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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Holy Cross breezes past 'Pards
Tim Clifford and the Crusaders made it look easy in a 30-point first round win over Lafayette.

Clifford poured in 22 points and grabbed 8 rebounds as top-seeded Holy Cross (23-8) made quick work of last place Lafayette (9-21), sending the Leopards packing with an 83-53 win.

The 83 points were the second most scored by HC all year, just a point less than the 84 they scored in their conference opening win at Lafayette.

The Leopards led early, and were up 11-10 when the sky fell. Holy Cross took command of the game with a 9-0 run, then after a Lafayette bucket, put it away with a 15-0 run, holding the Leopards scoreless for 8:19 while building a 34-13 lead.

It was 42-18 at the half, and Lafayette never got closer than 19 the rest of the way.

Torey Thomas added 13 points for HC and Keith Simmons also reached double figures with 12. Pat Doherty had 5 of the Crusaders' 10 steals, which helped force 20 Lafayette turnovers.

Turnovers were not the Leopards only problem. Even when they held on to the ball, the end results were seldom favorable. The 'Pards were just 5 of 18 from the field (27.8 percent) in the first half, finishing 17 of 48 (35.4 percent).

Holy Cross had no such troubles, knocking down 32 of 60 from the floor (53.3 percent). Even when they did miss, HC was nearly as likely to get the rebound as Lafayette. Thirteen of the Crusaders' 40 rebounds came on the offensive glass, leading to 18 second chance points. Lafayette finished with 19 boards, 14 on HC misses.

Andrew Brown led Lafayette with 26 points, hitting 8 treys (on 12 tries). Matt Betley closed his career with 12 points for the 'Pards. No other Lafayette player made more than one field goal. Take away Brown and Betley's combined 14 for 23 shooting and the rest of the leopards went 3 for 25 (12 percent) from the field.
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