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Complete Box Score
EDINBORO, PA – The Edinboro University men’s
basketball team staged a furious comeback at Clarion but fell
short as the Golden Eagles came away with a 75-69 win on Monday
night. The Fighting Scots lost their second straight game to fall
to 13-7 overall and 3-2 in the PSAC West. Clarion snapped a
ten-game losing streak while improving to 6-12 and 1-4,
respectively.
Clarion held a ten-point lead at 63-53 with
2:44 to play when Edinboro made a last run. Layups by Daren
Tielsch and Curtis Ingram, with Ingram adding a free throw, closed
the margin to 63-58 with 1:43 to play. Bobby Franklin made one of
two free throws for Clarion, but Edinboro answered with a Devon
Knight jumper to make it 64-60 with 1:28 left.
Lamar Richburg’s layup boosted the lead
back to six points for Clarion, but Joseph Jones’s
three-pointer made it 66-63 with 55 seconds left. Edinboro finally
pulled to within a point at 68-67 with 35 seconds showing as
Tielsch made one of two free throws. However, Clarion would score
the final seven points, all from the free throw line.
In Saturday’s loss at Lock Haven, the
Fighting Scots could look at poor shooting as the cause for the
loss. But while only shooting 41.4 percent from the floor, not far
off the season average, the Fighting Scots rode a hot night from
Ingram to go 8 of 18 on three-pointers, and made 11 of 13 free
throws.
Unfortunately, Clarion was able to solve the
top defensive team in the PSAC, shooting 46.6 percent from the
floor. The 75 points represented the most scored against Edinboro
since Mansfield put up 80 points on January 13, a span of seven
games.
The loss spoiled a career-best effort by
Ingram, who made 11 of 15 field goals, including 7 of 9
three-pointers, and was 2 of 3 from the line for 31 points.
Tielsch was the only other Scot in double figures with 17 points.
He moved into 12th place in career scoring with 1,230 points. The
rest of the Scots shot a combined 8 of 35 from the floor, although
Ryan McLemore pulled down 14 rebounds.
Edinboro will seek to break its two-game losing
streak on Wednesday, January 31 when it hosts California(Pa.) in
the friendly confines of McComb Fieldhouse, where it is 10-2. The
Vulcans entered Monday’s play undefeated in PSAC West play
with a 4-0 record, and 15-3 overall. |
