Sully nets career-best 18 as
Ravens end seven-game Conference skid
RINDGE, N.H. (January 15,
2005) - Franklin Pierce snapped a seven-game Conference
losing streak with a 79-57 victory over Southern Connecticut State
University in Northeast-10 Conference men's basketball action at
the Franklin Pierce Fieldhouse this afternoon
Junior Pierre Sully
(Jamaica Plain, Mass./North Cambridge Catholic) led a
balanced Franklin Pierce offense with 18 points (11 first half) as
he hit six-of-11 shots from the field, including 3-5 from
three-point range, and grabbed a team-best six rebounds to go with
four steals.
Junior Justin Powell
(Brookline, Mass./Brookline) added 12 points, four
boards, four assists, two blocks and two steals for the Ravens,
while classmate Douaine Anderson (Wolverhampton,
England) finished with a season-best matching 11
points (nine first
half).
Senior Mike McCurdy
(Milford, Conn./Staples) was the lone Southern
Connecticut player in double-figures with ten points. Sophomore
Ernie Brown (Mt. Vernon, N.Y./Mt. Vernon)
finished with nine points, six rebounds, three assists and three
steals, while junior Stephen Bernard (Brockton,
Mass./Brockton) chipped in nine points and four
boards.
Trailing by a point (11-10) midway
through the first half, Franklin Pierce used a 17-4 run to open a
12-point lead (27-15) with 6:24 to play in the stanza. Powell
scored back-to-back hoops to start the run, but it was a pair of
conventional three-point plays by Anderson, sandwiched around a
Sully three, that sparked the burst.
Junior Tom Sadler
(Oxford, England/Farmington (N.H.)) canned a
three-pointer to put the Ravens up 14 (35-21) with 3:32 to play in
the half, and then sophomore Darryl Minnifield (Boston,
Mass./Brookline) preserved that cushion with as
lay-up off an SCSU turnover as the Ravens took a 41-27 lead into
the lockerroom.
Southern scored the first six
points of the second half to cut its deficit to eight points
(41-33) 2:27 into the stanza. A lay-up from junior Mike
Yacenda (Stamford, Conn./Stamford) pulled the Owls
within seven (43-36) with 15:49 to play, but that was as close as
they would get as Franklin Pierce scored eight straight points to
open a 15-point lead (51-36), its largest of the game at that
point, with 13:18 left on the clock. Minnifield sparked the stretch
with a three-pointer and added a free throw as well.
Franklin Pierce would not let
Southern any closer than 11 points the rest of the way and the
Ravens lead ballooned to as much as 23 after a Minnifield
free-throw with 4:04 to play.
Franklin Pierce (4-10, 2-7 NE-10)
returns to action on Monday when it visits No. 18 College of Saint
Rose at 7:30 p.m. Southern Connecticut State (3-11, 1-9 NE-10)
hosts Southern New Hampshire University on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
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