NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Aaron Augustin hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to give Stephen F. Austin a 68-65 win over ULM Saturday, Dec. 2 in William R. Johnson Coliseum. The tightly contested game featured 12 ties and seven lead changes.
 
Trailing 13-8 in the first half, ULM put together an 11-0 run to turn a five-point deficit into a six-point lead at 19-13 on Marvin Jean-Pierre's three-pointer with 7:09 left in the opening half. ULM held SFA scoreless during that 5:46 stretch. Jean-Pierre (nine points) and Travis Munnings (eight) combined for 17 first-half points as the Warhawks held a 31-27 lead at the intermission.
 
SFA (7-1) opened the second half with an 11-1 spurt and took a 38-32 lead on Leon Gilmore III's jumper in the lane with 16:56 remaining. ULM answered with a 13-1 run of its own and built a 45-36 lead on a trey by Sam McDaniel with 12:00 left. The Lumberjacks responded with a 16-3 spurt and moved out to a 55-48 advantage on TJ Holyfield's three-pointer with 6:12 to play. The Warhawks scored seven-straight points and pulled even at 57 on a tip-in by Jean-Pierre with 3:25 left.
 
There were four ties in the final 3:25. Munnings connected on a three-pointer to tie the game at 65-65 with 25 seconds left. SFA called timeout with 11 seconds remaining to set-up a final shot. Shannon Bogues missed a three-point attempt from the left wing and the ball was batted back to Augustin, who was standing behind the top of the circle, and he buried the wide open three-pointer as time expired.
 
"That's a tough way to lose a game, but we're getting better as a basketball team," ULM head coach Keith Richard said. "We gave ourselves a chance to win on the road against a good team. There's no need to hang our heads. We worked hard in that game and came up a little short. It felt like a conference road game, so we'll learn from this experience."
 
Jean-Pierre led three Warhawks in double-figure scoring with 19 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field, including 2-of-4 from three-point range. Munnings hit 6-of-11 shots from the floor, including 2-of-3 from behind the three-point arc, and finished with 16 points and a team-high eight rebounds. McDaniel had 14 points and seven rebounds before fouling out with 1:21 left in the game.
 
ULM (3-4) outrebounded the Lumberjacks, 33-31. The Warhawks connected on 8-of-17 (.471) three-point field-goal attempts, including 5-of-9 (.556) in the second half.
 
SFA placed five players in double figures, including Holyfield who scored 14 of his game-high 24 points in the second half. Holyfield hit 8-of-9 field-goal attempts, including 4-of-5 from three-point range. Gilmore netted 10 of his 11 points in the second half. The Lumberjacks outscored ULM in the paint, 26-16.
 
ULM returns to action on Friday, Dec. 8 at Jacksonville State, with tipoff set for 7 p.m.