BOWIE, Md. – The Bowie State Bulldogs men's basketball kept the 2,058 in attendance on the edge of their seats all night and defeated the Chowan Hawks 68-63 on Wednesday in BSU's A.C. Jordan Arena. Bowie State improves its CIAA North record to 2-1, 4-5 in conference play and 9-11 overall.
 
Senior Omari George (Baltimore, Md.) led Bowie State with a team-high 19 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field and sophomore teammate Saiquan Jamison (Upper Marlboro, Md.) pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds in the victory to go along with eight points. Freshman Justin Route (Washington, D.C.) made his first start of the year and finished the game with eight points (tying his season-high), tied for team-high assists honors with three, accounted for a team-high three steals and had one block.
 
Senior Dayshawn Wells (Baltimore, Md.) tallied seven points while sophomores David Belle (Hyattsville, Md.) and Cameron Hayes (Upper Marlboro, Md.) chipped in four points each for Bowie State. Sophomore Yohance Fleming (Bowie, Md.) made his first court appearance of the season and came off the bench to score four points to go along with three rebounds, a block and a pair of steals.
 
Bowie State's Bulldogs trailed only once in the game at the 8:26 mark of the first half after a Hewitt 3-pointer, giving the Chowan Hawks an 18-15 lead.
 
Bulldogs senior Ahmaad Wilson (Baltimore, Md.) answered on the other end with a triple of his own, tying the score at 18-all. The lead would change hands five times over the next few minutes until a Route jumper at the 3:01 mark shifting the advantage over to Bowie State for good at 26-25.
 
Tim Hewitt poured in a game-high 30 points on 8-of-14 shooting from the floor and 12-of-14 at the charity stripe to lead Chowan (7-10, 2-6 CIAA, 1-2 North). Hewitt also led the Hawks on the glass with six rebounds in 40 minutes of play. Gus Rowland and Robert Gibbs were responsible for 11 and 10 points respectively for the Hawks.
 
As a team, Chowan finished the game shooting 46.3 percent from the field (19-of-41), 29.4 percent behind the 3-point line (5-of-17) and 76.9 percent at the free throw line (20-of-26).
 
Bowie State made 25-of-53 field goals (47.2 percent), 5-of-18 beyond the arc (27.8 percent) and 13-of-18 (72.2 percent) at the free throw line. The Bulldogs out-rebounded the Hawks 34-25, held a 32-18 advantage in the paint, a 21-16 points off turnovers advantage and BSU's bench outscored CU's bench 17-6.
 
Bowie State men's basketball hit the road this weekend, making a stop at nationally ranked Virginia State University for a 4 p.m. tipoff in the Multipurpose Center on the VSU campus. This game will be nationally televised on the Aspire Network.