Men’s Basketball Prevails at Medgar Evers Saturday

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- The Eastern Nazarene College men's basketball team collected a 93-77 victory at Medgar Evers Saturday afternoon.

THE BASICS:
Score: Eastern Nazarene 93, Medgar Evers 77
Records: Lions (7-8) | Cougars (3-10)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• The visitors carried a 10-point advantage into the halftime intermission after outscoring the home side 39-29 in the first frame.
• Eastern Nazarene generated 54 second-half points while Medgar Evers chalked up 48 points in the second stanza as the Lions rolled to their first-ever win over the Cougars.
  

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:

• Levi White (Springfield, Mass.) notched a season-high 23 points and hauled in eight boards.
• Bernie McGuinness (Cumming, Ga.) tallied 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
• Nick Manso (Brick, N.J.) finished with 13 points while JaWaun Moore (Dayton, Ohio) recorded 11 points, six rebounds, and six assists.
• Isaac Padilla (El Paso, Texas) scored a career-best 10 points off the bench.
• Eastern Nazarene finished with a field-goal percentage of 47.9% while connecting on 6-of-26 from behind the arc.
• Medgar Evers shot 48.2% from the floor and 41.2% from three-point range on the day.
• Dante Simmons paced the Cougars with 16 points off the bench while Dimitri Weeks netted 15 points and Jacob Green added 14 points.

                                                                                    
LOOKING AHEAD:

Eastern Nazarene travels to Trinity (Conn.) January 10.