The Spalding University men's basketball team won their second straight game topping the century mark to beat Greenville College, 108-85, Saturday afternoon at Derek Smith Gymnasium to improve to 4-7 overall and 2-2 in SLIAC competition.

Spalding's James Turner fell two rebounds short of a triple-double tallying 18 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds. Three Golden Eagles finished with 20-plus points. Brandon Goeing and Rylan Rowe finished with 21 apiece, while Nick Trisko finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Tim Daniel paced the Panthers with 24 points on 8-of-19 shooting.

The Golden Eagles rolled to a 61-49 halftime lead. It was a close game through the first nine minutes with six lead changes as the Eagles and Panthers played to a 27-27 tie. A Goeing three-pointer jumpstarted an 11-1 Spalding run over the next three and a half minutes giving SU 38-28 margin. Spalding would push their lead to 14 points following a Rowe layup off a feed from Victor Cosby, but a Tim Daniel layup cut the margin to 12 at the break.

Greenville outscored the Golden Eagles 9-4 to begin the half cutting the SU lead to seven points. Greenville kept the Spalding lead at single digits until a pair of Trisko free throws extended the lead back to 10 with just over 14 minutes to go. From there it was all Golden Eagles as Spalding scored 12 of the next 14 points pushing their lead to 18 points following an Owen Mumphrey layup. Another Mumphrey layup would extend the SU lead to 30 points, the largest margin of the game as the Golden Eagles cruised to a 108-85 victory.

Up next, the Golden Eagles hit the road for the two-game road stretch. SU takes on Iowa Wesleyan Thursday, January 7 at 9:00 pm, and will cap of the weekend with a 4:00 pm tilt Saturday at Principia College.