POMONA - The Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball team led at halftime and by as many as six early in the second half, but fell to Cal State Dominguez Hills, 68-59, in California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) action at Kellogg Arena on Thursday night.

The loss drops CPP to 7-6 overall and 3-6 in the CCAA, as the Broncos are nine games into their conference slate with nine to go. Cal State Dominguez Hills moves to 9-7 overall and 6-4 in league play. The Toros also won this year's first meeting between the local rivals, 80-73, in Carson on Dec. 18, thus sweeping the regular-season series for the first time since the 2007-08 campaign.

The visitors held an 8-5 lead at the initial media timeout, with the Bronco scores coming courtesy of a bucket by Dane Erikstrup, and a BJ Standley three-pointer.

A 6-0 run by CPP around the under-12 timeout, highlighted by a Tavian Henderson dunk assisted by Phoenix Shackelford on the fast break, gave the home side its first lead at 13-12. CSUDH answered right back, however, with a 6-0 stretch of its own.

Baskets on consecutive Bronco possessions by redshirt freshman Chris Gayles Jr., the latter his first collegiate three-pointer, tied the score at 18-18. The Palmdale product even blocked a Toro shot in between. A Shackelford triple following an offensive rebound put CPP back on top, 21-20, but the Toros again responded, with an 8-0 run.

The Broncos clawed back to tie the game before the interval, 30-30, on a banked jumper by Standley with under a minute to go, and actually took a 32-30 advantage into the locker rooms as Shackelford stole the ball and fed true freshman Jaden Winfield for a lay-in.

CPP scored the first basket of the second half, thanks to Henderson, and in fact took its largest lead of the night at six, 38-32 at the 17:09 mark, following field goals by Erikstrup and Henderson again. Colten Kresl's three-pointer sent Cal State Dominguez Hills on its way to a 15-0 run, making it 47-38 with 12:39 remaining.

Tay Aubry-Thomas finally snapped the stretch, but CPP did not get closer than five points over the remainder, with the guests going up by as many as 11 just after the under-four timeout.

That 11-point bulge came through a Jordan Hilstock triple. CPP held the Toros scoreless over the final 3:23 as the visitors missed their last four shots from the floor, but the Broncos could only counter with a pair of Aubry-Thomas free throws. The home side's last made field goal was a Shackelford layup at the 4:22 mark.

Henderson produced his second double-double for the season and his college career with 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. He shot 5-of-7 from the field and added four assists. Shackelford scored a team-best 14 points to go along with four assists, four boards and all three Bronco steals. Aubry-Thomas had eight points and seven rebounds.

Chris Seeley led three Toros in double-figure scoring with 14 points, and accounted for a game-high eight steals while grabbing five boards. Hilstock had 12 points and three assists, and Kresl contributed 11 points.

Cal Poly Pomona concludes a three-game home stand this Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29, against Cal State East Bay (4-12, 2-8 CCAA). Tipoff at Kellogg Arena is slated for 3 p.m., following the women's game at 1 p.m. Please click here for CPP Athletics' latest basketball spectator policy.

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Bronco Bits: Cal Poly Pomona is 424-172 (.711) overall and 312-125 (.714) in CCAA play under 22nd-year head coach and record five-time CCAA Coach of the Year Greg Kamansky ... Kamansky sent out the same starting lineup for the second straight game, with seniors Tavian Henderson, Phoenix Shackelford and BJ Standley joined by true freshmen Dane Erikstrup and Jaden Winfield ... CPP has used five different starting fives ... Shackelford played in the 101st game of his college career, without missing a single one since his arrival on campus ... Henderson reached double figures in rebounds for the fifth time this season (second game in a row) and eighth time for his college days ... Henderson now has 252 points and 199 rebounds in the green and gold ... True freshman Jordan Carpenter notched the first made free throw and assist of his college career, and pulled down a season-high two rebounds in a season-high 20 minutes of action ... Chris Gayles Jr. had five points, scoring for the first time since Dec. 2 ... The Broncos are 4-3 at home in 2021-22 ... CPP still leads 51-43 in the all-time series that dates back to 1971-72 (33-14 in Pomona) ... The Broncos began the day having won 12 consecutive meetings inside Kellogg Arena, since a 58-49 loss there on Jan. 15, 2010 ... The 51 wins are the Broncos' second-most against any opponent in their history, behind only Cal State LA at 68 ... The Broncos are 29-17 against the Toros in the Kamansky era (19-4 in Pomona) ... The teams split their 2018-19 and 2019-20 regular-season sets, with each winning twice at home ... Milestone Watch: Standley has 950 career points (581 at Saint Martin's).