HILO, Hawaii—Concordia's Brian Chambers scored 25 points, including 17 in the decisive second half to lead the Eagles to a 77-69 win over Hawaii Hilo on Saturday night at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

Concordia improved to 5-2 in the Pacific West Conference and to 9-6 overall. The Vulcans dropped to 3-4 in conference action and to 5-8 on the year.

Chambers nailed five of seven shots from three-point range and missed only four shots total (9-13). But it was his work in the second half that was the difference for the Eagles when he helped fuel two back-breaking runs.

Concordia led a low scoring first half at the break, 33-30. The Vulcans had held a 21-14 lead but the Eagles stormed back to tie it at 22-22 on a three-point play by Geoff Gerlach. Case Bruton scored nine of Concordia points in the final three minutes to help them to the three-digit margin.

The Vulcans shot just 31 percent in the first half and hit only one of nine three-point attempts, but were deadly at the free throw line to offset the coolness. They hit 12 of their first 13 and were 13-of-16 in the half.

A couple of minutes into the second half, Eric Wattree gave UHH a 40-37 lead with a three-pointer, but the Eagles promptly went on a 12-0 run to take their largest lead of the game at 49-40, and they would never trail again although the Vulcans would pull to within one point in the final minutes.

A Parker Farris three-point play stopped the bleeding momentarily but Chambers added his eighth point during the three-minute span to put Concordia back up 51-43 with 12:55 left.

A few moments later with CU up 53-49, Chambers went to work again nailing a long trey and two driving lay-ups (60-52). The Vulcans battled back, closing to 68-67 on a Brian Ishola basket with 2:50 left. A rebound basket by Ryan Reyes with 1:10 kept the deficit at two points (71-69), but that would be the last time the Vuls would find the basket the rest of the night.

Ishola led the home team with 19 points and seven rebounds. Farris added 14 and Ryley Callaghan had 12. Reyes led the Vulcans with nine rebounds.

The Vulcans will hit the road next week for a Saturday night game at BYU-Hawaii, start time is 5 p.m.