LEBANON, Tenn. – Strong shooting throughout the night helped lead Campbellsville University to a 67-57 victory on the road at Cumberland University Thursday night to improve to 8-6 in Mid-South Conference action.

"We've got to be a little bit smarter late in the game, but a road game in the Mid-South Conference, we'll take it," said CU head coach Keith Adkins. "This time of year, you'll take them anyway you can get them … We did a great job of attacking them. We were aggressive and that's why we got out to that 15 point lead in the second half."

The Tigers fell behind by six points after a Brian Blackmon 3-pointer about seven minutes into the game, but responded with a 14-2 run to flip the score, 19-13. Jordan Myers scored five straight as part of a 9-0 run to start the rally and gave CU its first lead of the night with a 3 from the corner.

Cumberland pushed back with a 7-0 run to gain a 20-19 lead after back-to-back 3-pointers from Lester Gude and Elijah Gillis. Gillis finished the game with 15 points to follow Blackmon's 17.

The lead changed three more times before the first half came to a close. Darius Clement hit a 3 with less than 30 seconds to play and Blackmon banked in a shot just before halftime to cut Campbellsville's lead to 34-28 at the break.

CU opened the second half shooting 61 percent from the field in the first 10 minutes. Justin Ennis hit a 3 in front of an emptying student section to push the Tigers' lead to nine, 41-32 and the difference grew as high as 14 points, 58-44, with seven minutes to play.

Bryton Taylor hit a 3-pointer from the right wing late to push the lead to its largest of the night at 61-44.

The Tigers shot 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range and 77.8 from the charity stripe. Ennis led the way with 19 points and Addison Smith scored 10. Myers had 10 points, all in the first half, and Sean Schott had nine points and seven assists.

Vernon Payne was held to only seven points after combining for 70 in the previous two games. Adkins challenged Payne to help the team in other ways since he was being guarded closely and being kept from scoring. He posted five rebounds in his first 10 minutes of play and finished with nine in 23 minutes of action.

"I told him at halftime, if you can get a rebound every two minutes you play, there is the player I'm looking for," Adkins said. "We've got to see him start to develop as a basketball player, not just an offensive threat."

Campbellsville (15-9, 8-6 MSC) will travel to the University of the Cumberlands on Saturday for a 4 p.m. EST tipoff.