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MOORHEAD, Minn. -- Sophomore guard Tyler Vaughan scored a career-high 23 points to lead the Minnesota State University Moorhead men's basketball team to a 93-69 win over Jamestown in nonconference action Tuesday night at Nemzek Fieldhouse in Moorhead, Minn.

MSUM improved to 4-0 on the year with the win. It is the third straight year the Dragons have started 4-0. MSUM is 21-5 in non-league games under Head Coach Chad Walthall.

Vaughan was 8-of-10 from the field, including 5-of-6 from three-point range, in the win for MSUM.  Junior forward Urbane Bingham had 12 points off the bench for the Dragons while junior guard Jordan Riewer had nine points and seven assists. Sophomore forward Ben Figini had nine points, while freshman Matt Nelson had a career-high three blocks to go along with nine points. Twelve of the 13 MSUM players who saw time scored.

MSUM opened the game on a 16-6 run -- with Vaughan accounting for 11 of those points -- over the first 4:27. Vaughan opened 3-for-3 from three-point range.

Jamestown cut the lead to 16-13 with 12:33 left with a 7-0 run of its own. The score stayed that way for the next 3:27 until sophomore Ngijol Songolo scored to put the Dragons back up 18-13.

Songolo's basket sparked a 13-2 Dragon run which stretched MSUM's advantage to 29-15 with 5:17 left in the first half. Riewer hit a three during the run while five other players scored two points each. Two foul shots by Bingham pushed MSUM's lead to 39-23 with 53 seconds left in the half, which was also the halftime score.

MSUM shot 48.3 percent (14-of-29) in the first half, including 6-of-9 (66.7 percent) from three-point range. Jamestown shot 43.5 percent (10-of-23). The Dragons had a commanding 22-9 edge in rebounds in the first half, including 9-2 on the offensive glass.

The Dragons opened the second half on an 11-5 run to push the lead to 50-28. Vaughan's two 3-pointers led the run for MSUM.  MSUM led by as many as 30 points on its way to the 24-point win.

Junior guard Malik Wood had eight points and three assists in 15 minutes off the bench for MSUM.   Senior Tarell Clark led with five rebounds for MSUM, which had a 36-29 advantage on the glass.

The Dragons open Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play on Saturday at home against Northern State. Game time is 6 p.m. at Nemzek Fieldhouse.

Steve d'Eustachio Stat of the Game: Tonight was the first time that the Dragons and the University of Jamestown played since the Dragons' 79-59 win in Dickinson, N.D. on Dec. 18, 2009. It also marked the first time these two teams have hooked up in Moorhead, since Jamestown's 86-68 victory over the Dragons on Dec. 3, 1998.