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Portland, OR - The Big Sky Conference's leading scorer brought all of his game to the Stott Center on Saturday night and it produced a win. Northern Arizona's Cameron Jones scored 25 points and led a defeat of the Portland State Vikings, 71-59.

Jones added seven rebounds and four assists as his Lumberjacks' team shot .596 from the field in a wire-to-wire win.

It was a disappointing loss for an undermanned Viking team that was coming off a Thursday win over Weber State. PSU was back to just nine healthy bodies again. Forward Chehales Tapscott missed the game with a knee injury suffered at the end of the win over Weber State. He is out indefinitely. Center Nate Lozeau missed his second game was a left ankle sprain and is expected to be out another week.

The Vikings fell behind 14-2 by the 13:39 mark of the first half. The lead grew as Portland State suffered a scoring drought of five minutes and 33 seconds. NAU was up 25-7 before Charles Odum finally made a driving three-point play with 7:10 left in the half.

The Vikings had made just 2-16 shots prior to that and committed 11 turnovers.

By halftime, PSU was just 5-24 shooting with 13 turnovers. NAU made 13-24 in the half and led 34-18 at intermission.

Portland State never got closer than 10 in the second half. NAU's lead grew to as many as 22 with 8:26 remaining.

Jones made 10-15 shots for the 'Jacks, including 3-3 from three-point range. Gabe Rogers added 16 points and Stallon Saldivar handed out eight assists. NAU improved to 11-8 on the year, 3-4 in the Big Sky Conference.

Odum led the Vikings with 16 points and a career-high nine rebounds. Melvin Jones added 11 points.

The Vikings managed just 22-57 from the field (.386) and 4-14 from three-point range (.286). The Lumberjacks were 28-47 (.596) and 8-17 (.471).

PSU dropped into a tie with NAU at 3-4 in the Big Sky. The Vikings are 10-9 overall.

GAME NOTES: Northern Arizona has now won three straight in the series with PSU… the Vikings are 7-3 at home overall.  Portland State was  Chris Harriel's streak of 16 straight games scoring in double figures came to an end. Harriel had eight points and seven rebounds… the Vikings travel to Eastern Washington for a Thursday night game which airs on Freedom 970 AM. Tip off is 7 p.m. Then return home on Saturday against Sacramento State.