PERU, Neb. -- Corey Standerfer scored 12 of his game-high 19 points in the second half for York College's men's basketball team, which shot 65.6 percent in the final 20 minutes of an 81-78 win over Morningside College in action Friday night at the Peru State Classic.

Dee Ellison added 14 points and made 10 of 11 free throws for York, which won for the fifth time in its last six games. Ellison made two free throws with 23 seconds left to clinch the victory for York, which trailed 43-28 at halftime.

York is now 7-4 for the season and its early highlights include a 71-61 win over NCAA Division II Wayne State Tuesday night. The Panthers are one of NAIA Division II's most improved teams after winning three games a year ago.

Morningside (4-3) got 16 points from Mitch Carstens while Eddie Marrs and Cory Gaston added 14 and 10 points, respectively. Coach Jim Sykes' Mustangs lost the game despite shooting 52.2 percent in the second half.

It was the third loss in the last four games for Morningside, which was outrebounded 36-28 and committed 16 turnovers. This afternoon, starting at 4 o'clock, Morningside will face Peru State in the final game of the Classic.

The Mustangs were 77-75 winners over Peru State on Nov. 13 as Marrs scored 25 points and made the game-winning shot with nine-tenths of the second half. Carstens added 15 points and nine steals in the triumph at the Rosen-Verdoorn Center while Garth Hamilton added 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Hamilton had given Morningside its biggest lead, 39-20 late in the first half. Standerfer, who scored 17 points in Tuesday's win over Wayne State, trimmed the deficit with a three-pointer to conclude the first-half scoring.

Marrs' basket at the 19:22 mark of the second half gave Morningside a 45-30 lead, but Darren Best's basket launched an 11-2 run for the Panthers, who tied the game 51-51 on Justin Nall's basket at the 12:47 mark.

The game was tied six more times, the lastest with 6:17 left to play on Gaston's basket. Standerfer snapped the 63-63 on a free throw 13 seconds later and Leonard Epps slipped into the lane for a basket that eventually gave York the lead for keeps.

Morningside trailed 79-72 with 1:42 remaining. Marrs scored the game's next four points, and Carstens lifted Sykes' club within 79-78 when he made a pair of free throws with 29 seconds left.