Men’s Basketball : Chapman Rallies to Beat Biola, 63-60

Paul Rollins made two free throws with eight seconds remaining in overtime Friday night to insure Chapman College’s 63-60 win over Biola in the opening round of the McDonalds Tipoff Tournament at Southern Utah State College in Cedar City.

A crowd of 5,200 in The Centrum watched the Panthers and the Eagles play to a 54-54 tie during regulation time. Biola led by three points, 59-56, with 2:13 left, but Chapman forward Jon Samuelson made a three-point play to tie the game.

Reserve forward Kelly Huston, who led all scorers with 24 points and 10 rebounds, then put the Panthers ahead, 61-59, with a layup.

Biola’s Tony Hicks made a free throw with a minute left to cut the lead to a point, and Samuelson missed the front end of a one-and-one situation to give the Eagles a final chance, but Joe Hutt missed a 10-foot jumper with 10 seconds remaining.

Huston made 10 of 18 shots from the field and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line, and Samuelson added 16 points for Chapman, which will meet Southern Utah, an 83-67 winner over La Verne in the other first-round game, in tonight’s championship game.

In other college action:

Cal State Hayward 68, Southern California College 67--Glenn Graham made two free throws with four seconds remaining to give the Pioneers the win in a first-round game of the Cal Poly Pomona Tournament in Kellogg Gym.

The Vanguards (1-1) trailed, 37-29, at halftime but rallied to take a four-point lead with two minutes left behind the play of John Harr, who led SCC with 21 points.

A short jump shot by Michael Harris, who led all scorers with 21 points, gave Hayward (1-0) a 66-65 lead. Harr made two free throws with 10 seconds left to give the Vanguards a 67-66 advantage before Graham was fouled by SCC’s Robbie Lucas and made the game-winning free throws.

Ken Bardsley added 14 points and Lucas had 10 points and 6 rebounds for the Vanguards. Cye Adams added 17 for the Pioneers, who advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four last year.

CAL STATE HAYWARD (68)--Stallings 8, Ward 10, Harris 21, Adams 17, Graham 2, Toyloy 10.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE (67)--Haar 18, Bardsley 14, Lucas 10, McAllister 7, Aviles 10, Myles 8.

Halftime--Hayward, 37-29.

Christ College Irvine 90, Pacific Coast Baptist Bible 58--The Crusaders won to advance to tonight’s tournament championship game against Cal Tech.

In the Fullerton Community College Tournament:

Fullerton 58, Santa Barbara City 47--Steve Snow scored 16 and Rocco Myers, Bart Hakeman and Colin Moss each added 9 as the Hornets (2-0) beat the Vaqueros in a semifinal game. Fullerton will play Grossmont for the tournament title tonight at 8.

SANTA BARBARA CITY (47)--Stevenson 13, Gama 14, Moore 2, Becker 4, McCoy 5, Baily 7, Garrett 2.

FULLERTON (58)--Buda 6, Snow 16, Fraser 2, Myers 9, Moss 9, Hakeman 9, Melton 7.

Grossmont 88, Long Beach City 82--Tryone Muldrow and Shaun Manning each scored 17 as the Griffins beat the Vikings.

Cerritos 100, West Los Angeles 50--Guard Marlon Wadlington scored 19 points and center Tom Tolber added 15 to lead the Falcons to a rout of the Oilers in a consolation semifinal game. Cerritos (1-1) will play San Bernardino Valley for the consolation championship today at 4.

San Bernardino Valley 120, Southwestern 101--Anthony Macon scored 19 points to lead the Indians past the Apaches in a high-scoring consolation semifinal game.