy Boy and Carse also scored in double figures with 15 and 11 points respectively.  The Seasiders got 15 points and 12 rebounds from Austin Smylie and 19 points from Stowell.

The Seasiders improved to 8-2 in the PacWest and 18-4 overall.  Ranked No. 2 in the West Region, BYU-Hawaii’s magic number for clinching at least a share of its second-straight PacWest title is now two games.  The Yellowjackets, who are still in second place in the conference, fell to 5-5 in the PacWest and 14-7 overall.  MSUB is ranked No. 9 in the West Region this week.  The top eight teams qualify for the tournament. 

The Yellowjackets host Hawaii Pacific on Saturday at 8:00 p.m.  The Sea Warriors split two games at Western New Mexico this week and bring an 8-14 overall record and 5-6 PacWest mark to Billings.

Click HERE for photos to the Yellowjacket vs. Brigham Young University Hawaii

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