MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (Feb. 4, 2017) â€" One of the largest crowds of the season was treated to one of the most thrilling games of the season, but in the end the Milligan College men's basketball team came up short, falling to No. 2 Union College, 91-85, Saturday afternoon in an Appalachian Athletic Conference contest at Steve Lacy Fieldhouse.
 
Daxton Bostian led the Buffs in the scoring column with 17 points while Tyler Nichols chipped in off the bench with 16 points and Jacob Cawood scored 12 points and added eight rebounds. Milligan dropped to 11-14 (7-10 AAC) whereas Union won its 21st game in a row to improve to an AAC-leading 23-3 (16-0 AAC).
 
One of Bostian's biggest baskets of the evening came in the opening minutes of the second half. After trailing by as many as nine late in the first half and by eight early in the second half, Bostian helped Milligan erase the Union advantage with an old-fashioned 3-point play which put the Buffs up 54-53. It completed a 12-3 run, but Union would respond with an 8-0 run of its own only a few minutes later to regain the lead for the remainder of the contest.
 
Milligan cut it back to within one, 63-62, with just over 13 minutes left and had it down to three, 84-81, with 3:14 left, but could get no closer.
 
For Union, Paul Stone led all scorers with 29 points and nine rebounds. Three other Bulldogs reached double figures in scoring, including Gerrard Newby, an eight-time AAC Player of the Week, who scored 17 and added seven rebounds.
 
Milligan will next be at home on Wednesday, Feb. 8, for another AAC doubleheader against Allen University beginning with the women's game at 5:30 p.m. In the meantime, the Buffs' JV team will host the University of North Carolina Tar Heels JV team Monday, Feb. 6, at 5 p.m.