The Belmont Abbey men's basketball team closed out the 2012-13 season with an 86-81 loss at Coker this evening. Coker, which will be seeded eighth in next week's Conference Carolinas Tournament, improves to 13-13 overall and 10-10 in Conference Carolinas, while the Abbey ends the regular season with a mark of 19-9 overall and 12-8 in Conference Carolinas.

The Crusaders finish the year tied for fourth, along with Queens in the Conference Carolinas standings, but the Abbey will host the Royals Monday night at 7:00 p.m. by virute of the Abbey sweeping the season series.

Tyshawn Good led all scorers with 30 points on eight of 18 shooting from the floor, including three of seven from three-point range. He also made 11 of 15 from the line. Jay Council added 21 points on eight of 16 shooting, including five of ten from beyond the arc. Belmont Abbey shot 49 percent from the field.

Coker, which seized control of the game late in the second half, shot 52 percent as Julian Nelson led the Cobras with 26 points. Larry Felder added 16, while Andrew Morris and Sharod Williams added 15 and 11, respectively.

The contest featured six ties and 13 lead changes. The Crusaders led 44-40 at the half as Good scored 20 in the opening period. The lead was as high as nine points, on a Council three-pointer, with 4:33 to play. Coker inched the lead down to two at 39-37 with 2:26 left, but the Crusaders scored five of the last eight points of the stanza to hold a 44-40 lead at the break.

In the second half the Cobras shot 51 percent as they took the lead for good with 2:19 left. After a Justin Kuhlman three-pointer with 2:32 to play moved the Abbey ahead 71-70, Nelson surged Coker ahead for good on its next trip with a running layup.

Coker's lead rose to as high as seven points twice, the last of which came with 23 seconds left, but the Abbey mounted one last charge. Council swished a three-pointer with 23 ticks left to close the lead to four, and after an Abbey foul, Felder hit one of two free throws to extend the Cobras edge to five with 16 seconds left.

Chris Davis kept the Abbey's hopes alive with a layup with eight seconds showing, but Williams closed things with a dunk with two seconds left.