senor II
Nicholas Kedzuch
64
Missouri-St. Louis UMSL 12-4, 4-2 GLVC
81
Winner Quincy QU 8-9, 2-5 GLVC
Missouri-St. Louis UMSL
12-4, 4-2 GLVC
64
Final
81
Quincy QU
8-9, 2-5 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Missouri-St. Louis UMSL 32 32 64
Quincy QU 51 30 81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Take Down GLVC West Co-Leader UMSL, 81-64

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University men's basketball team shot lights out in the first half and maintained a strong defensive mentality throughout the game to dispatch GLVC West co-leader Missouri-St. Louis, 81-64, at Pepsi Arena on Saturday (Jan. 17) afternoon.
 
The Hawks (8-9, 2-5 GLVC) scored the game's first five points as they forced the Tritons (12-4, 4-2 GLVC) to go 0-for-3 from the field with two turnovers on their first five possessions.
 
Missouri-St. Louis battled back with a 6-0 run, getting two buckets from forward Tylor Wimbish, who averaged 25.5 points per game against the Hawks last season. The Hawks wound up limiting him to just 11 points and four boards on Saturday.
 
Quincy followed up that drought with a 13-3 run as the Hawks forced UMSL into four straight turnovers and junior guards Nate Des Jardins (Peoria, Ill./Richwoods) and Thomas Jackson (Louisville, Ky./Cincinnati State) each knocked down 3-pointers in that stretch.
 
Des Jardins buried another three to give the Hawks a 21-12 lead with 12:04 to play in the first half.
 
The Tritons trimmed the lead to 29-21 on a 3-pointer by Alex Majewski, but senior guard Ja'mil Jones (Blythewood, S.C./Pasco Hernando CC) and senior forward Scott Hahn (Mt. Pleseant, Iowa) hit back-to-back treys to start an 8-0 run that was capped by an incredible defense-to-offense play.
 
Junior wing Godson Eneogwe (Chicago, Ill./Illinois Central) blocked a short jumper by Aareon Smith that led to a fast-break opportunity as redshirt-sophomore forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West) dished the ball to Jones, who brought it down the floor and through a perfect lob to a running McGaughey for a sublime alley-oop that brought the largest QU crowd of the season to its feet.
 
The Hawks led by as many as 22 in the first half as they shot 57.1 percent (20-for-35) from the floor and went 7-for-13 (53.8 percent) from 3-point range. Every QU player that saw time in the opening 20 minutes made a basket. Quincy took a 51-32 lead into halftime after Smith banked in a 3-pointer from 35 feet at the buzzer.
 
In the second half, the Tritons started to make a run as the Hawks went cold from the field for a stretch as the visitors pulled to within nine, 61-52 with 10 minutes to play.
 
That run for UMSL ended quickly. Eneogwe drained a deep 3-pointer, the Hawks got a stop, and then Des Jardins was left open for a corner three and buried it off a pass from Eneogwe that pushed the Hawks' lead back to 15.
 
The lead never slipped under 14 points the rest of the way as the Hawks showed their grit even as the minutes wound down. With just over four minutes left, QU nearly turned the ball over, but Senor II dove to the ball at midcourt, beating two UMSL players and in one motion fired a pass to McGaughey, who flushed it with two hands for the game's exclamation point and a 79-56 lead.


 
Hahn and Eneogwe led the Hawks with 12 points apiece as 11 QU players scored a field goal. Des Jardins finished with nine points and Jackson, Senor II and senior center Josh Schaben (Defiance, Iowa/Iowa Lakes CC) all scored eight points. McGaughey had seven points and 10 boards.
 
The Hawks limited the Tritons to just 38.7 percent (24-for-62) shooting from the floor, while connecting on 47.6 percent (30-for-63) of their shots from the field. Quincy also outscored UMSL, 40-16, in the paint and the bench had a 42-34 advantage.
 
The Hawks will look to keep momentum in their favor on Thursday (Jan. 22) when they welcome Rockhurst to Pepsi Arena for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off.
 
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