Courtesy St. Michael’s Sports Information<\/p>\n
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WORCESTER, MA. — The Saint Michael’s College men’s basketball team lost at Assumption College, 93-74, on Tuesday evening during Northeast-10 Conference play in Laska Gym. The Purple Knights remain 2.5 games out of the fourth and final NE10 Northeast Division postseason position with four games to play.<\/p>\n
RECORDS
\n\u00b7 Saint Michael’s (7-15, 4-11 NE10), Assumption (12-11, 6-10 NE10)<\/p>\n
SAINT MICHAEL’S LEADERS
\n\u00b7 First-year Kasai Brown (Brooklyn, N.Y.\/Millbrook School), 19 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists
\n\u00b7 Senior Jordan Guzman (Staten Island, N.Y.\/Xaverian), 16 points, 2 assists, 4-for-9 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Sophomore Jontai Williams (Bronx, N.Y.\/Cardinal Hayes), 13 points (tied career high), 5-for-5 field goals, 3-for-3 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Junior Walker Storey (Shelburne, Vt.\/Champlain Valley Union), 10 points, 4-for-6 field goals, 2-for-4 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Redshirt junior Thomas Jackson III (Middletown, Conn.\/Holderness School), 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals
\n\u00b7 Junior Alvi Rodriguez (Madrid, Spain\/La Salle Maravillas), 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals<\/p>\n
OPPONENT LEADERS
\n\u00b7 First-year Isiah Gaiter, 20 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, 7-for-11 field goals
\n\u00b7 Redshirt junior Jordan White, 19 points, 10 rebounds, 4-for-5 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Junior Matthew Kelly, 19 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3-for-4 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Sophomore Cal Connelly, 13 points, 3 assists, 3-for-5 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Redshirt junior Malik Brown, 12 points<\/p>\n
GAME FACTS
\n\u00b7 The Purple Knights moved to 4-4 in their last eight games, remaining within 2.5 games of the fifth and final postseason berth in the NE10 Northeast Division with four games to go.
\n\u00b7 Both teams shot well from three-point range, with the Purple and Gold 13-for-27 (48.1%) to the Greyhounds’ 12-for-25 (48.0%) showing. While Saint Michael’s only committed four more turnovers (15) than Assumption (11), the Greyhounds parlayed that into a 28-12 scoring advantage off of giveaways.<\/p>\n
THE ACTION
\n\u00b7 White knocked down a three-pointer 16 seconds into the game to give Assumption the lead, but Kasai Brown’s triple knotted the teams at 5-5 by 18:24 of the opening half.
\n\u00b7 Gaiter scored the next five points to give the hosts the lead for good, sparking a 16-6 run around a pair of Guzman threes. White’s two free throws made it 21-11 by 13:58.
\n\u00b7 With his team still down 10, Williams netted 10 points himself in a matter of 5:25 to key a 16-7 run that brought Saint Michael’s within 33-32 with 5:26 to go.
\n\u00b7 The Greyhounds slowly built their lead back to nine, with Malik Brown converting consecutive hoops to cap a 10-2 stretch, and his lay-in at 1:06 sent the hosts into the locker room up 45-37.
\n\u00b7 Five Assumption players scored in a 14-4 run that started the second half, extending the lead to 59-41 on Malik Brown’s hoop at 13:50.
\n\u00b7 Saint Michael’s scored the next 10 points in just 49 seconds to trim the deficit to eight, with Guzman scoring half the points and the visitors drawing within 59-51 on Jackson’s triple at 12:26.
\n\u00b7 Assumption responded with a 25-8 run that White capped with a triple at 5:14, pushing the lead to 84-59.<\/p>\n
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL’S GAME
\n\u00b7 Saturday vs. Franklin Pierce University, 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
WORCESTER, Mass. – The Saint Michael’s College women’s basketball team lost a 53-40 decision at Assumption College during Northeast-10 Conference play on Tuesday in Laska Gym.<\/p>\n
RECORDS
\n\u00b7 Saint Michael’s (8-13, 2-13 NE10), Assumption (13-11, 7-9 NE10)<\/p>\n
SAINT MICHAEL’S LEADERS
\n\u00b7 Junior Nicole Anderson (Kittery Point, Maine\/Marianapolis Prep), 9 points, 2 steals
\n\u00b7 Senior Taylor Miller (Falmouth, Mass.\/Falmouth), 7 points, 11 rebounds, 3 blocks
\n\u00b7 Senior Alyssa Breunig (Trumbull, Conn.\/Trumbull), 6 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 blocks
\n\u00b7 Sophomore Nicole Ladas (Glastonbury, Conn.\/Tilton School), 5 points, 4 rebounds
\n\u00b7 Senior Casey Evans (Londonderry, N.H.\/Saint Andrew’s School), 6 rebounds in 8 minutes
\n\u00b7 First-year Anika Kapral (Dummerston, Vt.\/Vermont Academy), 5 rebounds<\/p>\n
OPPONENT LEADERS
\n\u00b7 Senior Brianna Capacchione, 19 points, 3-for-7 three-pointers
\n\u00b7 Junior Temi Falaye, 11 points, 10 rebounds, 4 blocks
\n\u00b7 Sophomore Emme Poulin, 9 points
\n\u00b7 Junior Meghan Reen, 7 assists, 5 steals<\/p>\n
GAME FACTS
\n\u00b7 Miller upped her career blocks total to 112, breaking a tie with Amy Pitchers ’08 for sixth in program history.
\n\u00b7 Saint Michael’s held a 42-41 rebounding edge, including 9-8 on the offensive glass. The visitors put forth a 22-20 lead in paint points.<\/p>\n
THE ACTION
\n\u00b7 Ladas scored her team’s first five points, and neither squad led by more than two until Capacchione’s three-pointer at 5:25 of the first period sparked a 5-0 spurt, giving Assumption a 12-7 lead.
\n\u00b7 Sophomore Emma MacDonough’s (South Burlington, Vt.\/South Burlington) put-back before the final buzzer had Saint Michael’s within 14-11 heading into the second period, and Anderson’s lay-in at 9:25 cut the deficit to one.
\n\u00b7 Between Poulin’s three at 7:12 of the second quarter and Capaccione’s lay-in with 4:18 remaining in the third quarter, Assumption rattled off a 30-4 run, taking command with a 44-17 lead.
\n\u00b7 Anderson scored five points in a 7-1 response before the Greyhound advantage was extended to 49-24 with 8:01 left in regulation.
\n\u00b7 Saint Michael’s attempted to put together a furious rally in the closing minutes, rattling off a 16-4 run to trim the hole to 53-40 with 16 seconds left on first-year Kyara Triblet’s (Niskayuna, N.Y.\/Colonie Central) lay-in from senior Cassandra Falone’s (Chatham, N.J.\/Chatham) feed, but the visitors came no closer.<\/p>\n
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL’S GAME
\n\u00b7 Saturday vs. Franklin Pierce University, 1:30 p.m.
\n\u00b7 The Purple Knights host a SLAMT1D Diabetes Awareness Game and alumnae event during the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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