Kingsville, Texas – The Angelo State men's basketball team opened Lone Star Conference play on Thursday evening with an 85-81 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville inside the Gil E. Steinke Physical Education Center.

Two Rams – Kevon Godwin and Trey Farrer – scored more than 20 points as the win marks the first overtime win for head coach Vinay Patel at ASU in his first game to go beyond regulation.

The Rams shot 50.8 percent from the field and held the Javelinas to a 37.7 percent shooting mark from the field.

Godwin led all players with 25 points on 7-for-13 shooting from the floor and 3-for-7 from three-point range. The senior guard, who played a career-high 42 minutes, made eight of his nine free throw attempts; as a team, the Rams shot 80 percent from the charity stripe. Defensively, Godwin led the team with three steals.

Farrer scored 21 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds as the Rams out-rebounded the Javelinas 40-35.

Godwin and Farrer, each eclipsing 20 points, is the first time that ASU has had two players score more than 20 points in a single game under Patel.

In his return from injury, Keyshawn Embery-Simpson scored 13 points. Shemar Smith had ten points and added six rebounds.

DJ Basey had nine points and six rebounds in seventeen minutes, blocking a late shot attempt from TAMUK's CJ Smith and converting the dunk on the other end to seal the game for the Rams.

Riding a three-game winning streak, the Rams improve to 4-1 on the season and 1-0 in conference play. The Rams close their road trip out on Saturday in Laredo against Texas A&M International, who opened LSC play with a win over UT Permian Basin. Tipoff between the Rams and Dustdevils is scheduled for 3 p.m.