WINTER PARK, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle men's basketball team started the 2018-19 Sunshine State Conference season with a big road win on Wednesday night, outscoring Rollins by 10 in the second half to win  81-69. The Eagles (7-3, 1-0 SSC) got great second halves from Tylin Lockett-Fuller and Cj Henagan and held Rollins (5-1, 0-1 SSC) to a season-low 69 points and 42 percent shooting from the floor to knock off the Tars on the road.

A few days after suffering their worst loss in 20 years, the Eagles responded in a huge way, shooting 52 percent from the floor and connecting on 11 three-pointers to down the undefeated Tars. Lockett-Fuller provided a huge spark in the second half as the sophomore scored 12 of his career-high 15 points in the period, including eight straight at a key time in the contest.

Rollins held the advantage early on, going up five on a Hutton Yenor triple with 16 minutes to play in the first, but the Eagles got five straight from Luka Majstorovic to tie it before Elijah Jenkins nailed one of his four first-half treys to give ERAU a 12-9 lead.

The two teams went back-and-forth with Rollins holding a 25-24 lead before going on a 10-2 run to open up a nine-point cushion with 2:37 left before halftime. The visitors got a big three from Nick Heard that sparked a 13-2 run to end the frame for the Blue and Gold as the Eagles took a 39-37 lead into the break.

After Rollins briefly took a 42-41 lead soon into the second, Lockett-Fuller scored eight straight, starting with a triple and ending with a triple as he single-handedly kept pace with the Tars offensively. The teams traded buckets over the next several minutes, finding themselves tied at 58-58 with just under 10 minutes on the clock. Alston Jones hit a jumper in the paint to regain the lead for ERAU, and the visitors dominated the next five minutes, starting with a defensive stop before Heard was fouled on a three and made all three at the line to grow ERAU's lead to five.

With ERAU leading 65-62, Heard hit his second three, followed by two straight triples from Henagan as the Eagle lead went from three to a dozen in two minutes. With Henagan cleaning up the defensive glass, the Eagles pushed the lead to 14 with four minutes left and the Tars couldn't get back into it as ERAU moved to 1-0 in SSC play.

The Eagles put five in double-figures, paced by Lockett-Fuller's 15 to go along with five rebounds, three assists and three steals. Heard finished with a career-high 13 points with four boards and two steals, while Jenkins had 12 points and Majstorovic went for 11 points and six boards. All 10 of Henagan's points came in the second while six of his eight boards came in the closing period.

The Eagles host No. 17 Nova Southeastern on Saturday in the ICI Center at 6 p.m.