Box Score Tulsa, Okla. (Mar. 5, 2005) ???C A fourth time turned out to be the charm for Oakland???s men???s basketball team at the Toshiba Mid-Continent Men???s Basketball Championship as the seventh-seeded Golden Grizzlies led all the way to upend second seed UMKC, 67-63. Rawle Marshall (Detroit, Mich.) led Oakland to its first-ever win at the Mid-Con Tournament with a double-double of 25 points and 15 rebounds as the Golden Grizzlies advance to the tournament semifinal on Monday night against the Chicago State-Valparaiso winner. Oakland (10-18) got things off to a good start, taking an early 6-0 lead on a basket by Cortney Scott (Lansing, Mich.) at the 17:17 mark. Similar to the last meeting with the UMKC (16-12), Oakland was able to get high quality shots and the Golden Grizzlies were able to extend their lead to 16-6 on a Marshall basket at five and a half minutes in for two of his team-high 15 points in the half. Oakland continued to peck away at UMKC and a pair of Patrick McCloskey (Marshall, Mich.) had OU up by 12 at 20-8 with 11:25 left in the half. Oakland maintained a double-digit lead for most of the rest of the half until the final six minutes. UMKC???s Brandon Temple hit a three-point shot that cut the Oakland lead to nine at 30-21. That was the first of five straight points for the Kangaroos and when Tim Blackwell canned another long-range shot UMKC had cut the lead to six at 32-26 with five minutes left. The Golden Grizzlies halted the Kangaroos there and pulled the lead back to 10 points on a conventional three-point play by David Carson (Merrilleville, Ind.) with 2:41 left in the half. OU maintained that advantage the rest of the way and took a 42-32 lead into the locker room. Oakland kept its 10-point lead for the first six and a half minutes of the half, holding a 47-37 lead on a pair of Carson free throws. UMKC then started to make a run at Oakland, out scoring them 7-0 over the next two minutes to cut the lead to 47-44 on a Quinton Day lay-up. Oakland answered with four straight points to get the lead back up to 51-44 on a pair of Marshall free throws, but UMKC continued to take advantage of an OU offense that had only two field goals in the first 13 minutes of the half and cut the advantage back down to two when Mike English picked up a three-point play with 6:47 left that made it 55-53. A minute later the Kangaroos had cut the OU lead down to a point on Carlton Aaron???s two free throws that made it 56-55. Oakland responded with seven straight points, four on jumpers by Scott, to pull back out to a 63-55 lead with 1:17 left. The Golden Grizzlies had a chance to put the game away on free throws, but missed six of 10 in the final minute, allowing UMKC to get within three at 66-63 on a basket by Day with 12 second left. But that was it for the Kangaroos and Oakland had its win to advance to the conference semifinals for the first time. Hitting only four of 17 shots in the second half, Oakland held off UMKC at the free throw line, where it was 17-of-28 in the second half and 22-of-35 for the game. Scott and Carson each finished with 10 points for Oakland, which shot 47.7 percent for the game. UMKC was led by Mike English???s 21 points and 14 rebounds before he fouled out in the final minute.