MBB: Coast 2 Coast Athletic Conference

[smcmsid]

St. Mary's (MD) 88, Averett 81

Sophomore guard Tyson Lesesne scored a game-high 34 points on 10-of-18 shooting from the field for the Seahawks. Junior guard Valdez Preston scored 18 points while sophomore guard/forward T.J. Jordan posted a double-double with 14 points and a game-high tying ten rebounds, while shooting a perfect 4-for-4 from the field.

Senior guard Sterling Williams led the Cougars with 22 points while junior forward Andrew Boor scored 15 points on 6-for-7 shooting from the field. Sophomore guard Cameron Brown scored ten points with freshman guard Dominique Stevenson posting a game-high nine assists. Freshman forward Rafael DeLeon tied Jordan with a game-high tying ten rebounds in the losing effort.

Both teams shot well in the contest as the Seahawks finished by converting on 50.0 percent (29-58) of their total attempts. Averett connected on 45.3 percent (29-64) of their shots throughout the course of the contest.

[kitchenrat]

Just like last year the Spartans first L of the year is a 2 point CAC road loss. Good game from SAL who now have two wins over the top 25 this year. Now YCP has to come out and hammer Juniata on monday so they can come home at the end of the month with another win under their belts.

[cugrad]

Davidson leads Catholic, 34-17, at halftime. The Cardinals are shooting 16% from the floor. Sowden has 11 points.

[cugrad]

Davidson leads Catholic, 50-32, with 12:46 left in the game.

[cugrad]

Davidson leads Catholic,54-33,with about 10 minutes left.

[cuabigdog]

445 left in game Davidson  71 CUA 40

[cuabigdog]

2:51 left    Davidson 75 CUA 48    Sowden leads all scorers with 19

[cuabigdog]

 -- GAME TOTALS -- 2nd period -- 00:01 remaining
HOME TEAM: Davidson                  80  VISITORS: Catholic                   56
## -NAME-  FG-FA 3M-3A FT-FA RB AS F TP  ## -NAME-  FG-FA 3M-3A FT-FA RB AS F TP
02 RICHARD  2-2   0-0   2-2   2  4 3  6  01*WASILEN  2-4   1-1   0-0   0  1 1  5
04 MCKILLO  2-4   2-4   0-0   2  2 0  6  10 KELLY,A  0-2   0-0   0-0   6  2 2  0
05 MENO,BO  1-1   0-0   4-4   4  1 4  6  14*SATALIN  2-7   1-6   2-2   7  7 0  7
12 GRANT,K  1-4   0-1   2-3   1  6 3  4  20 YARBROU  0-1   0-1   0-0   1  0 1  0
14*PAULHUS  0-0   0-0   2-2   1  1 2  2  21 WHEELER  1-6   0-0   0-0   3  2 3  2
15 SANDER,  3-6   0-0   0-1   7  1 1  6  23 PAPAGEO  1-2   1-1   3-4   1  0 0  6
22 JOHNSON  5-8   2-2   2-3   5  1 2 14  24 OLIVERO  1-3   0-1   0-0   0  0 0  2
24*CIVI,CA  0-0   0-0   0-0   0  1 0  0  25*KELLY,S  0-0   0-0   0-0   1  0 0  0
25*FALCONI  1-1   1-1   0-0   0  1 0  3  33 FUMAI,S  2-10  1-6   2-2   3  0 3  7
30 BLANCET  2-4   1-2   0-2   1  2 0  5  34*DWYER,P  1-6   1-3   3-7   3  1 4  6
32 WINTERS  4-11  2-6   6-6   5  0 2 16  42*SOWDEN,  6-8   0-0   7-8   1  0 4 19
34 MORTON,  3-9   2-6   0-0   2  1 0  8  44 BAKER,A  1-2   0-0   0-0   4  0 0  2
40*CLUNIE,  0-1   0-1   0-0   1  0 0  0  54 SPIEREN  0-0   0-0   0-0   0  0 4  0
41*LOVEDAL  2-6   0-0   0-1   3  1 4  4                                         

TOTALS.... 26-57 10-23 18-24 37 22 21    TOTALS.... 17-51  5-19 17-23 35 13 22 
TEAM--> FG:45.6%  3FG:43.5%  FT:75.0%    TEAM--> FG:33.3%  3FG:26.3%  FT:73.9% 
TEAM--> TURNOVERS:12 BLOCKS:2 STEALS:9   TEAM--> TURNOVERS:19 BLOCKS:2 STEALS:3

[cugrad]

Davidson beats Catholic, 80-56. Cards played much better in the second half. Though Sowden was in foul trouble, he still played very well, leading Catholic with 19 points.

[muchacho]

Congrats to Salisbury on beating York. That makes things a lot more interesting early in the CAC season with the teams that most people thought were the top 2 already with a loss each.

Interesting result from Catholic's game with Davidson. It looks like Shane Showden really showed his talent, and performed on par with the talent at Davidson. Its too bad that the rest of Catholic's players didnt' seem to shine, but it appears that Catholic did a decent job defensively and on the boards. Next up for Davidson is St. Marys, so lets see what Lesesne can do against good competition.

[Matt Letourneau]

Nice showing by CUA down there...it was nice to see them on the ESPN News ticker, and Davidson's margin of victory was barely better than Duke's.  They didn't get blown out of the building, it looks like they actually played pretty good defense.  Guard play is always where its a huge challenge in this type of situation--the quickness and natural ability of a solid D1 guard is hard to compete with.  But Shane Sowden, at this point, IS a D1 Caliber player and he proved it tonight and against American, where he also led all scorers.

I'm shocked that York went down, but...that's why they play the games! Puts York and CUA back at square one...you can argue which loss is worse (margin worse for CUA, but opponent worse for York), so its kind of a wash.  Huge win for Salisbury though---they played CUA VERY tough in the CAC tournament last year.

[Matt Letourneau]

Sorta related...Mike Longeran's Vermont Catamounts beat New Hampshire tonight to improve to 3-4.  They've also beaten Wagner and Holy Cross.  The lost by just 10 at Providence at 7 at Harvard, but have  to play at Pitt coming up...

Considering they had virtually no holdover talent from last year and are incredibly young, a good showing so far for Mike.

[cugrad]

Catholic played Davidson tough. Davidson is not a weak D-1 team. This is a team that led Maryland by about 13 points at halftime last March in the NIT. They are a legit NCAA tournament contender! This is a team that led Missouri by 18 with 14 minutes left in the game earlier this week. Catholic was down 18 with about 11 minutes left in the game. Great gane by Sowden! The Cards played them evenly in most categories except three point shooting. Hopefully, the Cards will play with the same intensity throughout the rest of the season.

GO Cards!!!

[seahawks]

All the sudden the CAC is not "good competition"..... I thought the CAC was supposedly all the sudden a good conference.  How about we stop hating on Tyson Lesesne and start appreciating his game.  THE KID CAN PLAY BASKETBALL.  Everybody wants to get bitter and talk S#@! but lets jujst give credit where credit is due.  Salisbury, great win, could be a tough competitor in the CAC.  York still the favorite, obviously.  Catholic gonna play tough no matter who they play.  Mary Wash can beat anybody, anywhere at any given time.....  SMC a team to be reckoned with.  Sowden and Lesesne the two best players in the CAC, hands down....Baker a close third because of his impressive showing this year, very good player.  Lets go Hawks and lets put the rumors to rest and enjoy the CAC season.

[cuainfo]

DAVIDSON, N.C. -- For the second straight game, Davidson led from wire-to-wire, defeating Catholic University on Saturday evening at Belk Arena, 80-56. Senior Brendan Winters posted a team-high 16 points to surpass 1,500 in his career and lead Davidson to its 12th straight home win while improving to 5-2 on the season. The Cardinals, ranked 25th in the preseason Division III polls, dropped to 6-2.

Winters, the reigning Southern Conference Player of the Year, hit 4-of-11 shots from the floor as well as all six foul shots to tally his 16 points. He now has 1,509 points in his career, moving into ninth place on Davidson's all-time list, ahead of former NBA player Brandon Williams ' 96.

The Wildcat defense was dominant in the opening stanza, holding Catholic to just 4-of-25 (.160) from the floor, including 0-of-9 on three-point attempts. The Cardinals did hold their own on the boards, hauling in 20 off the glass to 19 for Davidson.

While Catholic was struggling to find its stroke, the Wildcats also started slowly, connecting on just three of their first 12 shots, yet still led eight minutes into the game, 11-5. But Davidson went on to hit six of its next seven shots, which began a 12-0 run as the 'Cats built a 30-11 lead. Senior Ian Johnson canned his second of two three-pointers to culminate the run.

After the Johnson three, Davidson went scoreless for more than four minutes while the Cardinals drained six free throws. The Wildcats finished the half with buckets by Johnson and Jason Morton to take a 34-17 lead into the locker room.

Davidson gradually extended its lead in the second half, with Johnson knocking down a jumper with 11:14 left for a 52-32 lead. The Wildcat lead never dropped below 20 again and grew to as many as 31 as head coach Bob McKillop cleared his bench. Both teams shot 50 percent from the floor and from downtown over the final 20 minutes. Davidson finished the game with a slight rebounding edge, 37-35, and handed out 22 assists on its 26 field goals.

Johnson was the only other Wildcat in double figures with 14 points, 10 coming in the first half. Sophomore Thomas Sander came off the bench to snare a team-high seven rebounds, and senior point guard Kenny Grant dished off six assists.

Davidson entered the week sixth in the country in fewest turnovers per game, but its 12 in the game was just over its season average of 10.7 per game. Catholic, meanwhile, turned the ball over 19 times.

The Wildcats drilled 10-of-23 (.435) three-pointers, just the second time this season they have scored at least 10 in a game. And their season-low 75 percent from the foul line (18-of-24) knocks them from the top spot in the country for free throw percentage, which had been .844.

Center Shane Sowden starred for Catholic, scoring a game-high 19 points on 6-of-8 from the floor and 7-of-8 from the charity stripe. No other Cardinal managed to tally more than seven points as the squad shot just 33.3 percent (17-of-51) on its field goals.

Davidson returns to the court following the completion of first-semester exams on Dec. 15 when it hosts another Division III opponent, St. Mary's (Md.), at 7 p.m. Catholic will host McDaniel on Dec. 19 at 7 p.m.