MBB: Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Arealbasketballplayer]

Salem State just beat the mighty WPI by 12.......i think their ready to be taken serious lead by McCombs And Downie

[mattapn02126]

Bridgewater (7-3) slaps Westfield by 15, big game for Soph. Roland Millien with 14 and 16.  Salem (8-2) wins easily at Lasell. Looks like a possible two horse race already...

[heythere]

i wouldnt count westfield out already, they have salem this thursday lets see what happens there first. Westfield as a very good starting 4, there bench really hurts them

[mattapn02126]

yeah definitely a big game on thursday. bridgewater lost to endicott, who is down this year. if salem plays together, they should run the table, theres some talent on that squad.

[mattapn02126]

Bridgewater tops MCLA 82 -73. Monster games from Adam Rose and Derek Thompson who combined for 49 points and 20 rebounds. Damn. BSC improves to 3-0 in the MASCAC and 9-4 overall.

Fitchburg (3-10) goes down 74 - 63 at Wheaton (8-6) despite 20 and 7 from Brian Torres.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Um.  I'm not sure beating MCLA by 9 is something to brag about.  I'm just saying.

[mattapn02126]

haha definitely not; those were the only mascac teams playin last night is all.

[dman]

mcla might be better than you think....

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

mcla might be better than you think....

I doubt it.

[thebear]

Actually MCLA is better this year.

They picked up Dave Bisesi who was in the regular rotation for Potsdam when they went to the elite 8.  He's averaging around 20, with a high of 47 in a quintuple OT game vs. SUNY Maritime.

They also picked up a juco shooting guard at Mid-semester, Jared Martin who is avaraging around 12 since joining the team in mid-semester.

They have three legitimate scorers, so anyone taking them lightly (e.g. Framingham last week) may be surprised.

[mattapn02126]

Westfield at Salem tonight at 8 big game for the MASCAC.

[mattapn02126]

SSC 75 WSC 59

[All-around]

Looks like Salem is the Cream of the Crop in the Mascac this year.

[Gr8Day2BaBear]

first of all mcla is not better then ya think....bsc was missing star shooter and mascac leading scorer (tied with downie) tommy cuddihy....not only that but the 9 point win did not show what really happened in the game because bsc led by high double figures until mcla started jackin up 3's all day and gettin a few to make it look close

second of all i think u gotta wait til after next thursday to say salem's on top because westfield is not good this year....so until salem beats bsc or the other way around there's nothing to be said....and if cuddihy's not back healthy for that game then u really can not say anything yet

[mattapn02126]

Quick recap of last nights games

Salem wins at Emmanuel 68 - 62. The Vikings (11-2) have won four straight and ten of their last eleven. 4 players in double figures for SSC : Downie (17) McCombs (13, 17 rebs.) Victor (12) and Finn (11).

Westfield (10-6) loses to Fisher (5-13) 81-65. Fisher guard Michael Newcombe had an insane stat line: 38 points, 14 boards, 6 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks on 50 % shooting. Ryan Mauer (16) and Gavin Illangakoon (10) paced the Owls.

Worcester State loses at home to Newbury in OT 77-70.  WSC (6-9) got good efforts from Ryan Frassica with 28 and Will Spont with 18.  Arch Mitchell had 21 and Kevin Cleveland 17 to lead Newbury (7-6) to victory.

Bridgewater goes on the road and wins at UMASS - Boston 74-71. Tom Cuddihy had 23 points to lead BSC. K.C. Grandfield ran the show well with 10 dimes to only 2 turnovers, and forward Derek Thompson had a solid game as well with 17 and 6 boards ( and a nice flush ). UMB got 23 from Amigo Paniagua and 17 from Tony Barros. Bridgewater improves to 10-4 while UMB falls to 5-10.