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(Click here to hear Matt Unruh and Chris Cox call Jeff Crocker's game-winning three-pointer)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Feb. 9, 2008) – Jeff Crocker's running three-pointer as time expired lifted Oklahoma Christian to a 47-46 win over St. Gregory's (Okla.) on Saturday night.

The buzzer-beating win came just two days after the Eagles beat No. 20 Oklahoma Baptist on Jason Taylor's score at the horn.

The Eagles trailed 46-44 with :01.8 seconds to play on Saturday. John Powell inbounded the ball to a streaking Crocker, who nailed his first trey of the night from 30-plus feet out.

The win, OC's third in a row, sent the Eagle bench and student body into a dogpile near OC's bench. The Eagles are now 7-9 in Sooner Athletic Conference play and 10-13 overall. SGU dropped to 6-9 and 8-14.

Taylor had another banner night, scoring 23 points and pulling down 14 rebounds. It was the SAC leading scorer's seventh double-double of the year. Crocker finished with nine points and four assists.

"We were very fortunate. These wins have put some life back in these old bones," OC head coach Dan Hays said. "It was a great defensive effort and a very average offensive effort for us tonight. To win with Kyle Tefft only making one free throw is good."

David Jackson gave OC a 2-0 lead just four seconds into the game Thursday. The Eagles did not trail over the opening 7:09 of the half.

A Ryan Wilson triple with 12:51 left until halftime gave SGU its first lead of the game at 10-8.

The Eagles and Cavaliers traded two leads and a tie in the next four-plus minutes before SGU opened up a 16-13 lead by the 5:30 mark.

Taylor then rattled in a three-pointer from the top of the key with 4:23 left to make it a 16-16 tie.

But the Cavaliers used a pair of Kyle Lluko triples in the half's final 3:52 to take a 22-18 halftime lead.

SGU moved its edge to six points by the 18:27 mark of the second half.

OC narrowed the gap to one point when consecutive possessions resulted in three-pointers. Jackson hit for three at the 16:54 mark, then Taylor dialed from long distance at 15:45 to make it 27-26.

A 5-0 SGU jaunt followed that carried the lead back to six at 32-26 by the 14:25 point.

The Eagles trimmed the deficit to one at 36-35 on a Jackson three-pointer from the corner at the 10:15 mark.

After Wilson canned a three-pointer for the Cavaliers to make it 39-35, Crocker scored four-straight points to lock the game at 39-39 with 7:39 left.

Neither team scored for more than three minutes before Cha'son Holmes put SGU up 41-39 with 4:50 remaining.

But Taylor answered right back and evened it up again at 41-41 with 4:09 on the clock. The Cavaliers committed an inbounds violation that resulted in a Kyle Tefft trey just four seconds later. The points, which gave OC a 44-41 lead, were OC's last until Crocker's last-second heroics.

Lluko nailed his third triple of the night on SGU's next possession to once again tie the game with 2:46 to play.

Another scoreless span ensued before Patrick Jones scored in the lane with :03.3 to play to make it 46-44.

After SGU fouled OC with :01.8 seconds left in an effort to run the clock out, Crocker won the game in dramatic fashion.

Jackson had eight points in the win. Jones finished with 13 points while Lluko had 11.

OC takes on Wayland Baptist (Texas) on Thursday at the Eagles' Nest. The women's game is set for a 6 p.m. tip followed by the men's contest at 8 p.m.