College basketball roundup: Norview High grad Jahn Hines’ career high 39 points spark No. 12 CNU to comeback victory

Senior All American Jahn Hines scored a career high 39 points Monday afternoon as Christopher Newport rallied for a 76 71 victory at Berry, near Rome, Georgia. The Captains (12 3), ranked 12th by d3hoops.com, improved their winning streak to five games by erasing a 54 41 deficit to the Vikings (3 9).

Hines, a Norview High graduate, scored 22 second half points. “That was just a fun game to be a part of,” Captains coach John Krikorian said on cnusports.com. “Jahn was obviously fantastic, but we had a lot of guys step up today and we threw everything we had at them.” A 15 3 run got CNU back in the game, and the Captains outscored Berry 35 17 in the last 11:35.

Grassfield High alum Toa Hollenbeck scored 13 points, Hasan Hammad nine and Isaiah Dozier eight. All three are freshmen. Hines had five rebounds and four steals. His younger brother, Collin, led CNU with seven rebounds. For Berry, which has lost three games in a row, Blake Campbell scored 21 points and Braxton Benham 20 (19 in the second half).

CNU will go to Atlanta to face Emory at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Pirates (4 9, 0 1) began their Coastal Athletic Association schedule by being burned by the Dragons (8 6, 1 0) before 1,123 in Philadelphia. Mate Okros, a graduate student from Hungary in his fifth year with Drexel, scored a career high 20 points to lead five Dragons in double figures.

Drexel shot 52.3%, including 45.8% from 3 point range. Amari Williams had 16 points, Kobe MaGee 12, Justin Moore 10 and Yame Butler 10 for the Dragons. Williams had six rebounds and Moore had five assists. Hampton’s Kyrese Mullen had 111 points and 13 rebounds, and teammates Jordan Nesbitt and Tristan Maxwell had 12 points apiece.

Each team grabbed 36 rebounds, but Hampton committed 16 turnovers to Drexel’s seven. In a game in Lynchburg played just before the Flames’ football team was dominated by Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl, Liberty (11 4) breezed past Boyce, a team from Louisville, Kentucky, that’s ranked ninth in the National Christian College Athletic Association.

Brody Peebles scored 25 points for Liberty, hitting 5 of 8 3 point tries and 10 of 15 field goal attempts overall. Zach Cleveland had 13 points, six rebounds and seven assists. Brody Madeira led the Bulldogs with 15 points. Max Abmas had 18 points and seven assists, former Virginia Cavalier Kadin Shedrick had 17 points and seven rebounds, and the Longhorns (11 2) won in Austin.

A senior who transferred to Texas from Oral Roberts this season, Abmas passed former Duke All American J.J. Redick of Roanoke for 21st place on the NCAA career scoring list with 2,785 points. Kade Douglas scored 17 points for the Mavericks (6 7)..