Oakland Pulls Away Late to Top Milwaukee

#HLMBB Scoreboard (Jan. 22)
Oakland 66, Milwaukee 53

Corey Petros and Kahlil Felder scored 18 points apiece to lead Oakland to a 66-53 win over Milwaukee on Thursday night.

Petros hit 8 of 15 from the field and Felder was 7 of 11 plus a perfect 4 of 4 from the free throw line. Dante Williams added 12 points for Oakland (8-12, 3-2 Horizon League), which shot 53 percent on 51 attempts from the floor to extend its win streak to three.

J.J. Panoske sparked the Panthers early by scoring Milwaukee's first eight points of the game. The host Golden Grizzlies scored nine unanswered points to turn an 8-6 deficit into a 15-8 lead, their largest of the half, with 10:19 remaining.

Milwaukee trailed 26-20 late in the first period before Steve McWhorter and Matt Tiby accounted for all of the Panthers' points in a 9-0 spurt that was capped by a Tiby three-pointer, to reclaim the lead (29-26) for the first time since the 15:55 mark. Williams' layup late in the period cut Milwaukee's lead down to one point at the break.

Tied at 39 early in the second half, Felder scored five straight points to ignite an 11-3 run and give Oakland the lead for good. The Golden Grizzlies extended their advantage to double figures with a 3-pointer from Williams that made it 62-51 with 3:12 to go and padded the margin down the stretch.

Panoske led Milwaukee (7-13, 2-4) with 15 points, Tiby added 13, McWhorter had 11 and Akeem Springs contributed 10.