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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Patriot League teams came within three points of going 3-0 Tuesday night. Both academies picked up wins, but Lafayette dropped a two-point heartbreaker to Princeton.
Navy 79, William & Mary 63 -- Kaleo Kina and Greg Sprink combined for 33 points to lead the Mids. Sprink (5 of 6 FG, 15 points) missed just one shot all night. Kina (6-8 FG, 18 points) missed only two.
Actually, the entire Navy team shot it pretty well, going 27 of 44 from the field (61.4 percent) and 8 of 14 (64.3 percent) from the three-point arc.
Navy was in charge pretty much from the get-go. The Mids scored first and never trailed. After the game's only tie at 2-2, Navy went on a 15-4 run to build an 11 point lead. A William and Mary dunk at the 12:38 mark of the first half cut the Navy lead to 9. But 1:01 later Adam Teague hit a three to push the Navy lead back to 12 and it stayed in double digits the rest of the way, stretching as wide as 24 points in the second half.
Corey Johnson (10 points) also in double figures for the Mids.
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Army 79, Virginia Military 72 -- Corban Bates posted a 10-points, 10-boards double-double and the Army defense held VMI 33 points below its average as the Black Knights improve to 5-2, equalling last season's wins total. It is Army's best seven-game start in 12 years.
Jarrell Brown led Army with 24 points off the bench. Six-eight freshman Chris Walker added 23 on 8 for 11 shooting from the floor.
Down 4 midway through the second half, Army went on a 12-0 run to take the lead. The Black Knights hit 8 of 8 at the foul line in the final two minutes to preserve the lead.
Matt Bell finished with 9 points. It was Bell's first non-double figures effort of the season.
VMI, which averages 105 points per game, put up a Christl Arena record 43 three-pointers (making 11).
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Princeton 44, Lafayette 42 -- It is a scenario you won't see played out too often: Lafayette losing a game in which it outrebounds the opponent but shoots poorly. You'd expect the opposite from the Leopards, but that was how Tuesday night's loss to Princeton played out, right down to the final buzzer.
Lafayette, which had been outrebounded by a margin of at least 10 boards in its first six games actually won the battle of the glass against Princeton, 26-20. Perhaps the biggest of the 'Pards 26 rebounds was the one Marcus Harley chased down after Princeton, working the shot clock with a 2 point lead and 55 seconds to play, ends up tossing up a desperation three as the shot clock ran out.
That gave Lafayette the ball with 26 seconds to go, a two to tie, trey to win. After a timeout, the Leopards put the ball in the hands of sophomore Andrew Brown. Brown, who was 1 for 5 from the arc, tried to take it to the hole. Brown's off-balance runner wouldn't drop and Princeton came up with the rebound in a scuffle as time ran out.
Brown was not the only Leopard who struggled from the field. As a team, the normally good shooting 'Pards shot 14 of 36 (38.9 percent) from the field, including 22.2 percent (4 of 18) from the arc.
Matt Betley, who led Lafayette in scoring for the fourth straight game, had 11 points and a game-high 7 rebounds.
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Navy 79, William & Mary 63 -- Kaleo Kina and Greg Sprink combined for 33 points to lead the Mids. Sprink (5 of 6 FG, 15 points) missed just one shot all night. Kina (6-8 FG, 18 points) missed only two.
Actually, the entire Navy team shot it pretty well, going 27 of 44 from the field (61.4 percent) and 8 of 14 (64.3 percent) from the three-point arc.
Navy was in charge pretty much from the get-go. The Mids scored first and never trailed. After the game's only tie at 2-2, Navy went on a 15-4 run to build an 11 point lead. A William and Mary dunk at the 12:38 mark of the first half cut the Navy lead to 9. But 1:01 later Adam Teague hit a three to push the Navy lead back to 12 and it stayed in double digits the rest of the way, stretching as wide as 24 points in the second half.
Corey Johnson (10 points) also in double figures for the Mids.
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Army 79, Virginia Military 72 -- Corban Bates posted a 10-points, 10-boards double-double and the Army defense held VMI 33 points below its average as the Black Knights improve to 5-2, equalling last season's wins total. It is Army's best seven-game start in 12 years.
Jarrell Brown led Army with 24 points off the bench. Six-eight freshman Chris Walker added 23 on 8 for 11 shooting from the floor.
Down 4 midway through the second half, Army went on a 12-0 run to take the lead. The Black Knights hit 8 of 8 at the foul line in the final two minutes to preserve the lead.
Matt Bell finished with 9 points. It was Bell's first non-double figures effort of the season.
VMI, which averages 105 points per game, put up a Christl Arena record 43 three-pointers (making 11).
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Princeton 44, Lafayette 42 -- It is a scenario you won't see played out too often: Lafayette losing a game in which it outrebounds the opponent but shoots poorly. You'd expect the opposite from the Leopards, but that was how Tuesday night's loss to Princeton played out, right down to the final buzzer.
Lafayette, which had been outrebounded by a margin of at least 10 boards in its first six games actually won the battle of the glass against Princeton, 26-20. Perhaps the biggest of the 'Pards 26 rebounds was the one Marcus Harley chased down after Princeton, working the shot clock with a 2 point lead and 55 seconds to play, ends up tossing up a desperation three as the shot clock ran out.
That gave Lafayette the ball with 26 seconds to go, a two to tie, trey to win. After a timeout, the Leopards put the ball in the hands of sophomore Andrew Brown. Brown, who was 1 for 5 from the arc, tried to take it to the hole. Brown's off-balance runner wouldn't drop and Princeton came up with the rebound in a scuffle as time ran out.
Brown was not the only Leopard who struggled from the field. As a team, the normally good shooting 'Pards shot 14 of 36 (38.9 percent) from the field, including 22.2 percent (4 of 18) from the arc.
Matt Betley, who led Lafayette in scoring for the fourth straight game, had 11 points and a game-high 7 rebounds.
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