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DAVIS, Calif. – Tied at 70 apiece with 3:25 remaining in Saturday's Big West Conference game at the Pavilion, UC Davis scored seven of the game's final 10 points, which included five from senior economics major Garrison Goode, to defeat Long Beach State, 77-73, and extend the team's current win streak to five games.
 
Including Saturday's result, UC Davis won four of the last five head-to-head games.
 
The Aggies will enter their final league road trip, which opens Thursday night at Cal State Fullerton, with a 10-14 overall and 6-4 league record. Long Beach State will continue its season at 9-18 and 3-8.
 
Leading up to the final minutes of the game, it was UC Davis' red-hot shooting from three that helped it erase an eight-point halftime deficit and turned Saturday's contest into a back-and-forth battle until Goode came up clutch with his three free throws, which gave the Aggies the lead for good with 1:52 remaining.
 
Of the game's 19 lead changes, 11 took place after halftime.
 
Following Goode's last free throw, senior communication Siler Schneider stole the ball from Deishuan Booker on the 49ers' next possession, which led to a layup from the junior forward that pushed their team's lead to three with 1:27 left to play.
 
"Coach reminded us to box out and get that rebound," said Schneider regarding what head coach Jim Les told everyone during a timeout that occurred with 1:24 remaining.

"I told everyone 'let's keep pushing the ball and remain aggressive,'" Schneider added.

After Temidayo Yussuf cut UC Davis' lead to two after making one of two free throws, it was Goode who broke Long Beach's hearts by collecting an offensive rebound with 11 seconds left, and kicked it out to junior economics major Joe Mooney, who wasted another nine seconds before being fouled.
 
Even though the 49ers called timeout between free throws, in a last-ditch effort to freeze Mooney, he connected on both attempts to push the Aggies' lead to the game's final score.
 
"We just needed to remain disciplined on defense, and play our type of game," said Goode, regarding his team's play when it counted the most.
 
And in addition to nailing one three-pointer after another all night long — they hit a season-high 12 for the second straight game — the Aggies' type-of-game included phenomenal ball movement, continuing a trend that also took place in Thursday's game vs. CSUN.
 
In that matchup against the Matadors, the Aggies earned 20 assists out of their 27 field goals; against the 49ers, they earned another season-high 20 out of their 28 baskets.
 
For the first time since last year's road win at Cal Poly, six Aggies scored 10 or more points. In addition to Stefan Gonzalez' career-high 16, junior communication major Rogers Printup scored a season-high 14 (in addition to his career-high five rebounds), Goode finished with 12, one shy of a season high, Mooney recorded 11 with senior psychology major AJ John and Schneider adding another 10 apiece.
 
Schneider also led all Aggies with a season-high seven rebounds.
 
Booker led a group of five 49er double-digit scorers with 20, Mason Riggins was responsible-for more than a third of his team's rebounds by finishing with 11 (in addition to scoring 12 points).
 
Following Thursday's game at Cal State Fullerton, the Aggies will head to CSUN for Saturday's ESPN3 broadcast before returning home for its final four games, starting with ESPNU's Feb. 28 nationally televised game between UC Davis and UC Irvine.
 
 
 
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ABOUT UC DAVIS
Providing a small-town community feel while providing a world-class academic experience, UC Davis is home to more than 37,000 students and centrally located between San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and the Napa Valley.
 
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