TEXARKANA, Texas – The No. 3 Mid-America Christian men's basketball team had to fight its way back from an eight-point second half deficit to come away with a 90-81 victory at Texas A&M-Texarkana on Tuesday night.

Senior forward Ashford Golden led the Evangels with a double-double, scoring a career-high 26 points to go with a career-best 12 boards. Redshirt senior forward Cedric Wright continued his inhuman shooting pace, tallying 18 points on 8-for-10 from the field while junior guard Tony Dorsey notched a career-high 10 assists.

Mid-America Christian (10-0) and Texas A&M-Texarkana (4-7) went back-and-forth in a tightly contested first half with neither team holding more than a four-point edge through the first eight minutes until the Eagles went on an 8-0 run midway through to claim a 23-17 advantage with 11:32 remaining.

The Evangels battled back with a 9-2 run with a pair of Damarius Brooks three-pointers in-between a D'von Moore triple to retake a 26-25 lead with 8:21 left, but the Eagles once again retaliated with an 11-2 streak with a stretch of 1:02 to take their largest lead of the half at 36-28.

MACU managed to whittle the Texarkana lead down to four on a Wright layup with 10 seconds remaining to trail the Eagles 44-40 at the break.

While the teams were evenly matched in the shooting department with the Evangels outshooting the Eagles 45.2-to-43.6 percent in the first 20 minutes, Texas A&M-Texarkana was able to take advantage of the turnover battle, forcing MACU into committing 10 first half turnovers while committing just three themselves.

Texas A&M-Texarkana was able to push its advantage back to eight just 1:22 into the second period before the Evangels surged back with an 11-2 run featuring six Golden points on a three-pointer and a three-point play. Golden knocked down the go-ahead free throw with 15:33 remaining to give the Evangels its first lead since the 8:05 mark in the first half.

The Eagles were able to quickly regroup and take a five-point edge at 63-58 with just over 12 minutes left before Mid-America Christian was finally able to hit its stride.

A Dorsey three-pointer with 11:23 remaining started a streak of 11 unanswered for the Evangels as MACU followed with threes from Brooks and Moore to go along with a pair of Dorsey free throws, giving Mid-America Christian a 69-63 advantage with 9:17 left.

Texas A&M-Texarkana was able to keep it to a four-point game with less than two minutes remaining, but a Wright score followed by Moore's fourth three-point bucket with 38 seconds left extended the Evangels lead back to nine at 87-78, sealing the MACU victory.

Mid-America Christian's offense clicked on all cylinders in the second half, scoring 50 points on 16-for-32 (50 percent) shooting, 7-of-15 (46.7 percent) from three and 11-for-13 (84.6 percent) from the charity stripe.

Golden scored his 26 points on 9-for-21 from the floor and 3-for-9 from beyond the arc. Brooks and Moore were electric from the three-point arc with each player scoring 14 points and combining to make eight three-pointers. Moore finished the game by going 4-for-8 from beyond the arc with a pair of free throw conversions while Brooks tallied his 14 on 5-of-7 from the field and 4-for-6 from three.

The Evangels offensive distribution was on-point, tallying a season-high 26 assists to top the previous best of 20 set against Manhattan Christian on Oct. 26.

Mid-America Christian's Texas road swing will take them to Edinburg, Texas on Friday, Dec. 6 as the Evangels will take on NCAA Division I UT-Rio Grande Valley in exhibition play at 7 p.m.