WINCHESTER, Va. - Top seeded Christopher Newport University ended the Shenandoah Hornets men's basketball season Friday evening with a 94-70 victory in the Dixie Conference semi-finals. 

CNU (23-4) got 12 points apiece from Carlos Heard and Jermaine Woods to take a 46-36 lead at the break; they also outrebounded Shenandoah (13-13) 26-19 in the first 20 minutes of play. 

Junior Chad Brashears (Hagerstown, Md./St. Maria Goretti) led SU with nine points while Michael Atkins (Winchester, Va./Sherando) added eight. Atkins' first point of the game also gave him 1000 for his career. He is the second Shenandoah player to crack the 1000 point barrier this season; Tyson Thompson (Keysville, Va./Randolph Henry) passed it with a 33 point effort against Presbyterian on December 7.

After CNU expanded the lead into double digits for the first time with 9:31 left in the first, Shenandoah was able to get no closer than six points the rest of the way. 

Any thoughts of an SU comeback were quickly erased by the No. 23 in the nation Captains; they scored the first bucket of the second and went on a 15-1 run from the 14:44 to 9:39 marks of the second.

Woods led all scorers with a tournament high 28 points while Carlos Heard had 16 and Mitchell Moffatt 12. 2003 Player of the Year Terry Gray also had a solid game with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

Freshman James Brodie (Stafford, Va./North Stafford) had a career high 13 points with Tyson Thompson (Keysville, Va./Randolph Henry) and Atkins chipping in 12 points apiece.

A complete box score and play by play can be found at http://www.su.edu/athletics/mb/200203/022803.htm