tagarelli
Mathew Kirby
88
Winner Southern Indiana USI 16-0, 6-0 GLVC
85
Quincy QU 15-3, 5-2 GLVC
Winner
Southern Indiana USI
16-0, 6-0 GLVC
88
Final
85
Quincy QU
15-3, 5-2 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Southern Indiana USI 32 56 88
Quincy QU 40 45 85

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

#10 USI Steals Late Win Over #24 Quincy at Pepsi Arena

QUINCY, Ill. – The 24th-ranked Quincy University men's basketball team held the lead for most of the game, but undefeated 10th-ranked Southern Indiana rallied late to sneak away from Pepsi Arena with an 88-85 win in a classic Great Lakes Valley Conference matchup on Saturday (Jan. 14) afternoon.
 
The Hawks (15-3, 5-2 GLVC) suffered their second straight agonizing defeat after falling to No. 9 Bellarmine on Thursday in overtime. The Screaming Eagles (16-0, 6-0 GLVC) remained unbeaten on the season.
 
On Saturday, the Hawks led by five, 79-74, after senior forward Joseph Tagarelli (Waunakee, Wis./Kirkwood CC) finished a three-point play with three minutes remaining.

The Eagles then rattled off the next six points to take an 80-79 lead with 1:22 left. The Hawks again went inside on their next possession and Tagarelli buried a couple free throws after drawing contact.
 
Southern Indiana responded as Alex Stein found Bobo Drummond in the right corner and the Eagles' reserve, All-GLVC guard buried the 3-pointer to give USI an 83-81 lead. Stein and Drummond combined for 30 points in the second half.
 
The Hawks committed a turnover on the next possession and Stein hit a couple free throws to make it a two-possession game. Quincy turned to senior forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West) on their next possession and the fifth-year player dropped in a short jumper to cut the deficit to 85-83.
 
Drummond followed by sinking a pair of free throws before Tagarelli saved a QU missed 3-pointer and tipped it to McGaughey for a layup. Tagarelli and McGaughey combined for 53 points and 20 rebounds in the game.
 
Following a timeout, the Screaming Eagles were able to run the clock down to 1.3 seconds before a foul came. Marellous Washington hit the first free throw and purposefully missed the second to force a 90-foot heave by McGaughey that came up well short.
 
The first half saw six tie scores and eight lead changes before the Hawks went on an 8-0 run to close the half, holding the Eagles without a point for the last 5:49. QU took a 40-32 lead into halftime.
 
The Hawks built their lead as high as 11 points, 47-36, on a nifty transition alley-oop layup by McGaughey who finished an around the head pass by senior guard Herm Senor II (Springfield, Ill./Southeast) with 16:19 to play.
 
Just three minutes later, the Eagles tied the game at 49-49 with a 13-2 run capped by Stein's three-point play.
 
Quincy again went on a run and took two separate seven-point leads on back-to-back buckets by Tagarelli, but the Screaming Eagles used an 8-0 spurt to take a 67-66 lead with 6:56 to play.
 
There were 13 tie scores and 15 lead changes in the game.
 
McGaughey led the Hawks with 27 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks for his second straight double-double. Tagarelli scored 21 of his 26 points in the second half, making his last sseven shots from the field. Sophomore wing Marcus Hinton (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central/Lindenwood) tacked on 12 points in 20 minutes off the bench.
 
Stein led the Screaming Eagles with 18 points and 10 rebounds while Drummond scored 14 points. The Hawks held the GLVC's leading scorer, Jeril Taylor, to 15 points on 6-for-19 shooting, six points under his scoring average. He also had six rebounds and six assists.
 
The Hawks outshot the Eagles 50 percent (29-for-58) to 43 percent (31-for-73), but USI committed just seven turnovers to the Hawks' 14 and the led in second chance points, 12-2.
 
The Hawks will hit the road next week, beginning Thursday (Jan. 19) at 7:30 p.m. when they take on Missouri-St. Louis.
 
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