BLUFFTON, Ohio -- The Westminster College men's basketball team lost to host Bluffton, 80-60, Thursday afternoon in the championship game of the Bluffton McDonald's Holiday Tournament. The Titans (3-9) led briefly halfway through the second half before Bluffton (8-3) outscored Westminster 29-10 in the final 8:14 including a 20-2 run.

Freshman guard Christian Shea led the Titans with 12 points, while sophomore forward Adam Carswell came off the bench to score nine points and grab a game-high nine rebounds.

Junior forward Rob Briggs sank eight points to go with seven rebounds for Westminster.

Junior guards Andy Timko and Anthony DeFelice represented Westminster on the all-tournament team after they scored career highs of 21 and 17 vs. Pitt-Greensburg Wednesday.

Tournament MVP Mychal Hill led Bluffton in the championship game with a game-high 22 points. Brent Farley also scored 17 points to go with a team-high six rebounds, while Rob Luderman and Josh Johnson bucketed 12 and 11 points, respectively.

Bluffton led by as many as 11 points (39-28) in the first half, but the Titans came back and tied the game at 39-39 with an 11-0 run that concluded with Nick Lee's lay-up with 14:02 remaining, giving the Beavers a 41-39 lead.

Westminster held a pair of one-point leads at the 11:25 and 10:09 marks, but after Hill and Shea exchanged 3-pointers, the latter pulling the Titans within one point at 51-50, Bluffton made its big run.

The Beavers went on a 20-2 run that started at the 8:14 mark and did not end until they held a 19-point, 71-52 lead with 2:48 remaining. The Titans shot 1-7 from the field and 0-1 from the free-throw line during that stretch, while Bluffton was a perfect 5-5 from the field, including two 3-pointers, and 8-8 from the free-throw line.

Westminster returns to conference play when it hosts Waynesburg Tuesday, Jan. 4, at 8 p.m.