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| Ben Pearce scored 20 or more points for the sixth time on the season for Emory. Emory athletics file photo by Justin Whitening; Just-In Photography |
The No. 2 Emory men delivered No. 4 New York University its first loss of the season, No. 5 Wesleyan improved to 17-0, the top-ranked NYU women won their 44th in a row and the Case Western Reserve women dealt Wash U an upset on its home floor on Friday night.
Two-time D3hoops.com All-Region selection Ben Pearce poured in a season-high 28 points and Emory kept NYU to 3-for-14 shooting from beyond the arc in the second half as the No. 2 Eagles handed the No. 4 Violets their first loss of the season, winning 77-65.
Emory scored the final eight points of the first half to go to the locker room with a 41-30 lead. The Eagles (12-1, 2-0 UAA) extended that lead to 16 points in the second half at 57-41 before NYU started to chip away, capping the run off with Hampton Sanders converting a three-point play with 1:29 left to cut the lead from 60-45 all the way to 69-65. NYU (12-1, 1-1) was not able to get any closer, however, as they were unable to score again and Emory went 8-for-8 from the foul line down the stretch. The Emory starting five scored 76 of the Eagles' 77 points. Tristan How led NYU with 19 points and nine boards.
Wesleyan took the lead for good early in the second half after a back-and-forth game for the first 25 minutes and was off to the races as a 39-38 deficit quickly became a 62-45 lead and turned into a 73-57 win for the No. 5 Cardinals at Hamilton. Shane Regan scored a game-high 25 points in just 26 minutes of action, with 18 of his points coming in the second half. Wesleyan's 17 wins are already four more than the Cardinals had all of last season.
Momo Stokes had 32 points to help George Fox send Whitworth to just its second loss of the season as the Bruins defeated the No. 15 Pirates 87-81. A Garrett Long three-pointer at the end for Whitworth made the final score closer, although Whitworth was within four points with 35 seconds left. Forced to foul, Whitworth sent George Fox (7-7, 3-2 NWC) to the free throw line for five points in the closing seconds, while the Pirates missed two three-pointers and turned the ball over. Whitworth is 12-2, 3-2 in the NWC. Whitman leads the conference standings by two games after a 73-71 win at Pacific.
Justin Allen scored 10 of the first 13 points for Carnegie Mellon and the majority of the rest of the Tartans' points as well as they won 63-57 at the University of Chicago. Allen, who entered as the No. 2 scorer in Division III men's basketball, finished with 36 points on 16-for-30 shooting. It's his fifth game this season of 30 or more points. Allen hit a layup with 1:38 left to give the Tartans (10-3, 1-1 UAA) a 59-51 lead, but Daniel Cochran hit a three-pointer and Eamonn Kenny hit two free throws to cut the lead to three with 19 seconds left. Allen threw one down with 10.5 seconds later to make it a two possession game and R.J. Holmes hit two foul shots to secure the win, dropping Chicago to 10-3, 1-1.
Tufts shot 55% from the floor in the first half and held on the rest of the way as the No. 9 Jumbos defeated Williams 59-46. Tufts led by as many as 22 points in the second half, at 49-27, before Williams was able to cut it to nine, but the Ephs could get no closer. Scott Gyimesi had 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds for the Jumbos, as they improved to 15-2, 3-0 in NESCAC play.
Matthew Garside finished with a game-high 18 points and shot 6-for-9 from three-point range, including this game-winning shot below that you will want to listen to with the volume turned way down. Union beat St. Lawrence 60-59.
In a back-and-forth game that featured 12 lead changes and 11 ties, it came down the final seconds to determine a winner. The home team missed a chance to take the lead with 10 seconds left and fouled Adam Dudzinski, who made the first of two free throws to put the Saints up 59-57. But he missed the second and Brendan Reid came up with a tough rebound to give the Garnet Chargers one last chance. After a timeout, Garside got the ball at the defensive free-throw line and dribbled down the court before stopping at the three-point arc, pump-faking a defender, and draining a three as the clock expired to give Union (7-7, 3-4 Liberty League) the \conference win.
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Azriel Almodovar drove the length of the court, then found trailing Rowan Heinze, who put in the layup with just tenths of a second remaining to lift Bard to a 70-69 win against Hobart. It was the only field goal attempt that the Raptors connected on in the final four minutes of the game, which had started with Bard (8-6, 3-4 Liberty League) leading 63-55. Monty Nedd drove to the bucket twice in the final 90 seconds sandwiched around a Hunter Meshanic layup to get the Statesmen (10-4, 4-3) within a point, and then Nedd hit two foul shots with 8.4 seconds left to give his team the lead before Bard's last-second heroics.
Friday women's basketball
In women's action, No. 1 NYU shot 61% from the floor in the second half, including 73% from inside the three-point arc, as the Violets ran away from Emory 83-52. It's NYU's 44th consecutive win and their 58th win in 59 games. Caroline Peper scored a game-high 24 points, shooting 9-for-14 from the floor and 4-for-6 from three-point range. Peper also blocked a game-high six shots.
The Wash U women came alive in the fourth quarter, with Alyssa Hughes making five three-pointers in the final period, but it was not enough as Case Western Reserve got out of the Wash U Field House with a 64-57 win against the No. 13 Bears. Wash U had missed 14 of its first 15 three-pointers before Hughes's flurry in the fourth, but the Bears were unable to get over the mountain on two occasions in which they cut the Case lead to three in the final quarter. Emily Plachta scored a game- and career-high 22 points for Case, which improved to 6-7, 1-1 in the UAA. Wash U fell to 10-3, 1-1. Plachta got 12 of her 22 in the fourth quarter as Case beat its highest-ranked opponent since an 87-78 win over 10th-ranked Carnegie Mellon on Jan. 7, 2017.
Zoë Tomlinson scored a game-high 36 points and had 14 rebounds, including the 1,100th of her career, setting the Colorado College career mark in a 69-60 win against Concordia (Texas). Tomlinson shot 13-for-22 from the floor and 10-for-11 from the line, while Kayla Mackel added 19 points and 11 boards. The Tigers improved to 12-2, 4-1 in the SCAC.
Livy Sauvageau led six players in double figures, scoring 25 off the bench in just 17 minutes, as Trinity (Texas) steamrolled the University of Dallas 124-79. The Tigers shot better than 60% in each of the final three quarters, played nobody for more than 23 minutes, and got 11 players in the scoring column. Trinity is now 8-6, 4-1 in SCAC play, while Dallas is 1-13, 0-5.