ANDERSON, S.C. - Led by freshman Jeremy Bouton's career-high 19 points, the Anderson men's basketball team had four players reach double figures in the scoring column, but the Trojans wrapped up a three-game homestand by falling to Queens, 75-64, in South Atlantic Conference action Saturday afternoon at the Abney Athletic Center.

Anderson slipped to 2-5 overall and 1-1 in the conference with its second consecutive setback, while unbeaten Queens moved to 7-0 overall and 2-0 in league play with its third straight victory over the Trojans.

Bouton also pulled down a career-high seven rebounds, while going 7-of-13 from the field, including 5-of-9 from beyond the arc. Sophomore guard Maurice Howard added 16 points, three assists and four rebounds, with freshman guard Randall Shaw tossing in 13 points and grabbing five rebounds. Junior center Rakish Taylor posted his second straight double-double and third of the season with 12 points and a game-best 14 rebounds, with nine of the boards coming on the offensive glass.

Queens' Sean Morgan led all players with 30 points on 14-of-23 shooting from the field, while the First-Team All-SAC selection also recorded a team-high nine rebounds. Senior Rob Lewis and sophomore Todd Withers added 12 points apiece for the Royals.

Bouton scored 11 straight points for the Trojans during a five-minute span of the first half that helped Anderson turn an early four-point deficit into their largest lead of the contest, at 19-12, with just less than 12 minutes left in the half.

But Queens' responded with a 12-3 scoring run that gave the Royals a brief 24-22 edge at the 6:33 mark, before Shaw dropped in a pair of free throws to even the score for the third and final time of the afternoon, at 24 apiece. Royals' senior Marquis Rankin then spared a 6-0 run by the visitors that gave Queens a lead that it would hold through the remainder of the game. After the Royals built a 36-29 edge with 1:36 left in the half, Howard answered with a layup to set the halftime score at 36-31.

AU trimmed the Royals' advantage to just 42-41 on a Bouton jumper with less than 16 minutes to play, but Queens again countered with six unanswered points as the Trojans suffered through a scoring drought of more than three minutes. After the Royals claimed a 50-44 lead, Howard posted back-to-back scores to pull the Trojans within 50-49 with 9:45 left and AU again battled within one, at 54-53, but was unable to overtake the Royals, as they used a 7-0 spurt to build a 61-53 advantage.

The Trojans climbed within five, at 63-58, on two free throws from Taylor, but would get no closer, as Queens drained four consecutive free throws inside the final 37 seconds to set the final score.

The Trojans will look to get back in the win column when they open a two-game South Atlantic Conference road swing by traveling to Tusculum on Tuesday. Tip-off versus the Pioneers is slated for 8 p.m.