DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Sophomore Tyler DeBord registered his 10th double-double of the year with 25 points and 14 rebounds to help the No. 4-seeded Embry-Riddle University men's basketball team to an 83-69 victory against fifth-seeded Edward Waters College Tuesday evening in the first round of the Florida Sun Conference tournament.

ERAU will now face top-seed and tournament host Northwood (Fla.) in the FSC semifinals on Saturday, Feb. 24th at 8 p.m., while #2 Warner Southern and #3 Florida Memorial will play in the other semifinal at 6 p.m. both games will be played in the de Hoernle Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.

DeBord was virtually perfect from the floor going 10-for-11 and his only three-point miss being on a pass attempt that hit the rim and reset the shot clock turning it into a shot.    He was 5-for-7 from the charity stripe and played 37 minutes of the contest.

The Eagles (23-8) controlled the contest from the start outscoring Edward Waters 23-8 in the first 11 minutes of the contest.   DeBord established his game early with eight points and five boards during the run.  The Tigers (13-16) closed the gap to eight points at 36-28 on Bobby Brown's free throw with three second to go before the intermission.  

Embry-Riddle used a strong opening surge once again in the second half outscoring EWC 17-5 in the first seven minutes to blow the game wide-open pushing the Eagle lead to 53-33 at the 12:59 mark.

Edward Waters managed to cut the lead to 10 points with 2:54 remaining, but DeBord came down on the next trip and made a layup.  Then after a Brown jumper, Murat Hisarkaya sank a pair of free throws.  Then after Lemund Sampson's three trimmed the Eagle lead to nine with 1:30 to go, Nick Miller put the game away with authority on a driving layup and the bonus free throw to push the ERAU lead to 12 at 81-69 with 1:08 remaining.   Miller closed out the scoring with a layup with 32 ticks left and finished the evening with 23 points (7-for-11 from the field and 9-for-9 from the line) and six boards.  Ryan Exter, who registered 33 points on nine three-pointers against the Tigers last Saturday, finished with 12 points (4-for-11 from the field and just 1-for-7 from beyond the arc).

Brown finished with 22 points and 12 boards to lead the Tigers and Ozzie Henderson added 15 points in the defeat.