MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[smcmsid]

Final from St. Mary's...

McDaniel       85     (2-2)
St. Mary's      96     (2-1)

Sophomore guard Tyson Lesesne posted game-highs with 28 points and 12 rebounds in leading the Seahawks to the victory. He also added seven assists and six steals. Sophomore guard T.J. Jordan added 19 points for the Seahawks. Junior guard Valdez Preston added 14 points and nine rebounds while junior forward Spencer Way III contributed with 12 points, five rebounds, and four assists.

Senior guard Mike Dipiero scored 16 points with a game-high eight assists in leading the Green Terror. Senior guard Will Talesnick added 15 points while Hunter posted 12 points.  Daniel contributed with ten points on 3-of-6 shooting with four rebounds while freshman guard Ryan Finch scored seven points and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds.

[ycp]

Details from York...
The Spartans were led by Kenny Fass as the senior again came up big for the green and white with 21 points, six rebounds, and two steals. Fass was 8-for-9 from the floor including 3-for-3 from beyond the arc. He also converted his two free throw attempts. Nate Fry and Chad McGowan each added 19 points for YCP. Fry's 19 points establish a new career high in just his third collegiate game. He also had two rebounds and three steals. Fry was 7-for-9 from the floor and 5-for-6 from downtown. McGowan, the reigning CAC Player of the Week, had five rebounds, two assists and a steal in addition to his 19 points. McGowan went 7-for-8 from the charity stripe for the green and white. Brad Zerfing was the four Spartan in double figures with 10 points, four assists, and no turnovers in 26 minutes of action.

Game Box
http://www.ycp.edu/sports/mens_basketball/2005/YCPMBB03.HTM

[bisonpride]

Result from Washington, DC..

Penn State Berks - 63
Gallaudet Bison - 74

Gallaudet win two games in row, and improving to 2-1 record.

More information will come up later.

[ycp]

Anyone happen to notice tonight's results (brought to my attention by a staff member)....

CAC 4-Centennial 0
YCP (Gettysburg), CUA (Haverford), SMC (McDaniel), and SAL (Washington) all record victories over a Centennial opponent.

Good job CAC

[bisonpride]

Bison win first home game of the season...

Penn State Berks - 63
@Gallaudet (2-1) - 74
Halftime: GU 41-32

The tandem of Robert Haney, Jr and Frank Jackson along with others lead the Bison to it's second straight win overall and first home win of the season. Jackson led the way with 23 points and 11 rebounds included a nice inside dunk in the traffic at first half. Haney, Jr. came along with similar numbers, 21 points and 10 rebounds with a thunderous drive that end up into a powerful one-hand dunk which lift the momentum of the crowd rest of the game. Bison shot 45% from the field, and 6-13 (46%) from three points land. Bison's frenzy defense allowed only 37% FG along with 22% 3-Points to Penn State Berks. Penn State Berks is a talent, and young team that have future. They had three good freshmen guards that came from same high schools (sound similar situation to UMW's Lee and Fitzgerald) in PA along with experience upperclassmen. They are very good balance scoring and rebounding team this season accord to their stats. Last night, Gallaudet won the rebounds battle by 9, 48-39.

Bison improving to 2-1 record before Thanksgiving. They will host annual Gallaudet Holiday Tournament that featured three other teams this weekend right after Thanksgiving. Gallaudet will host against John Jay. While Hood College will play against Widener in other game.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's great to know that all CAC teams won last night except for Marymount right before the Thanksgiving. Maybe we should be thankful for that.

At last, Happy "early" Thanksgiving to everybody. Enjoy!

[mlb]

It's nice to see the CAC faring well.  Pat C., if you read this, it would be great to see some form of "conference" evaluation - record vs. out of conference schools (like they do at the D I level as they start to get into league play and talk about NCAA bids).  I know that the region record is supposed to provide that type of information on a "by team" basis, but I have never seen anything formalized by conference.

Matt L. is right about Catholic.  It's a nice team, but needs to improve a lot to beat Scranton on Saturday.  I think that the team has a lot of potential - it is deep at virtually all positions and they are still missing a couple of pretty good players who have been out with injury.

They are 5 deep across the frontline and equally deep in the backcourt.  With the addition of the two injured kids, they will be able to play multiple types of games - fast break, pound it inside, penetrate and dish, etc.  There are not too many teams that can do that with their starting five, let alone compete equally well with a second five.  Best part is that the kids get along great and no one complains about playing time - everyone is focused on the team.  That shows some great leadership by the kids, especially Shane Sowden. 

I'm looking forward to a great year.  Now, all they have to do is solve some of the simple problems - better free throw shooting, better rebounding and better weak side rotation on dribble penetration.

Sorry for the "fan coaching" interlude.

[mwgoonie]

John Hurd seems to be having issues with eligiblity.....
Seems, from what I hear, that his former coach from Christopher Newport was a bit digruntled over his departure to UMW and raised some complaints against his eligiblilty...


On other fronts, Justin Baker has been looking good
A.J Fitzgerad has found his shot....

[bisonpride]

First day of Gallaudet Holiday Tournament.

6pm game:
John Jay (0-3)   - 54
Gallaudet (3-1) - 65   (Halftime- GU 29-24)

8pm game:
Widener (4-0) - 72
Hood (2-3)      - 62   (Halftime- Hood 36-31)

Hood and John Jay will play in the consolation tomorrow while Gallaudet (3-1) will play against Widener.. The rematch of Holiday Tournament championship game two years ago, which Widener beat the Bison.

[cuainfo]

Catholic 72   vs. Scranton 63 Final
Halftime 35                        34

[bisonpride]

Championship game of Gallaudet Holiday Tournament...

Gallaudet (3-2) - 61
Widener (5-0)    - 66

Halftime: 36-32 Widener

[Matt Letourneau]

Great win for the Cardinals tonight in a very good game.  Hopefully they have silenced their critics who didn't think they were a Top 25 team.  Today's performance proves they belong there.

Scranton took a 34-30 lead with 2:00 left in the 1st half and never led again.  Catholic came out of halftime strong and built a 9 point lead, Scranton got it all the way down to 52-51 with around 5:00 left, but Catholic pulled away from that point led by great team defense that drew 21 turnovers.  In the 2nd half, CUA had a 10-2 turnover advantage.

Catholic also did an excellent job of getting to the line--26 times in the 2nd half.  Now Scranton's coach and fans began grumbling about the foul discrepancy (which ended up 27-17, really not that much considering Scranton fouled on purpose at the end when they were trailing to put Satalin on the line), but the bottom line is that Scranton settled for a lot of jump shots whereas Catholic was consistantly driving to the basket.  You aren't going to get to the line unless you make an effort, when you take a lot of jump shots and turn the ball over 21 times I don't see why you'd expect to be shooting a lot of free throws.

Catholic won despite not getting standout performances from their stars. Pat Satalin had a tough night from the floor (0-8) but was absolutely money from the free throw line (12-12), he finished the game with 10 made free throws in a row.  Sowden had 10 points but was well guarded by Scranton's big men, and the CUA guards had difficulty getting him the ball.  Dwyer had a few more looks and had 14.  I think the real star of this game was Fumai, who in addition to 16 points played great defense and prevented Scranton from getting the outside looks that they had in the first half when they were 5-6 from 3.

9 CUA players had more than 10 minutes, which is a great testament to their depth.  They ran pretty well and made some nice adjustments.

So overall, a big regional win for Catholic.  They've got the annual visit to Mary Wash coming up this Wednesday, so that will be a major league challenge. Anything can happen down there and I'm sure that Goolrook will be packed with 100 or so people (just kidding--well it will be packed, that's for sure).

[mwcsid]

Hey... that's TWO hundred...
:-)

Cards are rolling (both men AND women) - should be a big challenge for the Iggles.

[Matt Letourneau]

Indeed.  And, of course, I spelled Goolrick wrong.  I know better, too...

Nice to see the Cardinals back on the front page of D3hoops this morning. 

[bisonpride]

Congrats to the neighbor, Catholic Cards.. a great "upset" win for both of them. It would be a key game in end of the season in selection for NCAA unless they win the CAC Championship. It's nice to read them on the front page of d3hoops.com since Lonergan was in front cover two years ago, "D-III to D-I" by being accepted to University of Maryland assistant coaching job. Speak of Lonergan, I am going to Vermont Athletics site right now to see how the team is doing. Enjoy rest of the weekend..

[Pat Coleman]

Since I've gotten two e-mails about this already (possibly both from the same person), I figure I better make a note about it here.

Penn State-Berks is a provisional member of Division III and is not a regional game for Gallaudet or anyone else. For more information please read:

Site FAQ: http://www.d3hoops.com/faq.php?question=21

Penn State-Berks schedule/results page: http://www.d3hoops.com/school_info.php?school=Penn%20State-Berks&team=m