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Complete
Box Score
EDINBORO, PA – With a strong showing from
the free throw line down the stretch the Edinboro University men’s
basketball team advanced to the PSAC Semifinals with a 67-60 win
over Shippensburg at McComb Fieldhouse on Tuesday night.
The victory boosted Edinboro, the two-time
defending PSAC champions, to 19-9 for the season, while
Shippensburg’s season comes to an end at 17-14. Edinboro will
face Millersville in the semifinals on Friday, March 2 at
California(Pa.). The Marauders edged East Stroudsburg, 61-58, this
evening. California(Pa.) earned the right to host the PSAC Final
Four with a 67-62 win over Clarion. The Vulcans will face Cheyney,
a 79-63 winner over Kutztown, in the other semifinal.
Edinboro entered the game ranked 12th in the
PSAC in free throw percentage at 61.9 percent. The Fighting Scots
ended the night making 23 of 30 free throws, including an
11-for-12 chart over the final two-and-a-half-minutes.
In a game which featured three ties and 13 lead
changes, Shippensburg grabbed its final lead at 57-56 with 3:49 to
play on a layup by Khalil Abdus-Salaam. Daren Tielsch (McKees
Rocks, PA/ Montour), who entered the game shooting just 48.2
percent from the line, made two free throws with 2:31 left to give
Edinboro the lead for good at 58-57. That started the successful
run at the free throw line as Edinboro scored its final 11 points
at the line. The Fighting Scots did not make a field goal in the
final four-and-a-half minutes.
Kyree Brown (Philadelphia, PA/Friends
Central) made one of two free throws to give Edinboro a 59-57
lead. Over the next minute-and-a-half the Red Raiders would go
just 1-for-4 from the line, missing the front end of three
one-and-ones. The Fighting Scots built the lead to 63-58 with 38
seconds left as Tielsch made two more free throws, followed by a
pair by Ryan McLemore (Cleveland, OH/St. Peter Chanel).
Jamal Williams broke the string for
Shippensburg with two free throws with 29 seconds to play, and the
Red Raiders had a chance to tie the game when Edinboro turned the
ball over with 24 ticks left. Chuck Davis misfired on a
three-pointer with 18 seconds to play, with Curtis Ingram
(Youngstown, OH/Cardinal Mooney) grabbing the rebound and
immediately getting fouled.
The senior guard, Edinboro’s leading
scorer on the evening with 21 points, calmly sank both free throws
for a 65-60 lead. Shippensburg missed another three and McLemore
salted the game away with two freebies.
The rematch of last year’s PSAC title game
started out in favor of the Red Raiders, as Shippensburg jumped
out to a 9-2 lead early in the contest. Edinboro grabbed its first
lead of the game at 15-14 on a Tielsch three-pointer, his second
trifecta of the season. The Scots went up by as many as five
points in the half before settling for a 30-29 lead at
intermission. The lead came despite shooting just 25.0 percent
from the floor in the first half.
The Scots ended the night at 33.9 percent from
the floor while Shippensburg shot 38.5 percent. Edinboro held a
41-33 lead on the glass and committed just nine turnovers. The Red
Raiders were guilty of 13 turnovers.
Ingram made 7 of 14 field goals, including 3 of
4 three’s, and was 4-for-4 at the line for his 21 points. It
marked his 11th straight game in double digits. He added 7
rebounds. Tielsch was the only other Fighting Scot in double
figures with 18 points, adding 11 rebounds for his 11th
double-double of the season. The 6’8” senior moved into
ninth place in career scoring with 1,354 points.
The 19th win gives Edinboro 64 wins over the
last three years. That ties the record for wins in a three-year
period. The 1973-76 teams also won 64 games in a three-year
period. |
