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Friday, November 30, 2007
Navy shots fall, so does Towson
Greg Sprink only took four shots all night. He only made one. The way Kaleo Kina and Adam Teague played off the Navy bench, though, it hardly mattered.

With their senior leader and leading scorer finding it tough to get things going against Towson, Kina and Teague stepped up big time, leading the Mids to a 73-59 win that snapped Navy's three-game losing streak.

Sure their scoring was important. Kina was 7 for 12 from the field with a pair of threes for a game-high 17 points and Teague hit four from the arc to finish with 12. But it was the rest of their lines that shows how important they were to the Mids (3-6) in this one.

Let's start with rebounds -- 8 each, sharing team honors. Their performance was a big reason why Navy was able to outrebound (39-31) a bigger, more athletic Towson team that came in averaging almost four boards per game more than its opponents.

Also impressive was the unselfish nature of their play. Each of the 10 Midshipmen who played more than a minute got in on the scoring, in no small partt due to Kina (6) and Teague's combined 11 assists.

Of course it is not tough to pick up assists when your team is shooting the ball well, and the Mids were doing just that, especially in the second half. The Mids led from the start, taking a 2-o lead when Ben Biles made a pair of freebies after he was fouled trying to put back a Sprink miss on the opening possession.

Towson (3-3) tied it twice, the last time coming with 4:32 to go in the first half before Navy pulled out to a 34-29 lead at the break. The Mids then put the game away midway through the second half with a 16-4 run that built a double-digit lead that stayed in the teens the rest of the way.

Navy shot the lights out in that second half, hitting 14 of 21 (58.3 percent), including 5 (of eight) threes (62.5 percent). The Mids were 28 of 55 (50.9 percent) for the game, with 8 treys (20 attempts).

The Midsa also played a little defense, holding Towson to 34.5 percent (20-58) shooting from the field, 3 of 14 from three-point range.

Box score | AP

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