Box Score OLYMPIA – While the CRC Gymnasium was cold on the inside, players for host The Evergreen State College and Northwest University heated it up with outstanding long-range shooting. In the end, the visiting Eagles came out on top, 102-94, in a Cascade Collegiate Conference men's basketball game played on Saturday night.

The Eagles improved to 12-5 for the season and are now 2-3 in the conference, while Evergreen suffered its fourth consecutive defeat to fall to 3-9 overall and 0-5 in the CCC.

Evergreen junior point guard Frankie Johnson went off for a career-high 31 points, hitting 11-for-15 from the field, including 5-for-9 from beyond the arc, and he was perfect on his four free throws.

And incredibly, Johnson had to share game-high scoring honors with Northwest sophomore guard Dak Shagren, who was 8-for-11 from long range, 10-for-15 overall and 3-for-4 from the free throw line in scoring his 31 points.

The game was close throughout with 10 ties and 27 lead changes during its 40 frenzied minutes. Northwest's largest lead came in the closing minutes when a 12-0 run, highlighted by three-point bombs from C.J. Carter, Shagren and Tomas Ogbaslassie, turned an 83-81 Evergreen lead into a 93-83 Northwest advantage with 2:16 left in the game.

The Geoducks got within six points on a couple of occasions in those final two minutes but could get no closer. Evergreen's largest lead, incidentally, was four points in the opening minute of the contest.

Johnson got things heated up quickly, scoring the home team's first nine points on three jumpers and a three-point shot, and neither team led by more than six points in the opening half which ended with the Geoducks holding a 46-44 advantage.

The second half was more of the same as the lead changed hands an amazing 19 times in the final 20 minutes. With the game on the line in the closing moments, however, it was Northwest that made the crucial game-deciding run.

The Geoducks finished the game shooting 49 percent (34-for-69) from the field, including 47 percent (14-for-30) from long distance. In addition to Johnson hitting five treys, Donald Terry knocked down three more from way outside on the way to nine points.

Joining Johnson in double figures were Alix Hernandez with 13 points, Jordan Dam with 12 and Kortney Darby with 10. Darby, a 6-5 post, made his return to action after missing two games because of a sore knee.

Northwest shot 53 percent overall (31-for-58) and was even more impressive from beyond the arc with 58 percent accuracy (19-for-33). Ogbaslassie came off the bench to hit five of his seven long balls on the way to 19 points. Other standouts for the Eagles were Thomas Jordan with 17 points and six assists, CJ Carter with 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Nemanja Grujicic with 10 points, 14 rebounds and six assists.

Evergreen returns to action at 7:30 p.m. next Friday when it plays Southern Oregon in Ashland.