Box Score The Dominican University men's basketball team hosted the Beloit College Buccaneers for the Stars' 2013-2014 home opener on Tuesday evening, falling 71-69 in River Forest.

The Stars led 30-28 at the break after a 5-0 run to close out the half by Beloit College narrowed a seven-point Stars' lead down to two. The Buccaneers continued their run in the second half, opening the half with a 6-0 run to open a 34-30 lead on a lay in by Kyle Butke.

The Beloit lead grew to 11 with 14:04 to play as Steve McAfee connected on a jumper for two of his game-high 30 points.

A Kevin Tiongson (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) three sparked a quick 5-0 run by the Stars with 11:39 to play and closing the gap to 47-42 before the Buccaneers responded with their own 5-0 run to push the lead back to ten at 52-42.

Dominican continued to chip away at the lead, pulling to within 54-51 after back-to-back buckets from Mike Bobek (Orland Hills, Ill.) with under eight minutes to play.

The Stars eventually pulled to within two after Logan Harris's (Pleasant Plains, Ill.) rebound and put back made the score 57-55 at the 5:30 mark but the Buccaneers scored the next four points, including an and-one for McAfee with 4:34 to play.

A pull-up jumper for McAfee with 2:00 remaining extended the Beloit lead back up to eight at 69-61 and the Buccaneers then held on for the non-conference victory.

Harris led the Stars with 14 points on 5-for-9 shooting, going 1-for-3 from three-point distance and pulling down a team-high seven rebounds. Tiongson added 13 points off the bench while Taylor DeRoo (Holland, Mich.) scored 11 and Jay Harris (Detroit, Mich.) chipped in ten to go along with five assists in the losing effort.

The Stars were outrebounded 37-26, giving up 13 second chance points to the Buccaneers on 12 offensive rebounds.

Beloit also capitalized on 19 Dominican turnovers, scoring 30 points off of turnovers while the Stars managed just 11 points on 15 Beloit turnovers.

The loss drops Dominican to 0-2 on the season with the Stars headed down south to take on the Greenville College Panthers and Webster University Gorloks on Saturday and Sunday.