WAYNE, Neb. - The Golden Bears (8-11, 5-10 NSIC)  dropped a low scoring battle on Saturday night at Wayne State (5-14, 4-11 NSIC)  losing 43-41. Concordia had a 10-point first half lead but a long scoring drought was the story of the game. From the 7:04 mark in the first half to the 9:53 mark of the second CU had just two made field goals and five total points. BOX SCORE

Wayne State's Vontrell Seroyer scored the game-winning bucket with 1.1 seconds to play on a lay-in. Concordia senior Brent Barz (Johnston, Iowa) missed a long range shot at the buzzer.

Kenny Olafeso (St. Paul, Minn.) led the way with 13 points on the night, nine of which came in a span of just over a minute and half. Peter Olafeso (St. Paul, Minn.) added 11 points and nine rebounds. Concordia got zero points off the bench on the night as the bench went 0-7 from the field. CU shot 30.8% from the field and got to the line just seven times. The Wildcats were not much better shooting 30.9% but outscored CU 8-3 from the foul line. Wayne State's bench scored just five points, all from the free throw line.

The game started with CU jumping out to a 11-3 in the first five minutes of action. P. Olafeso had seven of Concordia's first 11 points of the game for Concordia. Isaiah Thomas (Fridley, Minn.) hit a three pointer with just over seven minutes left in the first half to put the Golden Bears up by ten, 19-9. The Wildcats scored the next six in a row and held CU without a point for over four minutes to close the gap to 19-15.

K. Olafeso hit a layup with 2:04 left, the Golden Bears first basket in five minutes giving CU a 22-15 lead. Concordia went in to the half with a 22-18 lead. P. Olafeso led CU with seven points in the first half but was pretty silent in the final ten minutes. Brent Barz (Johnston, Iowa) finished with five points in the first half.

Wayne State quickly tied the game up in the second half with the first four points of the half. After CU took the early 19-9 lead, the Wildcats went on a 13-3 run and held CU to just two made baskets over an 11 minute span starting from the 7:04 mark in the first half until 16:16 in the second half.

The Wildcats took their first lead of the game with 14:02 in the game going up 25-24 after a made free throw. WSC's defense continued to give the Golden Bear offense fits as they held Concordia to two points in the first 10 minutes of the second half and taking a 29-24 lead.

K. Olafeso hit back-to-back to back three-pointers to tie the game at 33 with 8:21 left. He hit the baskets on three straight possessions giving him 13 points in the game, nine of them in a minute and a half. Both teams went scoreless for the next two minutes before WSC scored four straight to take a 37-33 lead with 5:28 left.

Concordia took back the lead for the first time since giving it up with 4:12 left as Barz converted a three-point play putting CU up 38-37. WSC took the lead back a minute later on a layup after a CU turnover. Cole Olstad (Elgin, Minn.) hit a three-pointer with 2:03 left to give CU a 41-39 lead. Concordia had a chance to go up by four with a minute left but Terez Van Pelt (Osseo, Minn.) missed a pair of free throws and WSC tied it up on the next possession. Van Pelt was 30-32 (93.8%) on the year entering play at the foul line.

After a missed three pointer by P. Olafeso, WSC's Vontrell Seroyer hit the game-winner with Barz misfiring on a long range chance at the buzzer as CU came up short in the end.