hinton
69
Quincy QU 15-4, 5-3 GLVC
70
Winner Missouri-St. Louis UMSL 9-9, 3-5 GLVC
Quincy QU
15-4, 5-3 GLVC
69
Final
70
Missouri-St. Louis UMSL
9-9, 3-5 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Quincy QU 41 28 69
Missouri-St. Louis UMSL 30 40 70

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Fall in Final Seconds at UMSL

QUINCY, Ill. – For the third straight time, the Quincy University men's basketball team lost a Great Lakes Valley Conference game at the wire, falling to Missouri-St. Louis, 70-69, at the Mark Twain Building on Thursday (Jan. 19) night.
 
Senior forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West) hit a turnaround jumper with 6.1 seconds left to give the Hawks (15-4, 5-3 GLVC) a 69-68 lead.
 
Without taking a timeout, Joseph English drove the length of the court and drew a foul at the rim with 1.2 seconds remaining. He sank both free throws to give the hosts a one-point lead.
 
After an UMSL timeout, senior guard Grant Meyer (Sellersburg, Ind./Silver Creek) launched a 60-foot pass into McGaughey's hands at the top of the arc. The Tritons (9-9, 3-5 GLVC) brought a double team and McGaughey's dribble as he tried to turn bounced off the leg of one of the defenders to end the game.
 
The teams traded the lead multiple times in the final minutes as McGaughey's jumper with 1:42 to play cut UMSL's lead to 66-65. On the following Missouri-St. Louis possession, sophomore wing Marcus Hinton (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central/Lindenwood) came away with a steal and finished with a slam at the other end to give QU a 67-66 lead.
 
Both teams traded misses before English spun in a layup with 24 seconds left. The Hawks had a chance to regain the lead on their next trip, but they committed a turnover. They were able to get the ball back on a trap after the inbounds, tying up Steven Davis under his own basket, leading to McGaughey's go-ahead jumper.
 
The Hawks held the lead throughout much of the first half, going ahead by as many as 13 points after Hinton's 3-pointer with 1:23 left before halftime. QU eventually took a 41-30 lead into the break.
 
In the second half, the Triton's used a 24-3 run to turn a 48-34 Quincy lead into a 58-51 advantage for the home team. In the meantime, the Hawks' leading scorer, senior Joseph Tagarelli (Waunakee, Wis.) battled foul trouble and picked up his fifth with six minutes to play in the game.
 
McGaughey picked up the slack, scoring 14 of his game-high 25 points in the second half. He shot 9-for-12 from the floor and collected six rebounds.
 
The Hawks had no answer for UMSL post player Hunter Reine in the second half, giving up 18 points and six rebounds in the final 20 minutes.
 
Senior guard Von Washington III (Kalamazoo, Mich./Kalamazoo Central/Western Michigan) scored 14 points and Tagarelli had 11 points. Hinton scored seven points in 13 minutes off the bench.
 
The story came down to the Tritons' efficiency on offense where they shot 56 percent (27-for-48) from the field. The Hawks connected at a 46 percent (22-for-48) clip in a game played at a much slower pace than they like to play.
 
The Hawks will look to snap their three-game losing skid on Saturday at 3 p.m. when they take on Maryville in St. Louis.
 
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