ANCHORAGE ? Marques Echols sank a floating jumper from the baseline as the clock expired Friday to lift 5th-seeded Seattle Pacific to a 58-57 victory over league rival and 4th-seeded Central Washington in the first round of the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball West Region Championships at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex.

Echols' shot tied him for team-high scoring honors with 12 points and ended the Wildcats' 10-game winning streak.

SPU (21-7), which also got 12 points from forward Casey Reed and 11 points from forward JoJay Jackson, moves on to face the winner of top-seeded Alaska Anchorage and 8th-seeded UC San Diego in Saturday's 7:30 p.m. ADT semifinal.

CWU (21-7), the runner-up in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, was led by 17 points and seven rebounds from forward Bryce Daub, plus 14 points from reserve guard Giovonne Woods.

Neither team led by more than eight points the entire night, although SPU controlled the action for much of the second half. The Falcons went on a dry spell from the floor, however, and CWU took the lead 55-53 with 4:08 remaining on a layup by Nate Jackson.

After an SPU three-pointer from point guard Jared Moultrie, the Wildcats again went ahead, 57-56, on a pair of Daub free throws with 1:40 left.

After a Rob Will miss with 10 seconds to play, the Wildcats had a chance to extend their lead, but Woods missed the front end of a 1-and-1. After a timeout with 5.2 seconds remaining, Echols took the inbounds pass near midcourt and drove all the way around the three-point arc and towards the basket, where his 5-footer dropped in almost simultaneously with the final buzzer.

Will, a first-team all-league center, had 13 rebounds and five assists for the winners.