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89
Winner Wilkes WILKES 6-1,0-0 MAC Free
76
Marywood MUMB 3-6,0-0 Atlantic
Winner
Wilkes WILKES
6-1,0-0 MAC Free
89
Final
76
Marywood MUMB
3-6,0-0 Atlantic
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wilkes WILKES 49 40 89
Marywood MUMB 38 38 76

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Wilkes Outlasts Marywood, 89-76

Scranton, Pa. - Donovan Catchings scored a game-high 24 points, but Wilkes University placed four players in double figures en route to a 89-76 win over the Pacers Wednesday evening at the Insalaco Arena. Marywood fell to 3-6 with the loss while the Colonels improved to 6-1 with the win.

The Pacers jumped out to an early lead, taking an 8-0 lead off of a series of Colonels turnovers.  The Colonels clawed back into the lead with a 16-4 run thanks to four three-pointers from four Colonels.  The Colonels built their lead to as much as 19 points at multiple points late in the half, and went into the intermission with a 49-38 lead.

Marywood got to within seven points of the Colonels three times in the first five minutes of the second half, but each time Wilkes responded to push their lead back to double figures.

Catchings' game-high 24 came on 7 of 11 shooting from the floor and 10 of 12 from the free throw line.  Wilkes held Marywood's top scorer on the season, Jack DeGroot, in check with 12 points.  Tom DeFilippo had 14 for Marywood, while Joey Monaghan added 10.  

Jake Robel led Wilkes with 19.  Mark Mullins added 18, while Rob Peconelli added 12, 11 of which came in the first half.  Pecorelli added a game-high eight assists.

Marywood will host Misericordia at 3:00 pm Saturday.
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