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84
Albany St. (GA) ASU 0-1,0-0 SIAC
93
Winner Lynn Lynn 2-0,0-0 Sunshine State
Albany St. (GA) ASU
0-1,0-0 SIAC
84
Final
93
Lynn Lynn
2-0,0-0 Sunshine State
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Albany St. (GA) ASU 37 47 84
Lynn Lynn 40 53 93

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Chris Myers

Knights Hold off Charging Golden Rams

BOCA RATON, Fla. – There will be no one questioning the restlessness of the new-look Golden Rams if the season opener was any indication. Host Lynn University needed to hold of the continual charge of Albany State to take away the 93-84 men's basketball win at the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference/Sunshine State Conference Challenge on Friday afternoon.
 
After leading by as many as four points in the first six minutes, the Golden Rams (0-1) fought back to within four points four times in the last 10 minutes, two in the final 4:55, but could not recapture the advantage down the stretch.
 
New Head Coach Rodney Mayes' crew showed it will be a force on the inside as it scrapped the glass for 55 rebounds, 26 on the offensive side, and bested Lynn (2-0) by 12.
 
In his first action as a Golden Ram, Kenneth Brown paced the ASU attack with 22 points on 10 of 16 attempts and a pair of 3-pointers with seven rebounds, five assists and three steals.
 
Three other ASU players hit double figures and two more fired in eight-plus points for the balance. Trevon Taylor dumped in 5 of 6 field goals and both his long-range shots for 14 points to go with six boards and four assists. Cameron Evans added 13 points, eight from the foul line, three helpers and three caroms. Christian Gary was the final Ram in double digits with 10 points on 4 of 7 tries and six rebounds.
 
Off the bench, Jackson Yancey drained two treys for eight points in 10 minutes of action. Despite foul trouble, Shermarion Hardy contributed nine points and four assists. Xavier Sorrell accounted for nearly a quarter of the team's rebounds with 11 to go with three points.
 
ASU did have a tough day from beyond the arc with only 8 of 31 going through the net and 16 of 27 from the charity stripe.
 
Tone Hunter of Lynn paced all scorers with 31 points on 10 of 24 field goals.
 
After the teams started slow offensively, ASU turned a 6-1 deficit into what would be its largest lead of the day with nine-straight tallies. The 9-point Ram run was compliments of back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers from Hardy, Taylor and Evans for a 10-6 lead at 14:19 in the first half.
 
ASU would hold its final advantage less than a minute later, 11-8, on a Sorrell free throw. The Knights put in the next six and saw the Rams get no closer than a point, 14-13, at 11:18. The game's margin was only three, 40-37, in Lynn's favor at half.
 
Hardy made the second half's first bucket, 40-39, and Brown banked one home seconds later for a 43-41 contest.
Lynn swung the momentum to their favor in the middle second half to as many as 10 points, but ASU did not go away. Yancy hit a jumper and followed with a 3-pointer to pull the Rams within four points, 77-73 and 80-76, at 4:55. An Evans free for an 84-80 score was as close as ASU was able to get in the final three minutes.
 
ASU completes its 2-game opening trip with an early tip time on Saturday (Nov. 14). The Rams will face the Tars of Rollins College in an 11 a.m. start time held at Lynn.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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