Box Score PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Andrew Young spun free in front of the rim and scored on a layup with 8.4 seconds left to give No. 23 Pikeville a 71-70 win over No. 8 Lindsey Wilson Saturday afternoon at the East Kentucky Expo Center. 
 
Young, a senior forward from Philadelphia, led all scorers with 25 points and rebounders with seven.
 
The win, combined with Campbellsville's 79-76 win over Georgetown, gives the Mid-South Conference a logjam at the top of the standings. Four teams, including both the Blue Raiders and Bears, are within a game of first place heading into the month of February.
 
The game was tight all the way, with eight ties one single eight-point spread the entire game.
 
That came with 8:14 left when junior Kalen Kimberland scored on a layup to give the Raiders a 58-50 lead.
 
But over the next 3:24, the Bears went on an 11-point run that ended on a layup by senior guard Chris McHenry with 4:40 to play to put his team on top 61-58.
 
Lindsey, however, wouldn't stop either. A three by sophomore Chase Cox with 3:31 left gave it a 63-61 lead.
 
The game was tied at 63 and 65 before Cox nailed a three from straight away. It was his seventh triple in 11 tries and gave the Blue Raiders a 68-65 lead with two minutes to play.
 
Cox led his club with 23 and led it to an 11-of-21 performance from the arc.
 
Pikeville evened the score with 1:23 left when McHenry answered from the corner. Young gave his team a one-point lead on a free throw with 48.7 seconds left.
 
Senior Chase Spreen scored on a jumper in the paint with 32.8 seconds left to put Lindsey back in front 70-69, but missed the free throw that could have made it a two-point lead.
 
Pikeville called a pair of timeouts in the final possession, including one with 11 seconds left to set the stage for the game-winning basket.
 
The Bears shot 56.3 percent in the second half to hit 51.9 percent for the game. The Raiders, led by their blistering three-point shooting, was even better, nailing 55.3 percent in the game.
 
Young was joined in double figures by junior Trevor Setty's 18 to go with six rebounds. His last basket pushed him into 24^th place on the all-time scoring list with 1,082 points.
 
McHenry followed with 10 and a half-dozen boards.
 
Cox was joined in double figures by Spreen's 17 thanks to 3-of-4 shooting from the arc. Junior Wesley Hanspard missed only one shot en route to 13 points.
 
Pikeville will be back in action on Thursday night when it plays at Georgetown College at 8 p.m. Lindsey Wilson will enjoy a week off before hosting Cumberlands on Saturday at 5 p.m.
 
 
 
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