Box Score HAMPTON, Va. – Deron Powers scored a game-high 23 points, and turnovers doomed the Norfolk State men's basketball team in a 61-53 loss to Hampton on Saturday evening in the Battle of the Bay at the HU Convocation Center.

The Spartans were limited to just 44 field goal attempts, committing a season-high 25 turnovers to fall into a tie for third place in the MEAC with Morgan State at 10-4, 16-12 overall. Hampton saw its record move to 17-11, 12-3 in conference play.

Powers hit 8-of-12 field goals and also added five rebounds, four steals and three assists. Du'Vaughn Maxwell was the only other player in double figures with 12 points and nine boards.

NSU, which hit 19-of-44 from the floor for the game (43.2 percent), was led by seniors Brandon Goode and Malcolm Hawkins with 12 points each.

Hampton, meanwhile, hit 21-of-56 (37.5 percent) and had 16 turnovers as well. The Pirates held a big edge in points off turnovers, 26-7, and fastbreak points, 14-0.

NSU led for most of the second half, never by more than six, until the Pirates earned a two-point edge at the break, 25-23. Powers had 16 points in the second half, and an early 9-1 run put Hampton in the lead for good, 34-28, at the 13:18 mark.

Senior Pendarvis Williams hit a pair of free throws a little more than two minutes later to cut the deficit to two, but Hampton scored the next eight points. After senior Anell Alexis made it 45-41 in favor of the Pirates with six and a half to go, Hampton scored seven straight and never led by fewer than six points the rest of the way.

The Spartans had 16 of their 25 turnovers in the second half.

Alexis finished with 11 points as he and Goode combined to shoot 11-of-22 and take exactly half of NSU's field goal attempts on the night.

Goode led Norfolk State with eight boards to help the Spartans end with a 35-30 edge on the glass.

The Spartans started off strong in the first half, as Hawkins drained a trey on NSU's first possession. Hampton stayed within four points until a layup from Goode at the 9:00 mark gave the Spartans a 17-11 lead. The Pirates tied it up several more times and then twice took a two point lead near the end of the half.

Both teams shot just four free throws each in the first half but combined for 35 in the second.

NSU will return home to face UMES on Monday at 8 p.m. at Joseph Echols Hall.