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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Ingram guns down Lafayette
(Updated with links at 9:43 am)The Leopards likes to live by the three. Saturday it was their demise.

Andre Ingram rained threes on the Leopards, draining 6 from the arc en route to a 23-point afternoon.

Ingram's effort was part of a 10-trey afternoon for AU, which shot 44.8 percent (26 of 58) from the field, 10 of 22 outside the arc.

The Eagles also got a big game inside from Travis Lay, who came off the bench for a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double. Lay's rebounding was a key to American's 37-27 edge on the boards. Three of Lay's rebounds were on the offensive glass, where AU had a 10-2 edge.

Lafayette, which lives and dies by the jump shot, was just 20 of 47 from the field (42.6 percent), 7 of 22 from the arc. Andrew Brown and Matt Betley each had 12 points for Lafayette, but they were a combined 3 for 13 from the arc.

The Leopards were up 25-24 after a pair of Jesper Andersson free throws with 2:58 to go in the first half. AU responded with an 8-3 run to close the half up 32-28 and never trailed after the break. Lafayette got within one on an Andre Hines jumper with 14:39 to play before American pulled away.

The win, American's second in a row, puts the Eagles (11-10 overall, 3-4 Patriot) back above .500 and back in contention for one of the four homecourt first round games.

Lafayette (8-14, 2-5) drops into a tie with Colgate, one game ahead of last-place Navy.
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