DEERFIELD, Ill. - Trailing by 19 points with 4:01 remaining in the game, Trinity International nearly pulled off the comeback, falling two points short in a 92-90 loss at home to the St. Xavier Cougars, Wednesday night inside Van Dixhorn Arena.

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Trinity (5-2, 0-1 CCAC) outscored their opponents 30-13 over the last four minutes, a run that included an 8-for-12 performance from the free throw line, and four three-pointers in the Trojans' final four possessions.

Junior forward Grant Corsi finished with a team-high 21 points on the night, going 6-for-11 from the field and hitting three treys. James Glass (12 pts./11 reb.) and Zach Kirschbaum (11 pts./13 reb.) each recorded double-doubles. David Chatman and Sean Smith came off the bench to score 12 and 11 points, respectively.

"We just didn't play very smart tonight, and against good teams that will bite you," said TIU head coach Boomer Roberts after the game. "I thought our effort was there, and our resiliency really showed in the last few minutes, but we are not the program that is okay with moral victories anymore. We're competing to win games, and we will keep working until we get there consistently."

Trinity jumped out to an 8-2 lead in the early minutes, with two straight field goals from Glass, and a dunk from Chatman on his first play of the game. St. Xavier (2-4, 1-0 CCAC) responded, taking their first lead of the night at the 13:08 mark, on a layup from SXU's Stanley Moore. The Cougars would go up by three until a 6-0 run from the Trojans put the home team back on top, with Corsi's free throws with 11:06 to play in the half giving TIU the 16-13 advantage.

Neither side would lead by more than six points until the later stages of the first half, as the lead changed hands seven times before the halftime break. The Cougars closed the half on a 15-4 run over the final 3:17, stretching their lead to ten, 42-32 at the half.

The Cougars came out firing at the start of the second, scoring ten unanswered, including a pair of threes, to go up 52-32 with 18:03 to play. The Trojans would cut the lead back down to 11 on a Chatman layup just over two minutes later, but SXU again pulled away to lead by 19 points with 11:27 to play.

The lead was still 19 at the four-minute mark, when Trinity began to rally. Glass' offensive rebound off a missed free throw and subsequent putback capped a run that brought the deficit down to 83-70 with 2:25 remaining. After getting a defensive stop, Chatman made it an 11-point game with his layup on the next trip down the floor.

Two quick buckets from Greg Carlyle and Corsi, sandwiched around an SXU turnover chipped away at the lead even further. A pair of missed free throws followed by another score from Glass made it an 85-78 game with 40 seconds on the clock.

St. Xavier would go 7-of-8 from the free throw line over the final half-minute to stay in front, as Trinity hit four three-pointers to creep closer each possession. Smith and Corsi each hit a pair of threes, but when SXU's Quinn Niego sank both free throws with three seconds left to make it a two-possession game, TIU were unable to catch up in time.

"We have a lot of character in our locker room, and got some great support from the Trinity community tonight. I have a lot of faith in our young men, and we will continue to respond to adversity as a tight family," said Roberts.

Trinity will bounce back with a pair of exhibition road games this weekend. The Trojans will face NCAA Division I foe Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Friday, November 20, in a game that will be broadcast on ESPN3.com beginning at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, the Trojans will face off with another Division I opponent, Chicago State, with tipoff scheduled for 2:00 p.m.