MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[kitchenrat]

One big bright spot from the game against Gettysburg (other than the win of course) was that the Sparts shot over 40% from behind the arch. Once this group starts finding their shot, they will be a very good team, but it gets no easier with Albright coming into Grumbacher on Sunday. I hope everyone has a good holiday.

[unreallawns]

Salisbury beat VJC in overtime behind Ray Williams 39 points.  They play McDaniel on Saturday.  Does anyone know anything about McDaniel?

[ronk]

       Saturday's CU-Scranton doubleheader on the web at
//playlist.wusr.scranton.edu/index.php
women at 2, men at 4.

[bisonpride]

Maryland Bible win in overtime thrill home opener game for the Bison, 78-74.

Gallaudet Bison play it's home opener against Maryland Bible College, it started off from several lead changes from beginning to end of the game. Jon Mowl led the way with 21 points and 6 assists, Jonathan Valencia put up 18 points, while sharpshooter Sekoe White garnered 15. Maryland Bible's frontcourt trio stood into nice sizes of 6'4, 6'5 and 6'5 gave smaller Bison some tough time inside the paint, but over the course of the night, turnovers and crucial missed free throws wrote the story for the Bison.  The speedy Mowl pushed the game into overtime on another buzzer-beater, following strong trey performances from Sekoe White and Jonathan Valencia.  Their hard-fought efforts have not yet produced a win, although with each passing game, victory draws nearer. 

Over three games this year, the opponents have outscored the Bison only by 9 points (255-246) and the offense is producing an 82 points-per-game average.

Next up for the Bison hoopsters is that they are hosting the annual Gallaudet Holiday Tournament. We would like to recognized that the tournament is sponsored by Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. The ball goes up at 6:00 p.m. on Friday November 24 against the Southern Vermont Mountaineers, with the North Carolina Wesleyan-John Jay College game to following up at 8 p.m.

[bisonpride]

Hope everybody's Thanksgiving went well.

Here's the result of tonight's annual Gallaudet Holiday Men's Basketball Tournament. Again, the entire tournament is proudly sponsored by the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

6pm game - Southern Vermont beat Gallaudet, 75-73.
8pm game - North Carolina Wesleyan beat John Jay, 92-73.

For more information, the tournament program can be viewed in PDF file on.. http://athletics.gallaudet.edu/GHIT%20Program%20FINAL.pdf

Otherwise, Gallaudet had lost all 4 games in total of 11 points (2.75 ppg) margin this season so far. While half of those total games went into overtime. It's TOUGH lucks for the Bison early in the season. Hope the lucks would turn into their side as the season going by.

Here's time for tomorrow's games.. The consolation game between Gallaudet and John Jay at 1pm, while the championship game will be play at 3pm between North Carolina Wesleyan and Southern Vermont.

[cuabigdog]

FINAL SCORE  from Scranton PA

CATHOLIC     71       [4-0]

SCRANTON     61      [1-1]



GO CARDS !!!!!

[Matt Letourneau]

Man, you JUST beat me to it.

Sounds like they wer led by Fumai's 20, and the return of Stephen Papageorge, who was also in double figures, along with freshman Jeff Sparrow, who has been extremely impressive.

Not a great afternoon for Pat Dwyer, who fouled out with 8.

ANOTHER impressive win on the road for Catholic.  They're off to a great start, and I think the Cardinal faithful that haven't seen them in person yet will be very, very impressed with what they see.

[bisonpride]

The 2006 Gallaudet Holiday Basketball Tournament result..

Consolation Game: Gallaudet beat John Jay 77-52.
Championship Game: North Carolina Wesleyan beat Southern Vermont 81-75.

2006 Gallaudet Holiday Tournament MVP: Lenny Hall of NC Wesleyan
All-Tournament team: Dustin Yeates of John Jay, Chris Matte of Southern Vermont, Adam Coleman of NC Wesleyan and Jon Mowl of Gallaudet.

Special thanks to Ruth's Chris Steak House for sponsoring the whole tournament as it went VERY successful. Up next for Gallaudet Bison is away conference game in Frederick, MD on wednesday evening against the Blazers of Hood College. Last year's meeting between those two teams at Hood's turf in Thomas Johnson High School Gymnasium, the Bison won in close and tight battle with Matthew Eby's game-winning buzzer three-pointer from the midcourt.

[ycp]

Final from York,

Spartans 72-Albright 70

Chad McGowan led all scorers as the junior poured in 28 points while he recorded his second double-double with 10 rebounds. He also had three steals and a blocked shot in 30 minutes of action. McGowan was 10-of-22 from the floor including 2-of-2 from distance. Nate Lankford was the second Spartan in double figures with 10 points while he also had four assists, four rebounds, and a steal. Freshman Nick Brady added nine points, six rebounds, three assists, and a steal.

Game box
http://www.ycp.edu/sports/mens_basketball/2006/YCPMBB03.HTM

[kitchenrat]

One of these days YCP's gonna get in a real shooting stride and they are going to put up a lot of points

[unreallawns]

Salisbury lost a tough game to Johns Hopkins last night at Goucher 71-60.  SU went through a 4 minute stretch in the begining of the 2nd hal where they couldn't buy a bucket.  They got down by 14 during that stretch and could only cut it to 5 before they ended up losing by 11.  Johns Hopkins is a well coached team and they are fundamentally sound.  Bad refing both ways.  Salisbury goes down to Virginia Weslyan Wed to try and knock off the #1 team.  Salisbury always plays them tough and if I'm not mistaken, SU has won 3 of the last 6. 

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

You know what... I spent my ENTIRE weekend at the tournament at Goucher... and while I saw bad calls in every game (there will never be a perfect game) and I certainly heard the fans complain... the refs weren't that bad. In the championship game, Salisbury was forcing the refs into most of those calls by simply getting aggressive and were hand checking and pushing very obviously.

I will certainly post more when I get a bit more time... but Salisbury played better than I expected at times... and worse than expected. Salisbury has got to learn to play as a team for an entire game... and that includes Ray Williams who shows signs of brillance... and others when he needs to learn to stop playing one-on-one.

[unreallawns]

Towards the end of the game when Salisbury was down and they were trying to turn up the pressure, they were definitly hand checking.  JHU was hand checking as well and not getting called for it.  #45 and #55 for JHU were camping out in the lane all game and I think they might have gotten called for it twice.  Only after SU's coaching staff repeatedly called it out to the refs.

[Matt Letourneau]

Hey, first post about reffing of the year, followed by a defense of the refs, and I wasn't even involved!! (Yippee).....

For the record, by the way, if the CAC officials were half as good as the officials that called the Albright Tourney, I wouldn't need to do much complaining, with the exception of non-calls on 3 second violations, which seems to be a systematically ignored rule.  Really solid crew up there in PA.

[mwgoonie]

Welp, i boy am glad to be back amongst CAC action. Should be a good one in Arlington as we see the Fitzgerald/Lee/Pierce/Baker quadruple threat face off against MMT. Looking like a solid year, but as always in the CAC the toughest team always wins, mntally and physically. So it'll be interesting to see how this team responds.

Good luck to all other teams, I cant wait to see/experience all the bad reffing and fan action stories, too.