By: By: Bill Morgal, Sports Information Director
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Four Red Raiders posted double figures in scoring and sophomore
Lamar Jackson contributed nine assists on Friday night as the Shippensburg University men's basketball team earned a 74-70 victory over Nyack in the fourth game of the 2010 Wolf's Bus Lines Classic.
Shippensburg (1-1) got a game-high 17 points from junior
Craig Van Scyoc, and 13 points each from juniors
Jordan Stasyszyn and
Dane Lauber. Stasyszyn added six rebounds; Lauber totaled four assists and senior
Justin Minter had 10 points. Freshman
Dylan Edgar led all players with 11 rebounds.
The Red Raiders committed just eight turnovers, the fewest in one game since January 2009, while hitting eight three-pointers overall and shooting 48 percent from the field in the second half.
With 11:56 remaining, the score sat 47-47. SU went on a 13-1 run over the next three-and-a-half minutes, but the Warriors were vigilant and kept gnawing at the Red Raider advantage. The visitors trimmed their deficit to one point at 4:41 and had several chances to take the lead in the last two minutes, but Nyack never regained the lead it held early in the second half.
Nyack (0-3) got 16 points from Ryan Woodard and 14 points from James Oyamo and trailed by two points with 17 seconds to go. After a pair of missed free throws, the Warriors raced up the floor but committed a charge that gave the ball back to Shippensburg. Lauber sunk two free throws with eight seconds remaining to ice the win.
Van Scyoc was 4-of-6 from three-point range in the contest and continued his torrid shooting from the outside. Edgar and Jackson both finished just two points short of double figures.
Minter did not start but provided 17 extremely valuable minutes off the bench, shooting 50 percent from the field and drawing several charges while not committing a turnover.
The Red Raiders will host Philadelphia tomorrow at 8 p.m. from Heiges Field House in the eighth and final game of the 2010 Wolf's Bus Lines Classic.