senor II
Nicholas Kedzuch
82
Illinois Springfield UIS 6-7, 0-3 GLVC
93
Winner Quincy QU 9-4, 3-1 GLVC
Illinois Springfield UIS
6-7, 0-3 GLVC
82
Final
93
Quincy QU
9-4, 3-1 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Illinois Springfield UIS 36 46 82
Quincy QU 42 51 93

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

Second Half Run Lifts Hawks Over UIS, 93-82

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University men's basketball team used an impressive second-half run to defeat Illinois Springfield, 93-82, on Thursday (Jan. 7) night at Pepsi Arena in the Hawks' return to Great Lakes Valley Conference play.
 
The Hawks (9-4, 3-1 GLVC) have now won four straight games and nine of their last 10. They sit in a four-way tie atop the GLVC West standings with Missouri S&T, Truman and Drury.
 
Quincy took a six-point lead into halftime, 42-36, but that was the largest lead either team would have until six minutes remained the game as the lead changed hands six times in the second half.
 
A three-point play by UIS' Davi Austin tied the game at 63-63 apiece before the Hawks reeled off a 12-1 run over a two-minute stretch that gave the home team command of the game.
 
Plenty of emotion was mixed in that two-minute stretch. The run started with a layup by junior forward Joseph Tagarelli (Bayside, Wis./Waunakee/Kirkwood CC). After Austin missed a jumper, junior guard Herm Senor II (Springfield, Ill./Southeast) took advantage of a third-chance opportunity and converted a layup.

Senor then fed senior guard Nate Des Jardins (Peoria, Ill./Richwoods) on a back-door layup. Des Jardins then picked up a steal and sent it ahead to senior guard Thomas Jackson (Louisville, Ky./Jeffersontown/Cincinnati State), who was fouled and crashed to the floor while converting a layup that stretched Quincy's lead to 71-64.
 
Jackson suffered a serious arm injury on the play and will miss the remainder of the season, dealing the Hawks another serious injury blow to its rotation that is already short several bodies.
 
Junior guard Von Washington III (Kalamazoo, Mich./Kalamazoo Central/Western Michigan) knocked down the ensuing free throws before senior wing Godson Eneogwe (Chicago, Ill./Maine West/Illinois Central) hit a slashing layup off a nice feed from Tagarelli.
 
The run gave Quincy a 75-64 lead with 5:27 remaining in the game. Washington's 3-pointer pushed QU's lead to 78-66, but the Stars clawed back with back-to-back triples to cut the lead to six points.
 
Senor and Tagarelli then scored back-to-back buckets to push the lead back to 10 points. After a QU turnover Jamall Millison's trey cut the lead to 87-82 with just under a minute left.
 
The Hawks eliminated any further notions of a comeback by going 6-for-6 from the stripe in the final minute.
 
In the first half, the Hawks led by as many as 12 points, but the Prairie Stars chipped it down to six points by halftime.
 
Junior forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill.) had one of the best games of his career, finishing with 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds to go with four assists and two steals. It was his seventh career double-double.
 
Senor had career night with a career-best 23 points on 6-for-8 shooting, including a 3-for-5 mark from 3-point range. He also had four rebounds and three assists.  
 
Tagarelli finished with 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting with a career-high five assists and three rebounds. Jackson and Washington scored 12 points apiece.
 
Austin had a game-high 25 points to lead the Prairie Stars. Quincy shot 55.2 percent (32-for-58) from the field, while holding UIS to a 45.5 percent (30-for-66) mark. The Hawks out-rebounded the Stars, 42-31.
 
The Hawks return to the floor on Saturday (Jan. 9) when they take on McKendree at 3:15 p.m. at Pepsi Arena.
 
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