Eastern Michigan's Brandon Bowdry, a junior forward, works for room under the basket Sunday against Western Michigan. Bowdry finished with 18 points to lead the Eagles to a 66-52 victory against Western. (Photo: Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com)
Bowdry also had 12 rebounds for the Eastern Michigan basketball team (13-12, 5-7), who never trailed in the Mid-American Conference contest. Justin Dobbins had 17 points, Carlos Medlock 14 and Jay Higgins 12 for Eastern Michigan.
David Kool led all scorers with 22 points for Western Michigan (13-12, 5-7). Flenard Whitfield added 12 for the Broncos.
Eastern Michigan owned a 42-32 edge on the boards, although the Broncos' Donald Lawson led all players with 13 rebounds.
The Eagles led 31-24 at halftime. Western Michigan scored the first five points of the second half, but came no closer, and Eastern Michigan later used a 13-2 run to put the game out of reach.
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