mcgaughey
Abbie Wheelan
103
Winner Bellarmine BU 13-2, 5-0 GLVC
96
Quincy QU 15-2, 5-1 GLVC
Winner
Bellarmine BU
13-2, 5-0 GLVC
103
Final
96
Quincy QU
15-2, 5-1 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Bellarmine BU 38 47 18 103
Quincy QU 39 46 11 96

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

#9 Bellarmine Snaps #24 Quincy's Streak in OT Thriller

QUINCY, Ill. – The 24th-ranked Quincy University men's basketball team met No. 9 Bellarmine on Thursday (Jan. 12) night in one of Pepsi Arena's most anticipated games in recent memory. Fans were treated to a back-and-forth, bruising affair that saw the Knights come out with a 103-96 overtime win.
 
The defeat snapped the Hawks' 14-game winning streak, their longest since opening the 2009-10 season with 16 straight wins.
 
Thursday's game featured 10 ties and 13 lead changes as the teams traded blows throughout the game.
 
Senior forward Joseph Tagarelli (Waunakee, Wis./Kirkwood CC) answered an Al Davis 3-pointer by converting on a drop-step layin with 45 seconds left in regulation to give the Hawks (15-2, 5-1 GLVC) an 82-81 lead. Rusty Troutman responded for the Knights (13-2, 5-0 GLVC) by knocking down two free throws after being fouled on a drive attempt.
 
The Hawks moved quickly in their next offensive set and Tagarelli spun a twirling layup off the glass and converted on a three-point play to give Quincy an 85-83 lead with 13 seconds remaining in regulation. Bellarmine, though, freed up Adam Eberhard, who sank a 10-foot jumper to tie the game at 85-85 with 2.9 seconds left. A 40-foot heave by senior guard Herm Senor II (Springfield, Ill./Southeast) hit back iron to send the game to overtime.
 
The Hawks were never able to grab the lead in overtime as the Knights shot 6-for-8 from the floor in the extra period. Two separate 3-pointers by Senor and senior guard Von Washington III (Kalamazoo, Mich./Kalamazoo Central/Western Michigan) tied the game at 89 and 94, but a triple by Jarek Coles with 1:07 left gave BU a 101-96 lead. The Knights followed that by getting a stop and the Hawks could not make up the deficit.
 
Bellarmine led by as many as 11 points in the first half before the Hawks fought back into the game on the shoulders of senior forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West). The fifth-year player scored on six straight possessions, amassing 14 points in a two-and-a-half minute stretch. His put-back with six minutes left in the first half gave QU a 30-29 lead.
 
The Hawks would take a 39-38 lead into halftime and stretch their lead to as many as nine points, 53-44, with 15:20 remaining in the second half after a 3-pointer by senior guard Grant Meyer (Sellersburg, Ind./Silver Creek) and a layin by McGaughey, who collected his own free throw miss.
 
Bellarmine took the lead back with 4:40 to play on an Alex Cook 3-pointer as the teams traded punches until the final buzzer.

McGaughey led the Hawks with a season-high 30 points to go with 13 rebounds and four steals for his third double-double of the season. Tagarelli finished with 24 points and eight rebounds.
 
Washington chipped in with 15 points. Meyer had 12 points and Senor scored 10 points and dished out nine assists.
 
The Hawks shot 51 percent (33-for-65) from the floor, but the Knights hit at a 58 percent (35-for-60) clip. Quincy hit 12 3-pointers.
 
Eberhard led the Knights with 30 points on 11-for-15 shooting. Troutman scored 13 of his 25 points from the charity stripe.
 
The Hawks will return to the Pepsi Arena floor on Saturday (Jan. 14) at 3:15 p.m. to take on undefeated and 10th-ranked Southern Indiana (15-0, 5-0 GLVC). The Screaming Eagles toppled Truman State, 111-89, in Kirksville on Thursday.
 
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