Pacers Edge Defenders for First CSAC Win
Strong play from Tyrone Baker helped Marywood pick up their first CSAC win of the season against BBC

Pacers Edge Defenders for First CSAC Win

Men's Basketball - 12/5/2012 9:06:00 PM

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Scranton, PA - Marywood University got a 19 point effort from Shane Kellaher and a double-double from Ian Stout as the Pacers held off Baptist Bible College 77-74 to get their first CSAC win of the season Wednesday night at the Insalaco Arena. Four players reached double-figures for Marywood as the Pacers ended a three-game slide to move to 2-5, 1-2 CSAC. Baptist Bible, who had beaten Marywood in a non-CSAC game at the Laurel Line Tournament in the second game of the season, falls to 2-5, 0-2 CSAC with the loss.

A back and forth affair througout, the lead changed hands nine times during the course of the game. The first came when Marywood's Andrew Andrle hit a three to put the Pacers up 3-2 and Marywood used that to key a 9-2 run to take an early five point lead. Baptist Bible fought back though and eventually reclaimed a 10-9 lead on a jumper from David Osborn at the 15:25 mark.

Another three from Andrle put Marywood back up 14-0 a few minutes later and the teams continued to trade leads throughout the first half with Marywood going into intermission up one, 29-28.

Despite being tight the rest of the way, the lead would only change hands two times in the second half.  The Defenders opened the stanza with three straight points and Marywood did not connect from the floor for a six-minute stretch that went back to the 2:06 mark of the first half.  Finally, a layup from Kellaher ended that drought and got Marywood back to within one (32-31) and a trey from Jonathan Velazquez gave Marywood its next lead (34-32), one it would not relinquish. 

Marywood would go up by as many as nine in the second half but each time the Defenders would claw their way back into the game.  Down five (66-61) with 3:11 to play, BBC made six consecutive free throws.  Marywood responded each time with a jumper at the end though and held on to a slight lead the rest of the way.  A three from Abe Valentine got BBC back to with two with :13 seconds remaining, but Kellaher made three straight field goals before purposely missing his final attempt with 0.5 seconds left.

For the game, Kellaher led all Marywood scorers with 19 points. Andrle added 14 while Tyrone Baker added 12. Stout had 11 points and agame-high 13 boards for his first collegiate double-double. BBC's Dan Dodd led all scorers with a game-high 20 points. Three other Defenders reached double digits.

Marywood returns to action Saturday when it travels to Philadelphia to take on Rosemont College. Tip-off is at 1 p.m.
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