ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. - In what very may well be the most physical game that the Dodge City Community College men's basketball team will play all year, the Conquistadors overcame multiple different spurts of adversity to come away with a 103-98 road win over Cowley County Community College on Saturday, December 10th. 

DC3 is now 9-3 and improved to 6-3 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference while the Tigers fell to 7-6 overall and 4-5 in conference play. 

Using a quick start, the Conquistadors would see their first three buckets of the game come from deep to go along with a Nick Noskowiak layup to go up 11-6 early on. After the Tigers would cut the lead to 15-11 with 15:40 left in the first half, DC3 would go on build up a 10 point lead at 26-16 with 12:51 to go in the first half and lead by as many as 17 before 57-43 lead into the locker room at intermission. 

Cowley would not let the double-digit lead get the best of them as the Tigers would come out of the locker room and score nine of the first 11 points to cut the lead to 59-52 with 16:51 remaining. As the Tigers kept cutting into the Conquistador lead, things would get much more physical with the officiating crew letting teams play on both ends of the court. A Brett Wright trey would give Cowley their first lead of the game at 65-63 with 12:10 remaining as things would then really start to get interesting. With things knotted at 77 with just over seven minutes to go, head coach Kyle Campbell would receive his second technical foul of the game and be ejected leaving assistant coach Trent Wolf to take over coaching duties. DC3 would re-take the lead for good on a Kourtney Ware free throw with 6:42 left in the game as the play on the court seemed to hit its tipping point. 

A total of five technical fouls would be called in the final 1:42 of action as DC3 would see their nine point lead get cut to three in the final seconds before Noskowiak would ice the game with a pair of free throws. 

"It was a good team win being without coach Campbell there towards the end" said acting-head coach Wolf in a post-game interview with Damon Post. "We had to rally the troops and our sophomores stepped up in a big way to help pull that game out."

Dodge City shot 48.4 percent (31-64) from the field compared to 34-82 (41.5%) for Cowley while hitting 13 of 24 threes (54.2%). The Conquistadors led for 36:25 and trailed for only 2:24 despite getting outscored 40-24 in the paint. Each team would get a large output from their bench players with the Tigers holding a 39-36 advantage. 

Sophomore Harris Brown led all players with a career-high 34 points on 10 of 14 shooting from the field and hitting five threes. 22 of the 34 points would come in the first half while Ware would score 23 points off the bench. Brandon Miller came up big off the bench, scoring only six points but pulling down 12 rebounds while Josh Boutte had 13 points and 14 boards. 

The final non-conference game of the year awaits the Conquistadors, who will travel to North Platte, Nebraska to take on the North Platte Community College Knights on Wednesday, December 14th at 7 p.m. Heading into Saturday's game at Lamar Community College, North Platte was 7-1 overall.