Eureka became the latest victim of Lafayette’s recent winning streak on Feb. 11, as the Lancers defeated the Wildcats 56-41 for their seventh straight win.

While senior Aareon Smith and junior Joel Pennington were held to just 11 and nine points, respectively, junior Luke Kreienkamp picked up the slack with a career-high 20 points.

Junior Nick Messer also added 13 points.

The Lancers had a tough time breaking Eureka’s full-court press early on and were limited to six points in the first quarter. But they made the necessary adjustments and went on a 22-6 in the second quarter to go into halftime up 23-13.

“Coach [Scott Allen] told us to catch and face and not just catch and dribble. We used ball reversal to shift the press, and skipped it diagonally to get an easy two-on-one basket,” junior Ben Harman said.

From there, the team held a double-digit lead for the most of the way as the Wildcats missed several shots around the rim and were unable to get back into the game.

At 14-7, and now 5-1 in Conference play with the victory, the Lancers will travel Francis Howell Central Feb. 12 for a game at 4 p.m.