Box Score

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Despite a career-high seven 3-pointers from senior guard Blake Martinez to go along with a game-high 27 points, Millsaps dropped its Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference opener to Colorado College Friday night, 68-61.

Suffering their third-straight loss, the Majors fell to 1-4, while the Tigers moved to 4-1.

Millsaps jumped out to a quick lead, scoring the game's first nine points but Colorado College weathered the storm and tied the game 20-20 before going on a 14-7 run to close out the first half with a 34-27 lead.

The Tigers' Chris Rose scored 20 of his team-leading 26 points in the opening half, shooting 8-for-10 from the field, while as a team CC shot a stifling 58 percent.

CC carried its momentum into the second half as they built a 16-point lead 53-37 with less than 14 minutes to play.

Millsaps was able to cut the lead down to four, 62-58, with 1:35 remaining in regulation after baskets by senior \#Cameron Varnado\# and freshman \#Quinn Lemieux\#, who finished with 16 and 11 points, respectively. Lemieux added a career-high 11 boards for his first double-double.

That was all the closer the Majors would get as the Tigers sealed the victory by converting 6-of-8 free throws down the stretch for the 68-61 conference win.

The starters from each team provided the majority of the scoring as the Millsaps bench outscored the Tigers' bench by a 4-2 margin.

The Majors will continue a six-game road trip Saturday as they face Austin College. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. following the women's game.