Box Score
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 12, 2011) —Lincoln's Denzel Mooney (Baltimore, Md./Western School of Technology) and Johnson C. Smith's Trevin Parks matched baskets Wednesday night at the Grady Cole Center as two of the CIAA elite scorers battled for supremacy.
Both finished with 29 points, but JCSU (8-4, 4-0 CIAA) held off Lincoln (1-9, 0-3 CIAA) by a margin of 69-61.
The game marked Mooney's fifth straight with at least 20 points, doing so behind 4-of-6 shooting from behind the 3-point arc. The four treys tied a career high. Joining Mooney in double figures was Terron Jones (Bronx. NY/Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS) with 10 points. The sophomore combo guard's six boards led LU.
Mooney's prodigious night and Terron Jones (Bronx. NY/Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS)' complementary performance could not match the Golden Bulls, who led wire-to-wire. The main reason for that was dominance inside. JCSU's 43-28 rebounding advantage on the glass and 26-14 in points in the paint.
JCSU opened quickly, opening a double-digit lead at 18:49 after Parks knocked down two free throws. Quinton Hector (Schertz, Texas/Samuel Clemens HS)'s three steals were the catalyst. A sophomore point guard, he followed Saturday's career-high 14 points against Livingstone College eight on Wednesday.
None of his baskets was bigger than his 3-pointer in the final minute of the first half to cut Lincoln's deficit to 42-26 at the intermission, because it provided some momentum heading into the second half, which Mooney began with with a trey and two free throws.
At 16:49, Richard Glover (Baltimore, Md./Havre De Grace HS)'s lay-in got Lincoln within 42-39, but JCSU's James Otley hit a 3-pointer on the other end of the floor to re-estblish control and begin a spurt to push it up to eight. A Hector basket got LU back within three midway through the half, but Lincoln just couldn't get the key basket to get any closer.
Up Next
There is little time to recover from the physical contest. Thursday, the Lions encounter Fayetteville State (5-6, 1-2 CIAA) at 7:30 p.m. from the Felton J. Capel Arena.
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