Box Score

DELAWARE, Ohio – The Cardinal men's basketball team dropped a non-conference outing Saturday afternoon on the road, falling to 10th-ranked Ohio Wesleyan University, 92-81, inside Branch Rickey Arena.

The Battling Bishops, who recently fell from sixth to 10th in the national poll after their first loss of the season, get themselves back into the win column and now sit 8-1 on the season. Otterbein, meanwhile, falls to 2-7 overall and will next head to the Christopher Newport Shootout Dec. 29-30 in Virginia.

Otterbein held a 14-13 lead five minutes into the game, but the Bishops out-scored the Cardinals 10-2 over the next-four minutes to jump ahead 23-16. A jumper from Chase Moyer kept the Cards within five before OWU embarked on a 15-2 run and open a 38-20 advantage down the stretch in the first half.

Ohio Wesleyan eventually took a 52-30 lead into halftime, and extended the margin to 27 early in the second half before playing to victory. Otterbein battled to get the deficit down to just 11 with 4:34 remaining, but the climb would be a bit too high as OWU prevailed.

Sophomore Grant Fenner led the Cardinals with a career-high 24 points, going 7 of 10 from the field and knocking down an impressive 5 of 6 from three-point range. He also brought down a team-high seven rebounds.

Fellow sophomore Chase Moyer was also solid offensively, also going for a career game with 20 points on a 6-of-12 effort from the floor.  Freshman Clayton Schaefer, playing just his second game after overcoming an illness to start the season, shot 5 of 6 to finish with 10 points.

Three Wesleyan players finished with more than 20 points, led by Claude Gray's 28 on 10-of-16 shooting. He buried five three-pointers.

Both teams shot 47 percent from the field, Otterbein shot 14 of 24 as a team from behind the arc and also won the rebounding battle, 41-32. However, the Cardinals committed 25 turnovers compared to just 11 for the hosts.