NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk State committed a season-high 34 turnovers leading to 27 Elizabeth City State points as the visiting Vikings upset the Spartans 69-57 on Wednesday night at Echols Hall.

Marquie Cooke scored 18 points and Angelo Sharpless had 17 for ECSU (4-1). Kyle O'Quinn had 18 points and 15 rebounds for his sixth straight double-double for the Spartans (4-3).

In the teams' first meeting since NSU moved to Division I in 1997, NSU jumped out to a 14-2 lead, hitting its first four shots. Three of the four field goals were 3-pointers, and the other was a layup that O'Quinn converted into a traditional three-point play with 14:45 left in the half.

But those would be the last points NSU would score for 9 minutes, 5 seconds. Meanwhile, ECSU scored the next 24 points to take a 26-14 lead. NSU's next field goal did not come until an #A.J. Rogers# layup at the 4:31 mark, some 10:14 since O'Quinn's bucket.

NSU committed 16 turnovers in the first half and hit just 30 percent of its field goals (6-of-20) as the Vikings led 36-24 at the intermission.

A layup by Sharpless gave ECSU its largest lead of the night, at 42-26, with 16:05 left in the game. Each time NSU tried to make a run, ECSU had an answer. The Spartans cut their deficit to eight on two occasions, the last on a Pendarvis Williams jumper that cut it to 61-53 with 1:44 remaining. Williams then stole the ball and fed O'Quinn for a layup that would have cut it to six, but O'Quinn's shot got wedged between the rim and backboard, turning the ball back over the ECSU on the alternating possession. ECSU hit 6-of-8 from the foul line in the final 90 seconds to seal it.

Glen Patterson and Omar Jones added eight points apiece for ECSU. Sharpless had seven rebounds, and he and Cooke had four steals apiece.

Williams was the only Spartan other than O'Quinn in double figures, with 11 points. But he was just 2-of-10 from the floor as NSU shot a season-worst 33 percent (16-of-49) from the floor and just 24 percent (5-of-21) from behind the arc.

The Spartans host Savannah State for their MEAC opener at 6 p.m. Saturday.