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Complete
Box Score
EDINBORO, PA – In a game that featured
several large swings in momentum, Edinboro had the last run, a
14-0 burst, and came away with a 67-60 win over local rival Gannon
on Monday night at McComb Fieldhouse. Both teams are now 2-1.
Edinboro has now won three straight games
against the Golden Knights, but it certainly didn’t come
easy. The Fighting Scots led the entire first half and built the
lead to 15 points at 28-13 with 2:42 remaining. That came thanks
to a 9-0 run, with Joseph Jones (Erie, PA/Cathedral Prep)
contributing five points. Edinboro would settle for a 31-19 lead
at the half, holding Gannon to 21.9 percent shooting from the
floor and forcing 11 turnovers.
The Golden Knights came out the locker room on
fire, however, and thanks to a 17-2 run that included four
three-pointers, grabbed a 36-33 lead with 16:28 to play. The
Gannon lead grew to nine points at 49-40 with 10:58 remaining.
Gannon still maintained a six-point margin at
57-51 with 3:17 left after hitting another three-pointer, the
sixth of the half. Edinboro responded with 14 straight points for
a 65-57 lead with just 29 ticks remaining. Devon Knight’s
(Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills) three-pointer from the corner started
the run, and Knight then scored on a conventional three-point play
to knot the contest at 57-57 with 2:11 left.
After a pair of Gannon misses, Kyree Brown
(Philadelphia, PA/Friends Central) rebounded his own miss and
layed it in for a 59-57 lead at 1:48. Brown added another layup
following a Gannon missed three-pointer to make it 61-57 at the
1:14 mark.
Up until that point Edinboro had made just 8 of
22 free throws, but Jones and Ryan McLemore (Cleveland, OH/St.
Peter Chanel) made a pair of free throws each to boost the lead to
65-57. Gannon would make a free throw to end the run and a
scoreless stretch of just over three minutes, but McLemore put an
exclamation point on the win with a thunderous dunk.
Defense was the name of the game. Edinboro held
Gannon to 31.9 percent shooting from the floor, while hitting a
41.3 percent clip. Both teams struggled from the free throw line,
with Edinboro ending the night at 12 of 26 and Gannon an equally
dismal 7 of 20.
The battle of the boards was just that, a
battle, with Gannon prevailing 52-48. Daren Tielsch (pulled down a
career-high 19 rebounds to go with 13 points, his second straight
double-double. McLemore was a force inside, as the 6’9”
junior pulled down 11 rebounds and blocked 7 shots. Gannon’s
Aurimas Trusakauskas was able to top Tielsch on the glass,
finishing with 20 boards, but Gannon’s leading scorer made
just 1 of 10 field goals and was 0-for-6 at the line to finish
with 2 points.
Jones, a transfer from Roberts Wesleyan in just
his second game with the Fighting Scots, came off the bench to
rally the Scots with 15 points, 5 assists and 3 steals which
resulted in a pair of dunks. Curtis Ingram (Youngstown,
OH/Cardinal Mooney) added 13 points and turned in his usual solid
defensive effort, holding Tyler Stoczynski to 4 of 13 from the
floor. Knights and Brown finished with 9 points each.
Edinboro will have little time to celebrate its
second straight win. In the midst of a seven games-in-15 days
stretch, the Fighting Scots host Penn State New Kensington on
Wednesday, November 29. Tipoff at McComb Fieldhouse is 7:00 p.m.
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