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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Lightning doesn't strike twice for AU
For about 11 minutes Saturday afternoon, it looked like American might pull off its second shocker against a D.C. area power team in a week.

Then Georgetown changed its defense and ran away from the Eagles for a 78-51 win.

AU led early, with Garrison Carr and Derrick Mercer combining to go 5 for 5 from the three-point arc to start the game. When Mercer hit his second, with 12:53 to go in the opening half, the Eagles were up 19-13.

Then Georgetown began switching on screens to take away those open looks and picked up its defensive intensity. After Cornelio Guibunda scored against his old teammates to give AU a 21-19 lead with 9:12 to go in the half, Georgetown went on a 10-0 run that, for all intents and purposes, determined the outcome of the game.

AU was 0 for 4 with 4 turnovers during that stretch. The turnovers would be a probolem the rest of the way for American, which turned the ball over 21 times, leading to 27 Georgetown points.

In case AU had any comeback dreams, the Hoyas put the game away with a 17-0 run in the second half. That run capped a 50-15 Georgetown spurt that stretched across both halves.

Mercer finished with 17 points, including 4 of 7 from the arc. Carr had 16, including 5 treys on 7 attempts. The rest of the Eagles went 1 for 9 on three-pointers. AU finished the game 18 for 47 (38.3 percent) from the field.

Georgetown hit 29 of 48 (60.4 percent) from the field, 8 of 16 from three-point territory. The Hoyas outscored AU 38-14 in the paint. Georgetown's bench accounted for 30 points; AU's reserves scored 7.
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