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Sunday, February 15
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Men's Basketball Breaks Road Drought with a 65-57 Victory at Bowling Green
2/15/2009 9:34:04 PM | Men's Basketball
Eagles win first road game of the season
Box score.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team combined some outstanding three-point shooting with some clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch to record a 65-57 Mid-American Conference win over Bowling Green State University here in a rare Sunday, Feb. 15, evening game in Anderson Arena.
The win was the first road victory in 12 attempts this year and also snapped an eight-game losing streak for the Eagles, leaving them with a 4-21 overall record and a 2-9 MAC mark. Bowling Green goes to 14-10 overall and 7-4 in MAC action.
Eastern, which never trailed in the game, connected on a season-best 10-of-19 three-point field goals and also made 20-of-42 field goals (47.6 percent) while holding Bowling Green to just 34 percent from the field (18-of-53).
Senior Zane Gay (Olivet, Mich.-Olivet) led the Eagles with 17 points, connecting on 5-of-8 three-point attempts. Redshirt sophomore Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) turned in his fourth double-double of the year with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Bowling Green opened the game with a zone defense and the Eagles quickly made them pay, racking up a 10-3 lead in the first five minutes. Freshman guard Antonio Green (Inkster, Mich.-Dearborn Heights Robichaud) did the most damage in that stretch with two straight three-point field goals.
Eastern continued to go to the three-point shot, with Gay and L.J. Frazier (Ypsilanti, Mich.-Ypsilanti) both connecting on shots from beyond the arc to give the Eagles an 18-11 lead at the 7:14 mark of the first half.
After posting a 21-11 lead on another three-pointer by Gay at the 6:37 mark the Green and White hit a cold spell and did not score again until Bowdry made two free throws with 1:29 left for a 23-15 advantage.
Bowdry would then add his only field goal of the first half with 47.9 seconds left to send the Eagles into intermission with a 25-15 lead, their first half-time advantage in the last nine games.
The Eagles opened the second half by matching baskets with the Falcons through the first two minutes before Gay hit a three-pointer to give Eastern a 32-20 lead, forcing a BGSU time out at the 17:03 mark.
Bowling Green managed to chip away at the EMU lead over the next eight minutes and used a full-court pressing defense to cut it to four, 45-41, with 6:27 remaining before Gay managed to stop the bleeding with a free throw. Bowdry then scored on a layup followed by another layup from Wendale Farrow (Sacramento, Calif.-Mira Loma-American River J.C.) to boost EMU to a nine-point lead, 50-41, with 4:36 left.
The Falcons came right back on two consecutive threes, from Joe Jakubowski and Brian Moten to cut it to three, 50-47, but Frazier connected on a long three pointer to put Eastern back on top by six, 53-47, with 2:55 left.
Holding a slim, 53-49, lead Bowdry hit a huge threes with 1:50 left to put the Eagles up by seven, 56-49, and the Eagles increased it to what looked like a comfortable 10-point lead, 59-49, with just over a minute left to play, but BG's Nate Miller bombed in two long threes to cut it to four. 59-55.
From that point it was a game of free throws and Tyler Jones (Belleville, Mich.-Belleville) made two, Frazier connected on three-of-four and Bowdry hit one-of-two to enable the Eagles to keep the lead and leave with the eight-point victory.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team combined some outstanding three-point shooting with some clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch to record a 65-57 Mid-American Conference win over Bowling Green State University here in a rare Sunday, Feb. 15, evening game in Anderson Arena.
The win was the first road victory in 12 attempts this year and also snapped an eight-game losing streak for the Eagles, leaving them with a 4-21 overall record and a 2-9 MAC mark. Bowling Green goes to 14-10 overall and 7-4 in MAC action.
Eastern, which never trailed in the game, connected on a season-best 10-of-19 three-point field goals and also made 20-of-42 field goals (47.6 percent) while holding Bowling Green to just 34 percent from the field (18-of-53).
Senior Zane Gay (Olivet, Mich.-Olivet) led the Eagles with 17 points, connecting on 5-of-8 three-point attempts. Redshirt sophomore Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) turned in his fourth double-double of the year with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Bowling Green opened the game with a zone defense and the Eagles quickly made them pay, racking up a 10-3 lead in the first five minutes. Freshman guard Antonio Green (Inkster, Mich.-Dearborn Heights Robichaud) did the most damage in that stretch with two straight three-point field goals.
Eastern continued to go to the three-point shot, with Gay and L.J. Frazier (Ypsilanti, Mich.-Ypsilanti) both connecting on shots from beyond the arc to give the Eagles an 18-11 lead at the 7:14 mark of the first half.
After posting a 21-11 lead on another three-pointer by Gay at the 6:37 mark the Green and White hit a cold spell and did not score again until Bowdry made two free throws with 1:29 left for a 23-15 advantage.
Bowdry would then add his only field goal of the first half with 47.9 seconds left to send the Eagles into intermission with a 25-15 lead, their first half-time advantage in the last nine games.
The Eagles opened the second half by matching baskets with the Falcons through the first two minutes before Gay hit a three-pointer to give Eastern a 32-20 lead, forcing a BGSU time out at the 17:03 mark.
Bowling Green managed to chip away at the EMU lead over the next eight minutes and used a full-court pressing defense to cut it to four, 45-41, with 6:27 remaining before Gay managed to stop the bleeding with a free throw. Bowdry then scored on a layup followed by another layup from Wendale Farrow (Sacramento, Calif.-Mira Loma-American River J.C.) to boost EMU to a nine-point lead, 50-41, with 4:36 left.
The Falcons came right back on two consecutive threes, from Joe Jakubowski and Brian Moten to cut it to three, 50-47, but Frazier connected on a long three pointer to put Eastern back on top by six, 53-47, with 2:55 left.
Holding a slim, 53-49, lead Bowdry hit a huge threes with 1:50 left to put the Eagles up by seven, 56-49, and the Eagles increased it to what looked like a comfortable 10-point lead, 59-49, with just over a minute left to play, but BG's Nate Miller bombed in two long threes to cut it to four. 59-55.
From that point it was a game of free throws and Tyler Jones (Belleville, Mich.-Belleville) made two, Frazier connected on three-of-four and Bowdry hit one-of-two to enable the Eagles to keep the lead and leave with the eight-point victory.
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