Alabama State holds on to beat Troy 74-68, earns season first win

WINSTON-SALEM, Alabama -- Alabama State made it interesting, but did manage to pick up its first win of the season with a 74-68 victory against Troy.

A 3-pointer from Shawntez Patterson with 11:28 left in the game gave the Hornets a 64-44 lead, which was also their largest lead of the game.

From there, Troy started to work its way back into the game by scoring nine consecutive points over the next five minutes to cut the lead to nine at 64-53.

A Stephawn basket and Denzell McDaniel three slowed the Trojans momentum pushing the lead back out to 69-53 with five minutes left, but Troy had one more push in them.

Troy closed the game out scoring ASU 15-5 to cut the deficit down to the final six- point margin.  Helping the comeback was ASU's problems at the free-throw line where at one point it missed six consecutive and only made six of their 19 attempts in the second half.

For the second consecutive game, the Hornets had four players score in double digits as Patterson, Brown and Phillip Crawford scored 12 points each.  Coming off the bench McDaniel added 10.

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