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Monday, November 20, 2006
Navy, Lehigh notch wins
While Bucknell was falling in Philly, the rest of the league was doing all right Sunday afternoon.

Lehigh 72, Sacred Heart 63 -- Lehigh shot 50.9 percent from the field, held Stony brook to 32.8 percent shooting and outrebounded the Sea Wolves 45-28.

So how did Stony Brook manage to stay within 9? Lehigh's 25 turnovers had a little to do with that. Seven of them were credited to freshman point guard Marquis Hall, who also had 7 assists and 7 points.

Sacred Heat also used the three-pointer to keep it close, hitting 8 while Lehigh was just 3 for 11 from the arc.

Regardless, it is a win, and a two-game win streak for Lehigh after starting the season with three straight losses.

Jose Olivero led Lehigh scorers with 21 points on 8 for 15 shooting. Kyle Neptune added 10 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Bryan White added 15 points and Jason Mgebroff, who has was held to single digits scoring (7 points) for the first time this season, had a team-high 9 rebounds.
AP | Box score

Navy 87, Stony Brook 76 -- navy outsocred Stony Brook in a battle of sharpshooting offenses. Stony Brook hit 50 percent of its free throws and was even more effective (11 of 20, 55 percent) from the arc.

Problem for the Sea Wolves, they didn't do much of a job guarding Navy's almost all guards attack. Navy coach Billy Lange used 8 p[layers in this one. Six were listed as guards. Only one -- 6-10 freshman starter Trey Stanton -- is listed as a front court player. Reserve Adam Teague is listed as a guard/forward, but stands 6-8. The rest of the Mids who played Sunday were listed as guards. ranging in height from 6-2 to 6-7 and in three point accuracy from deadly to can't miss.

OK, that last part is slight exxacgeration. But the Mids did knock down 15 treys in the win (on 29 tries). Overall they shot 58.1 percent from the field and 22 of 26 from the foul line. All but one of the Mids tried at least two three-pointers. Only one of those, freshman T.J. Topercer (0-2) failed to connect. The only Mid to not try a trey was freshman guard Derek Young, who only played two minutes.

Greg Sprink (12 for 12 at the foul line and three three-points) led Navy with 29 points. Freshman Chris Harris added 5 threes and 21 points and teague finished with 19 points, all but one on three-pointers (he was 6 for 8).
AP | Newsday | Box score
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