Sophomore forward Chris Ameen (Broadview Heights/Walsh Jesuit) scored a game-high 21 points as the Baldwin-Wallace mens basketball team defeated Capital, 86-79, on Saturday in an Ohio Athletic Conference game in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Center in Berea.

The victory was the fourth straight for Yellow Jackets while the loss ended Capitals three-game winning streak.

For B-W, now 7-7 overall and 3-4 in the OAC, freshman forward Kyle Payne (Brunswick) and freshman guard Grant Fairhurst scored 14 points each while freshman guard Kevin Krakowiak (Valley City/ Holy Name) added 13 points.

Capital, now 9-4 overall and 5-2 in the OAC, was led by senior forward Scott Robertson with 19 points and six rebounds.

In the first half, the Crusaders started the scoring when Robertson split a pair of free throws at the 19:22 mark. They Yellow Jackets responded right away when freshman guard Krakowiak canned a three pointer to take a 3-1 advantage with 19:05 remaining.

The two teams battled back and forth until freshman guard Fairhurst buried a trey to take a 14-11 lead at the 13:15 mark. Capital responded with a free throw from Robertson and a three pointer by sophomore forward Spencer Niekamp to regain the lead, 15-14, with 11:35 remaining.

The game would be tied on four more occasions with the last coming at 30-30 with 5:06 remaining in the half. B-W then went on a 10-0 run to increase its lead to as many as ten points on two occasions. The run was sparked by Ameen and Krakowiak with four points apiece. The Yellow Jackets outscored Capital 14-4 over the remainder of the half to take a 44-34 lead.

In the second half, the Yellow Jackets continued their run when Payne made a pair of free throws and a jumper to give B-W a 48-34 lead with 18:38 remaining.

Capital then used a 13-3 run to cut B-Ws lead to four with 13:43 left when sophomore wing Michael Sommer made a layup. Fairhurst then canned his third triple of the game to start a 7-0 run and push the lead back to 11 with 12:48 to go.

The Yellow Jackets then went on a 13-2 run to increase the lead to a game high 17 points. Ameen and Payne both scored five points each during that stretch to spark B-W. Capital refused to give up as they cut the lead to six points, 73-67, when junior wing Kelly Winter made a pair of free throws at the 3:03 mark.

Senior guard Taylor Roth recorded career-highs in points with nine and assists with five while junior guard Promis Cabbil dished out a career-high nine assists.

B-W returned to action on Wednesday when it traveled to Alliance to play OAC-rival Mount Union in the McPherson Academic and Athletic Complex. Fans can listen to all of the action on either campus radio station WBWC, 88.3 FM, or via the WBWC Internet web site at

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