Gwynedd Mercy Topples Marywood, 93-71
Marywood fell on the road Thursday and plays at Immaculata Saturday

Gwynedd Mercy Topples Marywood, 93-71

Men's Basketball - 1/7/2016 8:59:00 PM

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Gwynedd Valley, PA - Host Gwynedd Mercy College started strong and remained unbeaten in CSAC action (5-0) with a 93-71 win over Marywood University Thursday evening in men's basketball action. Both the Griffins (7-5 overall) and Pacers (4-8, 0-5 CSAC) placed four players in double figures.

Marywood's Cory Callejas and GMU's Julian Hyden recorded 16 points.  Connor Callejas and Shane Letthand both had 13 for Marywood while Tip Schwartz added 10.

The Griffins jumped out to a 20-point halftime lead (43-23) by limiting the Pacers to 27.3% shooting (6 of 22) in the opening half.  Despite playing evenly with the Griffins in the second half and the hosts only out-scoring Marywood 50-48, the Pacers could not climb back from their first half deficit.

Gwynedd had a 45-30 edge in rebounds and got a double-double from Cedric Elleby (15 points, 12 boards).  

Marywood's bench out-scored Gwynedd's by five (32-27) and the Pacers had more points off of turnovers than the Griffins (20-14), but the hosts out-scored Marywood 44-26 in the paint and the Pacers allowed 23 second chance points.

Marywood returns to action Saturday with a 3:00 pm tilt at Immaculata University.
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