MBB: Little East

warrior · November 19, 2010, 09:39:10 PM

Eastern 71-Berkeley 60. Ugly win (32.5 FG%, 15.4%3s), but we'll take it! Nedwick 17 pts/ 6 assists, Kohn 14 pts/ 12 rebs, Sawyer 10 pts/8 rebs, Ives 10 pts/ 5 rebs. Hey, if you shoot that poorly and still win, good things are ahead! Final vs. Purchase at 3pm.

ECSUalum · November 20, 2010, 09:16:55 PM

1 point ECSU loss to Suny Purchase tonight, 80-79. Kohn misses 2nd of two free throws to tie with only 10 seconds left.

This is were Ortizs' 90 % FT shooting won a lot of close games for the Warriors last year. Still having issues with overall shooting %. Did not think Nedwick played especially well first half, but came around the second half. He will need be more consistant going forward, particularly when the LEC teams come in. Still early, so we need to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Bright spot continues to be O and D rebounding where Eastern dominated 44-19

SUNY Purchase comes in with a big team, (Thompson, 6-9; Billups 6-5; Watson 6-6, and other players above 6-6), is a veteran team, and was an NCAA Tournament participant last year. Eastern beat Purchase by 8 last year, but tonight it was a closer game, primarily during the second half, with SUNY-P leading the whole first half by as many as 9.

PS, Freshman Brian Salzillo popped 3 key 3 pointers to get the Warriors back into the game in the 2nd half

Argylebballer · November 21, 2010, 02:24:02 PM

RIC back on the winning side with two big road wins. Beat Clark 63-49 and Lasell 70-47 in a game that was never close. Between the two games RIC has trailed in 68 minutes. The defense again looked solid in both wins.
Akinrola, 6-7 Center, has been key for the Anchormen. In the last two games he has a combined 33 points and 13 rebounds.
Steve Roberts came of the bench to have a huge game against Lasell with 17 points and 13 rebounds in only 18 minutes.

warrior · November 24, 2010, 07:01:12 AM

ECSU is back on track! Another nail-biter! Eastern was up for a grand total of 1 minute all game ... but it was the right minute! In the last 4 minutes, I think we went on an 11-2 run to come back and close it out! Trinity, like Purchase, looked very good. Trinity had some height and was the first team to beat us on the boards in a long time, but good D and low turnovers did the job. RIC is coming up soon! Can't wait!!!

KSCfan · November 24, 2010, 11:56:25 AM

Keene off to a 4-0 start this year. They have been playing some very good ball. The have been getting balanced scoring from Mariano Wright and Martin. Balanced scoring is good to see from the owls because it shows that the team is moving the ball around and not just using one guy. The owls are getting up and down the floor and putting up some good numbers The schedule gets tougher but it was important for the owls to get off to a solid start. Wins build confidence and this team is playing with lots of confidence right now

nescac1 · November 24, 2010, 12:11:45 PM

KSCfan, I wrote a bit about Keene on the N.E. rankings board. Three scholarship transfers is pretty incredible, any info on how Keene pulled that off? Is D'Amours hurt and if so, is he projected to return soon? Keene seems to have a lot of talent on the roster right now ...

ECSUalum · November 24, 2010, 04:26:26 PM

Quote from: warrior on November 24, 2010, 07:01:12 AM
ECSU is back on track! Another nail-biter! Eastern was up for a grand total of 1 minute all game ... but it was the right minute! In the last 4 minutes, I think we went on an 11-2 run to come back and close it out! Trinity, like Purchase, looked very good. Trinity had some height and was the first team to beat us on the boards in a long time, but good D and low turnovers did the job. RIC is coming up soon! Can't wait!!!

Yes Sir, Last year Eastern had 3 OT wins over NESCAC teams!!! I quess this is the way the Warriors like to play early on in the season.

Very good game re TO's for ECSU!!! This was a problem for the team last year. Hopefully they can get their FT % up and maintained, which was a problem in 08/09 season.

jhawk · November 27, 2010, 10:26:47 AM

KSC has 1st Team All-LEC forward Derek D'Amours listed on the roster .
Any further info on the status of this very good player .

ECSUalum · November 28, 2010, 06:28:29 PM

ECSU over TCNJ this afternoon 71-68. Jamie Kohn and Mike Garrow sunk critical FTs with second left to ice the game.
TO's were a bit high, but ECSU dominated the boards as usual. TCNJ's Donovan Smalls was unstoppable with 27 points for the Lions, yet missed a critical FT, which if made, would have sent the game into overtime!!!

ECSU played tough D tonight and seem to thrive on close games!!

Conn College at Geissler Gym. tomorrow.

warrior · November 28, 2010, 07:30:02 PM

Yes, another nail-biter! No overtime games YET this year for us (we already had 3 at this point last year!), but once again, they have all come down to the wire! Needless to say, we are again getting very valuable practice for the upcoming league schedule. Boy, the league scares me this year! Besides Umass Dartmouth, no one has more than one loss!!!! This is going to be one CRAZY year! "Let it begin!"

high flyer 21 · November 29, 2010, 12:33:39 PM

RIC beat Bridgewater State 62-61 in a exciting ending, though embrassing for Bridgewater. RIC's Mason Choice hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to take the lead. With 3 seconds left Bridgewater's Corey Connors dished off to his center Samuel Johnson who missed a completely wide open layup as buzzer sounded.

ECSUalum · November 29, 2010, 03:51:00 PM

Quote from: high flyer 21 on November 29, 2010, 12:33:39 PM
RIC beat Bridgewater State 62-61 in a exciting ending, though embrassing for Bridgewater. RIC's Mason Choice hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to take the lead. With 3 seconds left Bridgewater's Corey Connors dished off to his center Samuel Johnson who missed a completely wide open layup as buzzer sounded.

It's that LUCK OF THE IRISH!!!! (Coach Walsh)

Yes warrior, the LEC teams will be fighting it out this year, and will do some serious damage to non conference teams

warrior · November 29, 2010, 11:40:21 PM

Oh my goodness - I can't take this any more! Another OT game with Conn College!!! I thought we had them knocked out early, but they kept coming back! The 10 point win doesn't do justice to the hard fought battle. (Hard fought in more ways than one - they had to stop the game twice to clean blood off the floor after Eastern players caught some head shots.) At one point we were up by 16 (!), but with 3 minutes left we found ourselves down by 4 until back to back threes brought us back. Well, like last year, these 5 games certainly did their jobs in preparing us for the 'real' season that begins on Saturday!!!! As always, we'll have to be at our best to compete with RIC!!!

ECSUalum · November 30, 2010, 10:04:40 PM

The boys had 14 TO's, which is too high, shot FG 41%

, but were FT 73 % and dominated the boards 45-29, with Kohn taking 3 OF and 15 Def

!!! Kohn is worth his weight in gold just from the rebounding side!! Defense is solid with points allowed average just over 64 pts

Keep working on lowering the turnovers and hopefully the FG % will improve with time.

Argylebballer · November 30, 2010, 11:50:01 PM

RIC with a big come back win in the always hot cross town game with JWU. RIC got down 15 in the first half with another very slow start. It was as hostile of a D3 crowd I have every season for a non-conf game. RIC came roaring back towards the end of the half. In the second RIC pulled away to win by 9. Akinrola had 26 to lead all scorers for RIC.
Carl Lee made his season debut for the Anchormen with 18 points, 4 boards, 2 blocks and 2 steals in only 19 minutes off the bench. Lee also had a highlight reel put back dunk late that got the whole crowd on their feet.
RIC finally seems to be finding their stride.