KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Leading Rockhurst 35-30 at the half, Truman men's basketball took all of the game's momentum by scoring the first 16 points of the second period to go up by 21, 51-30. After that, the margin was never smaller than 10, and the Bulldogs won with a final score of 72-58.

Truman is now 6-1 overall and 1-0 in the GLVC while Rockhurst fell to 3-3 overall, 0-1 in league play and has dropped three of its last four. Leading the charge for the Bulldogs was Cory Myers (pictured) with a game/season high 19 points (12 in the second half), seven rebounds, three assists, and three steals. Dwight Sistrunk, Jr. and Connor Erickson also turned in big nights with 14 points apiece while Sistrunk Jr. added six dimes, five boards and three steals. Zach Fischer provided 15 huge bench minutes with nine points, eight rebounds and one block.

The first half can best be described as one of runs. Truman scored eight of the first nine points, four of which came from Sistrunk Jr. on a pair of layups. Rockhurst then responded with a 10-3 spurt of its own to knot things up at 11-11 with 12:37 to go until the break. The Bulldogs bounced back, though, this time with a 16-5 burst, and they were ahead by 11, 27-16. During that stretch, Erickson was responsible for eight points and Sistrunk Jr. had six more of his 14. After eight-straight points by the home team, the margin was back to three, 27-24, with just over four minutes left in the half. For the rest of the 20 minutes, the scoring was balanced (8-6), and the visitors had that five-point advantage heading into the locker room.

Coming back onto the floor, Truman's goal was to completely take the game over. The Bulldogs did just that by scoring the first 16 points of the second half over the course of seven minutes and 18 seconds. In the midst of that dominance, Truman was 6-of-10 from the floor, including 3-for-4 from behind the arc, with three assists, six of Myers' 19 and all five of Kyle Kanaskie's. From then until the final buzzer, the deficit for the Hawks was never slimmer than 10, 40-30, en route to the Bulldogs' fourth-straight win.

Truman held a decisive advantage in second-chance points (13-3), points in the paint (42-20), fast-break points (12-5), rebounds (45-31), and steals (9-3), while holding Rockhurst to just 36.8 percent shooting from the field (21-of-57).

The Bulldogs will now head northeast to play at William Jewell on Saturday with tip-off set of 3 p.m. inside the Cardinals' Mabee Center.

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