Faulkner breathed easy for the first time more than a month Saturday as it closed the game on a 13-2 run to beat Mobile 69-59 and snap a six game losing streak. 

With the game tied at 56 with 5:27 to play, Nate Bradley sank a shot to put Faulkner on top. That sparked the game-defining run as the Eagles limited Mobile to only one field goal and a single free throw over the final five minutes of action. 

"The last two games against Martin Methodist and against Stillman here, in the last five minutes of those two games, combined they scored 20 out of 22 possessions. There's just no way you're going to win those games. It's impossible," Faulkner Head Coach Scott Sanderson said. "I'm just proud of our team for battling back." 

After a pedestrian first half on the offensive end, Faulkner found itself down by 11 with 1:06 remaining on the clock. Adnan Halilovic dropped a shot before Milan Skundric cashed in an and-1 opportunity to narrow the gap to 35-29 at intermission.

"The last two or three minutes was critical in the first half. It was an 11-point game. We luckily get it back to six. That was big," Faulkner Sanderson said. 

Faulkner won the rebounding battle 42-29 including 14 offensive boards. The Eagles turned the ball over 15 times but committed only five such miscues in the second half. The Eagles also shot 71.45 percent from the free throw line. 

"The second half, we start out we were scoring but so were they. We got it going and we got some stops. I thought Garrett got some huge, huge extra rebounds down there. Sometimes you've just got to dig out of it. You get in those funks that you don't play well on either end of the floor," Scott Sanderson said.

Skundric finished with 17 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, four blocks and a steal. Garrett Sanderson had 15 points and seven rebounds. Halilovic had 11 points and eight rebounds. Nate Bradley had 10 points and five rebounds. Tony-Toni Wright ended his night with 18 points and six rebounds for Mobile. 

Faulkner returns to action Thursday when it travels to Brewton-Parker before heading to Florida College Saturday.