Box Score River Falls, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men's basketball team earned a 64-63 victory at UW-River Falls Wednesday night in the Karges Center.  The Eagles improve to 13-8 overall and 7-5 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) while the Falcons fall to 7-14 overall and 2-10 in the conference.  UW-L earned its fifth straight win over UW-River Falls with Wednesday's victory.

UW-River Falls took its only lead of the game on an opening layup from Zach Smith.  UW-L later led 21-19 with 6:54 remaining in the first half when it went on a 13-5 run to end the half to lead 34-24. The Eagles' Luke Tweed and Braden Tice each hit a pair of three-point field goals in the final 7:09 of the half.

The Falcons cut the Eagles' lead to 36-31 with 17:13 left in the game, but UW-L scored the next seven points to lead 43-31 with 14:10 remaining after a Tweed layup.

UW-L led 47-40 with 10:50 left when it scored six straight points to lead 53-40.  UW-River Falls cut the deficit to 59-56 with 3:22 remaining, but UW-L's Lucas Collom made a pair of free throws for a 61-56 advantage with 3:00 left.  Skylar Cameron's layup with 2:13 remaining made it 63-56 before the Falcons' Ollie White and Smith scored on a layups to make it 63-60 with :27 left.

Cameron made one-of-two free throws with :04 remaining for a 64-60 advantage before White finished the scoring with a three-point field at the final buzzer.

UW-L shot 40.4% from the field, including 35.3% (six-of-17) from three-point range, and 84.2% (16-of-19) at the free throw line.

Tweed led the Eagles with 22 points and four steals while Calahan Skogman finished with 12 points and six rebounds.  Cameron had a career-high 11 points and five rebounds.  Tice finished with eight points and six rebounds.

Clint Rihn totaled five rebounds, four assists and four steals.

UW-River Falls shot 40.0% from the field, including 28.6% (six-of-21) from three-point range, and 68.4% (13-of-19) at the line.

White led the Falcons with 21 points while Sewer finished with 11 points and six assists.

UW-L returns to action Saturday, February 8 hosting UW-Platteville at 3 p.m.