News Release

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In his first game in over a month, sophomore forward Jake Meisler poured in 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his third career double-double to lead Capital University's men's basketball team past Heidelberg College, 80-68, in an Ohio Athletic Conference matchup in Columbus, Ohio.

With the victory, the Crusaders snap a three-game losing streak and improve to 7-10 on the year, 4-7 in the OAC. Heidelberg falls to 7-11, 3-8 in the conference.

At the 4:34 mark in the first half, the Student Princes took a 14-point lead at 32-18 on an Andrew Lemmon foul shot, but the Crusaders crawled back to get within seven as they went into the locker room.

Capital shot just 30-percent in the first half, but got solid efforts from Meisler and freshman guard Nate Stahl who ended up with 13 and 11 points respectively in the first half.

With a 9-0 run that spanned three minutes of the second half, the Crusaders took the lead from Heidelberg that was propelled by four markers from sophomore point guard Pat Stolly and gave Capital a 51-46 advantage.

The Crusaders would not relinquish the lead from that point on as they outscored the the Student Princes 51-32 in the second period to win the contest.

Stolly scored a career-high 15 points and Stahl chipped in with 17 markers and had two steals.

Capital had a season-low eight turnovers and shot 66 percent from the free-throw line.