WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah University matched both its overall and conference win totals from last season with an 81-72 USA South Conference victory over Methodist Monday night.

The Hornets (4-13, 2-3 USA South) led from the midpoint of the first half, but had to withstand a big Methodist (3-13, 0-4) second half rally.

With Shenandoah taking its largest lead, 11 points, following a Nick Brown 3-pointer with 10:25 to play, MU scored the next nine points of the game in just 73 seconds to trail 60-58.

Fortunately for the home crowd, junior Dominic Chappell drained a 3-pointer of his own on the next SU trip down the floor and Methodist never seriously threatened again.

Chappell's '3', one of eight the victors had on the evening, ignited a 9-1 Shenandoah run over a span of 2:16.

From this point on, the Hornets lead remained at least five points.

Methodist cut its deficit to five points on two occasions in the final 3:11, the last 1:18 remaining, but James Bowens canned all four of his attempts from the charity stripe to seal the victory for the hosts.

Shenandoah earned the victory, its first in the past four games, despite being outrebounded 48-30.

SU forced 11 of the Monarchs 18 turnovers with steals and scored 30 points off of those Methodist miscues.

Thanks to its rebounding advantage, MU had 24 second-chance points to the Hornets 4.

Junior Avery Green led Shenandoah with 17 points while Bowens added 13 and Chappell 10.

James Whitehead and Bryan Hockaday both had double-doubles for the Monarchs. Whitehead had 18 points and 10 boards with Hockaday 12 points with 13 rebounds.

SU is back in action on Wednesday for a 7:30 USA South contest at Christopher Newport.