seitz
JESSE CAREY
80
Winner Penn St.-Lehigh Val. PSHLV 1-0
79
Marywood MU 0-1,0-0 Atlantic East
Winner
Penn St.-Lehigh Val. PSHLV
1-0
80
Final
79
Marywood MU
0-1,0-0 Atlantic East
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Penn St.-Lehigh Val. PSHLV 24 41 15 80
Marywood MU 35 30 14 79

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Pacers Outlasted by Lions in Overtime Thriller

Scranton, Pa. – Marywood University played to a thrilling finish before ultimately falling in an 80-79 overtime thriller against Penn State Lehigh Valley Friday to open the men's basketball season. The Pacers and Lions played before a raucous crowd of 555 fans.
 
Trevor Seitz scored 28 points in his season debut. Seitz made 11 of 15 shots from the field, including a 4 of 6 performance from beyond the arc.

Corey Perkins set a new men's basketball program single game record with his game-high 12 assists in the loss.. 
 
Three other Pacers joined Seitz in double figures. Brendan Franko and Jason Holman both contributed 13 points. Adam Boussatta provided 10 points.
 
Defensively, Perkins collected nine rebounds. Franko swiped five steals, and Boussatta forced four takeaways. Matt McKenna blocked three shots.
 
The Lions came back from an 11-point deficit at halftime to even the score with 5:37 remaining on a KI Barnes layup in the paint. Seitz quickly drained a 3-pointer to take the lead, and later hit a long ball to cut a four-point deficit down to one at the 2:01 mark.
 
Seitz connected on a jumper in the pain with 30 seconds to take a 65-64 advantage. A quick four put Barnes at the charity stripe, and he made one of two to square the score at 65-65 apiece.
 
After a Franko layup from Boussatta gave Marywood the quick advantage out of the break, Penn State Lehigh Valley responded with an eight-point run over a 1:21 span. Talek Williams stole the ball and went on a fast break for a dunk to take a 73-67 lead with 3:22 left on the scoreboard.
 
A Holman jumper at the top of the key invoked life into the Pacers to make it a four-point game. The Lions quickly turned around two field goals, punctuated by a Williams' slam that both gave the Lions a decisive 77-69 lead and set a late Pacers' comeback effort in motion with a technical for hanging on the rim. Marywood generated a six-point run in 21 seconds, thanks to a Holman long-range shot and a Franko steal and layup.
 
Lehigh Valley put together three points to avert a tremendous Marywood comeback. The Pacers scored four points in the last five minutes to make it a one-point game with just fractions of a second left. Mason Mendryal scored on a jumper from Corey Perkins, and Boussatta picked up an inbounds pass and put it into the net to chop the difference to one.
 
The Pacers had a 52-2 advantage in points in the paint. The Lions edged the Pacers 41-40 off the glass. Both teams combined for 59 turnovers. Penn State shot 47.6 percent at the line to the Pacers' 46.2, and Lehigh Valley made half of its attempts to the Pacers' 46.5 percent mark.
 
Marywood will look to get in the win column Tuesday when it hosts Penn State Scranton.
 
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