Wayne State College used 55 percent shooting and a season-high 26 points from fifth year guard Nate Mohr to pace the Wildcats in a 78-61 Northern Sun Conference cross division men's basketball win at St. Cloud State Saturday afternoon.  It was the first-ever NSIC regular season win in nine tries at St. Cloud for the Wildcats, who improved to 15-7 and 10-6 in NSIC play.  SCSU is now 7-14 and 4-12 in league games this season.
            The host Huskies held the lead early on WSC, taking a 10-5 advantage and was still in front 12-9 when the Wildcats used a scoring run to take the lead for good.
            Eight straight points by WSC – 3-pointers from Nate Mohr and Nick Ferrarini and a jumper by Jordan Janssen – gave the Wildcats a 17-12 cushion.
            SCSU was within one at 19-18 when Wayne State used treys by Mohr and Ferrarini again to take their biggest lead of the first half at 25-18 as the Wildcats held the Huskies scoreless for 4:44.
            St. Cloud State closed the margin and trailed by four at intermission 34-30.
            Wayne State used hot shooting in the first 10 minutes of the second half to separate themselves from the Huskies as the 'Cats made 12 of their first 17 shots (70 percent) to build a 22-point lead that SCSU could never recover from.
            The Wildcats used a Justin Eagins 3-pointer to take their first double-digit lead of the night at 44-32 with 17:48 to play.
            Mohr also had a hot hand in the second half as he connected on four 3-pointers and scored 14 second half points by the under 10 media time out to propel the Wildcats to a 65-47 lead.
            Wayne State ended the second half making 60 percent from the field (18-30) and finished with a 78-61 victory.
            Mohr scored a season-high 26 points, one shy of matching his career-high.  He was 10 of 13 from the field and 6 for 9 behind the arc to lead WSC in scoring.  Eagins finished with 19 points while Janssen ended with 14 and surpassed the 2,000 point mark at WSC, now with 2,010 points.  Ferrarini also hit double figures with 11.
            Wayne State had its second-best shooting game of the season making 30 of 54 shots for 55.6 percent.  The 'Cats sank 12 of 26 3-pointers and were 6 for 8 at the line.
            Ryan Bagley had 13 points for St. Cloud State followed by Luke Taylor with 12 and Dom Aguilar with 11.  
            St. Cloud State shot just 32.8 percent from the field on 21 of 64 shots.  The Huskies were 9 for 32 from the 3-point line and 10 of 14 at the stripe.
            WSC had one more rebound than SCSU 34-33 with Janssen grabbing nine.  Janssen, Ferrarini and Jay Saunders each had four assists while Saunders and Cody McCullough each recorded three steals.
            The Wildcats will be on the road again next weekend visiting Upper Iowa Friday night at 5:30 p.m. and Winona State Saturday at 3:30 p.m.