jackson
Mathew Kirby
67
Quincy QU 0-1
76
Winner Grand Valley State GV 1-0
Quincy QU
0-1
67
Final
76
Grand Valley State GV
1-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Quincy QU 37 30 67
Grand Valley State GV 35 41 76

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Fall in Back-And-Forth Affair at GVSU

ALLENDALE, Mich. – The Quincy University men's basketball team tangled with Grand Valley State on Saturday (Nov. 14) in a tight season-opening battle, but the Lakers came out with a 76-67 win in the opener of the GLVC/GLIAC Challenge at Fieldhouse Arena.
 
It was the second time in as many years the teams played a close contest as GVSU took a 69-67 win over the Hawks last season at Pepsi Arena in the same event, which will rotate to Missouri-St. Louis next season. Ferris State, QU's opponent on Sunday, is the fourth team in the cross-conference challenge.
 
The teams traded the lead 18 times on Saturday as neither could really garner any separation. The Hawks (0-1) led by nine, 22-13, with 10 minutes left in the first half after a 7-0 run capped by a 3-pointer by sophomore guard Bobby Frasco (Mt. Prospect, Ill./Prospect/Buffalo).
 
The Lakers (1-0) regained the lead late in the first half, but senior guard Thomas Jackson (Louisville, Ky./Cincinnati State) stepped into a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to give Quincy a 37-35 lead going into the break.
 
In the second half, both teams turned up their intensity as the game sped up into a transition-type game.
 
The Hawks, who committed just three turnovers in the first half, had eight miscues in the second half and shot just 37 percent (10-for-27) in the last 20 minutes.
 
Still, Quincy led by as many as six in the second half, including after a monster alley-oop slam by senior wing Godson Eneogwe (Chicago, Ill./Maine West/Illinois Central), who threw down a lob from junior guard Herm Senor II (Springfield, Ill./Southeast) over a GVSU defender. That gave QU a 53-47 lead with 11:33 to play.
 
Junior forward Joseph Tagarelli (Bayside, Wis./Waunakee/Kirkwood CC) knocked down a short jumper to give QU a 59-56 lead with 8:09 left before the Lakers went on an 11-0 run over a four-minute stretch to take a 67-59 lead.
 
The Hawks got it down to 70-67 after Senor buried a couple free throws with 1:29 remaining, but the Lakers won the free throw competition from there as the Hawks could get no closer.
 
The Hawks shot 42.1 percent (24-for-57) from the field while the Lakers connected at a 42.6 percent clip (23-for-54). Quincy missed all seven of its 3-pointers in the second half after hitting at a 50 percent (6-for-12) clip in the first. GVSU attempted more free throws, 36-15.
 
Tagarelli paced the Hawks with 12 points on 6-for-10 shooting. Jackson had 10 points, three rebounds, three assists and two blocks. Junior forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West) finished with eight points and seven boards. Eneogwe scored eight points and blocked two shots, while senior forward Dalton Hoover (Pittsfield, Ill.) added six points and three blocks.
 
Luke Ryskamp and Aaron Hayes finished with 17 points apiece to lead the Lakers.
 
The Hawks return to the floor on Sunday (Nov. 15) when they take on Ferris State at 1 p.m. CT. The Bulldogs defeated Missouri-St. Louis, 80-55, in Saturday's first game at Fieldhouse Arena.
 
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