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Scranton, PA – Visiting Gwynedd-Mercy College used a 15-0 run to erase an early Marywood lead and never looked back on their way to a 78-43 win Thursday night in a PAC contest at the Insalaco Arena. With the win, the Griffins upped their record to 16-7 on the season and 9-5 in the PAC while the Pacers dropped their tenth straight game, falling to 6-16 overall and 0-14 in the conference.
Marywood jumped out to a quick 6-3 lead with 17:51 to play in the first half, but the Griffins rattled off 15 straight points over the next seven minutes to take an 18-6 lead with 10:53 to play. The visitors continued to control the game and used a 13-4 run later in the period to build a 21-point lead heading into halftime.
Tom Keenan led all scorers with 10 points in the first half for Gwynedd-Mercy, who shot 55 percent from the floor in the opening stanza.
The Pacers, who shot just 16 percent from the floor in the half, were led by Karl Anderson's (Northampton, PA) seven points.
Marywood picked up its play after returning from the locker room, outscoring the Griffins 13-8 in the opening seven minutes of the second half and narrowed Gwynedd-Mercy's lead to 16 points on consecutive lay-ups by Jerome Gosney (Binghamton, NY) and Matthew Medici (Princeton Junction, NJ). However, this is as close as the Pacers would come as the Griffins responded with a 13-2 run to take a commanding 59-32 lead with 8:42 to play.
Gwynedd-Mercy was led by Keenan and Tim McCauley who each scored 12 points. The Griffins finished the evening shooting 49 percent from the floor and out-rebounded the Pacers 46-40.
Joshua Pena (New York City, NY) had a team-high 10 points for the Pacers, while Medici finished the evening with eight points and seven rebounds. Marywood finished the game shooting 24 percent from the floor.
The Pacers will look to break their losing skid on Saturday when they travel to Neumann College for a 3:00 PAC tilt.
