JACKSON SHOOTS DOWN ND 72-47

Jackson made the game of basketball look easy.

Notre Dame, on the other hand, made like salmon during spawning season.

Nothing came easy for the Bulldogs Friday night in a 72-47 home loss in which they saw Jackson make seven of its 10 3-point attempts.

Notre Dame (9-8) shot 33 percent from the field. From 3-point range, the Bulldogs hit three of their 11 attempts.

"We couldn't make the chip shots," said Notre Dame coach Chris Neff. "I'm not disappointed with the shots we're taking, we just can't get them to go down. We're getting the ball inside by penetration but we're not getting a lot of passes into the post."

Jackson, meanwhile, was hitting from everywhere.

If 6-foot-5 post player John Oehl who scored a game-high 17 points wasn't scoring from underneath, one of Jackson's guards was hitting from the perimeter.

After missing two 3-pointers early in the first quarter, Jackson hit five of its next six before halftime.

"The good thing with the threes is that we were wide open when we took them," said Jackson coach Steve Burk. "We didn't take one bad 3-pointer tonight. I thought we got some real good looks because we passed the ball well. John kicked the ball out a few times. We've got to have kids get our post players the ball and we did that tonight.

"This is a good win for us. But it's just one game. We're happy to win, but we can't make too much out of one game. We've got to keep working hard."

Tory Meyr scored 15 for Jackson, hitting three of his four 3-point attempts.

The Bulldogs have now lost three of their last four games.

"I think we've got some kids who just recently have stopped believing," said Neff. "We've got to get everybody back on the bus. We've got some kids who have jumped off the bus."

Notre Dame kept the game competitive early and, despite turning the ball over eight times, led 14-12 after the first quarter.

But Jackson (9-8) went on a 17-4 run in the second quarter. Meyr hit consecutive threes in the last 1:40 in the second quarter to put Jackson ahead 31-18. A three at the buzzer by Notre Dame's Josh Eftink cut the lead to 31-21 at halftime.

It wasn't poor shooting that doomed Notre Dame in the first half. It was turnovers.

The Bulldogs turned the ball over 13 times. Notre Dame committed just four in the second half.

"I thought we played solid defense, especially in the first half," said Burk. "I thought we played a solid ballgame."

Notre Dame trimmed the lead to eight points midway through the third quarter but the Indians again pulled away, scoring nine of the last 14 points of the quarter. Jackson led 48-33 going into the final eight minutes.

Jackson scored 23 of its 72 points from the foul line

The Bulldogs were led in scoring by Adam Obermiller and Jonathon Ressel, who each scored 12.

Levi Bollinger added 11 for Jackson.