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Tigney comes up big; GC men take WPCC title

Wilson, Jones total 42 as Lakers prep for regionals with 18th win

James Ellis presented a big problem in more ways than one.

科比·蒂尼提供了解决方案, with a lot of defensive assistance from his 澳门足球博彩官方网址 teammates.

The 6-foot-4 Tigney gave away 7 inches to the 6-11 Ellis, but Tigney held 海狸 County Community College's rangy center/forward to just 10 points. That was one of the keys as top-seeded 澳门足球博彩官方网址 (18-10) wore down the second-seeded Titans (15-11) to claim an 80-68 victory in Saturday night's Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Division II championship game.

"My mindset was to do whatever the team needed me to do to win,蒂妮说, who scored on a loose-ball offensive rebound to break a 62-62 tie and put the Lakers ahead to stay. "I figured if I locked him [Ellis] down or held him below his average we had a better chance to win."

Tigney stood his ground to pick up an offensive foul from Ellis with 4:59 remaining, 42秒后，埃利斯犯满离场. 于是泰坦们分裂了, scoring only 6 points while picking up 3 technical fouls the rest of the way.

"We changed a couple of principles defensively knowing James was going to play today,GC主教练马特·麦卡洛说, 谁被评为WPCC年度最佳教练. “他真是个难缠的人."

While Tigney sparked the Lakers' defensive efforts, guards Jhaiden Wilson and Darius Jones scored 22 and 20 points, 分别, 领导加勒特的进攻.

"I never have a problem shooting the ball and my team has confidence in me,威尔逊说, 谁也送出了3次助攻. "I knew I had to make the right reads and take the open shots they gave me."

"Jhaiden can get going pretty well," McCullough said of Wilson's offensive explosiveness. "His basketball IQ and understanding of how we want to play have really improved over the course of the season. 他完全接受了我们的计划."

While GC handed the Titans a 79-64 regular-season loss, that game came with Ellis out of the lineup. 比弗县最近人口激增, winning four straight after a 2-point loss to Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference champion Cecil College.

“他们一直打得很好, 在2月份赢得了多项质量大奖,麦卡洛谈到泰坦时说, who reached the finals with a 66-65 semifinal win over Potomac State. “他们是一支非常抢手的球队."

There were 9 first-half lead changes before the Lakers used a 21-7 run to build a 41-30 lead. Lamont Powell (4 assists) had all 10 of his points during the surge, 哪个琼斯(7个篮板?, 3次助攻)外加一个三分球.

海狸, 然而, got back in the game as Devon Hermer scored the final 5 points of the half to pull his team within 41-35. The Titans twice regained the lead in the second half, the last time on a Daniel Felix jumper with 8:18 left that made it 58-57.

Tyler Rodeheaver's layup over Ellis put the Lakers back in front, Ezekiel Edwards(9分), all in the second half) buried a 3-pointer to give GC a 62-58 advantage. The Titans drew even at 62-62 with 5:44 left as Paul Rodolf (team-high 18 points) and Felix (11 points) sandwiched layups around 2 missed Rodeheaver free throws.

比弗县有机会取得领先, but instead Tigney took a charge as Ellis picked up his fourth foul. Tigney scored the go-ahead basket on a put-back on Garrett's next possession, starting what proved to be an 18-6 Laker run to close the game.

After Ellis fouled out, Wilson buried a long 3-pointer. 几件物品之后, Felix fouled Jones and then compounded the error by getting called for a technical foul. Wilson hit the 2 technical free throws and Jones split his charity tosses, 在比赛还剩2分44秒时将领先优势扩大到70比62.

海狸 head coach Tyler Care drew a technical foul with 2:01 remaining, and Felix was called for hanging on the rim after turning a turnover into a slam dunk, 这是他本场比赛的第二次技术犯规.

"We've talked a lot about controlling what we can control and keeping our heads when other teams are facing adversity,麦卡洛说. “从纪律的角度来看，今晚踢得很好. 我觉得我们处理得很好."

Tigney, who finished with 9 points, echoed his coach's remarks.

"We've been on the other side of being hot-headed and getting called for technicals," noted Tigney. "We had to stay level-headed and poised as a team and be mature."

Jones, Powell and Wilson all made the WPCC all-tournament team for GC.

McCullough's Coach-of-the-Year honors come in his first season as a collegiate head coach.

"It's a great honor; all the credit goes to our team and the way they all work hard every single day,麦卡洛说, who was much more excited about the conference title.

"To see it all kind of click in and come together at the end is a great feeling,麦卡洛说. "I couldn't be more happy or excited for the guys."

The fifth-seeded Lakers open the NJCAA Division II Region XX championship tournament Tuesday night at fourth-seeded Montgomery College (13-10). GC recently defeated Montgomery College, 87-81, in the teams' only meeting of the regular season.

The winner of Tuesday's quarterfinal advances to the regional Final Four Friday and Saturday at 澳门足球博彩官方网址.

Notes: Laker guard Terrance Ward had a team-high 5 steals to go along with 3 points and 3 assists. Rodeheaver finished with 5 points and Mekhi Price had 2 points to round out the GC scorers.