It was a two-man show Wednesday evening at the Mack Sports Complex in Hempstead, N.Y., as Hofstra basketball standouts Mike Moore and Nathaniel Lester led the Pride to a 74-49 CAA victory the Towson Tigers.
Moore and Lester combined to score 47 points. Moore knocked in 28 on 9-of-16 shooting, including four three-pointers. Lester added 19 points and became the 30th Hofstra played to surpass the 1,000-point plateau. He also pulled down eight rebounds in the win.
The Pride, which snapped a three-game losing streak, improves to 8-16 on the year and 2-10 in CAA play. Towson drops to 1-23 on the season and 1-11 in conference play. The Tigers recently snapped a 41-game losing streak with a win over UNCW on Jan. 28.
Hofstra scored 35 points off of 27 Towson turnovers, which allowed the Pride to cruise to the win. A 22-9 Pride run late in the first half put the game out of reach. The Pride’s largest lead of the contest of 28 came with 20 seconds to go in regulation.
Towson’s Erique Gumbs scored a team-high 12 points.
Hofstra will host the Georgia State Panthers in a CAA conference game Saturday for a 4 p.m. tipoff.
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