Zachary Hamilton scored a season-high 30 points, Troy Thompson added a season-high 23, and Tevin Bellinger scored 20 with a career-high 11 assists as the Prairie View A&M University men's basketball team beat Grambling St. 94-82 Monday night in the William J. Nicks Babydome.
 
In registering a season-high point total, the Panthers shot 60 percent from the field for the game (33-55), making a season-high 10 three-pointers.
 
"I thought we had unbelievable balanced scoring," said PVAMU head coach Byron Smith of the trio. "It had to be the best game of Tevin's career. I'm very proud of him."
 
The Panthers (5-14 overall, 2-3 SWAC) won back-to-back games for the first time this season and for the second straight game never trailed. Hamilton's 23-point first half sparked another fast start. He made 7-of-12 shots from the field, including 4-of-6 from three point range as the PVAMU shot a blistering 61.5 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes.
 
Thompson made three three-pointers in the first half in only 10 minutes of play. His barrage of threes over a four-minute stretch helped the Panthers to their largest lead of the first half at 18 points, 31-13, with just over 9:30 to play until halftime. Bellinger scored six points, dropped seven dimes and had three steals in the first half as PVAMU lead 47-37 at the break.
 
Grambling State (7-12, 2-4) cut the PVAMU lead down to seven early in the second half before the Panthers pushed the lead back to double digits. Bellinger's three-pointer off of a Hamilton assist pushed the lead to 54-42 with just under 17 minutes remaining. A dunk by Shay'rone Jett off of a Bellinger assist gave Prairie View A&M its largest lead of the second half, 61-46 with just under 14 minutes to play.
 
Prairie View A&M returns to action Saturday at Mississippi Valley State in a 4 p.m. game with a live broadcast on KPVU 91.3 FM.
 

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