Box Score LAWTON, Okla. – Cameron survived a late comeback attempt by Texas A&M Kingsville to win 63-58 on Wednesday night at the Aggie Gym.

A late back court violation and an inbound pass turnover allowed Kingsville to get within one point of Cameron with 16 seconds left to go but late free throws would save the Ags at the end of the day.

The win for Cameron (11-12, 5-7 LSC) and losses by Angelo State and Eastern New Mexico pulls the Ags a game back from a cluttered three seed for the Lone Star Conference Tournament. If the season were to end on Wednesday night Cameron would be the six seed facing Angelo State. However, that could change with the Ags traveling to Angelo on Saturday.

Aaron Thompson paced the Aggies with 14 points and four rebounds; Craig Foster added 11 points and dished out eight assists, Will Cook added 10 points with four rebounds.

"Aaron was huge tonight," said head coach Nate Gamet. "He had 14 points, four boards and some big free throws down the stretch. You expect that out of your seniors."

Cameron dominated the rebounding battle 38 to 23 and shot the ball from the field at 47.9% (23-48) while Kingsville went 36.2% (21-58) on their end of the court. The Javelinas controlled the ball well with only two turnovers while CU had 13 on Wednesday night; TAMUK would convert 14 points off of Aggie turnovers.

After Jonathan Patino sank the first bucket of the game Kingsville scored 10 unanswered points to set the Ags back. It would take until the eight minute marker before the Aggies broke through with an 8-0 run to retake the lead 18-15 over Kingsville. Cameron didn't let off the gas pedal and rolled back, leading the Javelinas and took a 29-19 lead at the half.

Cameron maintained their double-digit lead until an 11-3 run got the Javelinas a possession away (41-39) with 11 minutes to go in the ball game. Kingsville would later even the game with CU three different times before the Aggies broke a 50-50 tie with a 9-1 run with 3:47 to go.

The game would come down to the wire after a pair of costly turnovers allowed the Javelinas to score eight answered to make it a 59-58 ballgame with 14.3 seconds left. A Kingsville foul put Cook at the line for the one-and-one and he would sink both to make it a three point Aggie lead.

With the clock winding down the Javelinas took one more shot at a tie but they would miss with CU rebounding and forcing Kingsville to foul Trevor Smith who iced the game at the charity stripe to win 63-58.

"You can really start to see that when we execute our gameplan and do what we're supposed to do, they're really good." said Gamet

The Aggies will return to action on Saturday to visit Angelo State for their final regular season road game.