Men's Basketball

January 25, 2008

SCAC Weekend Opens With Loss at Oglethorpe

San Antonio - Trinity's men's basketball team opened up a weekend of play in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference with a 65-70 loss at Oglethorpe University on Friday night.

Trinity (12-4, 5-2) led 34-31 at the half, but Oglethorpe was able to erase that deficit and pull off the victory with 44.2% shooting for the game.

The Tigers opened up a 14-6 lead in the first few minutes of the game and never trailed in the first half of play.  Oglethorpe took its first lead of the game with 14:14 to play, and the two teams went back and forth for nearly 10 minutes. 

After Trinity took a 60-59 lead with 5:28 remaining, Oglethorpe scored six unanswered points to go up by five with under three minutes left.  A three-point play cut the lead to two, and after the home team hit 1-2 at the foul line, Trinity hit another basket to make it a 65-66 game with just 38 seconds left.  Oglethorpe made 4-4 from the line from that point on, and Trinity was unable to score again.

B.J. Moon led Trinity with 17 points, hitting 6-16 from the field and handing out three assists.  Charles Houston finished with a solid 16 points and 10 rebounds, hitting 6-10 shots for the Tigers.

Patrick Robinson and Nick Polidoroff scored eight points each.

Joe Kennedy led all scorers with 19 points for Oglethorpe, while Todd Ward added 13 points.  Ahmad Kareem Shaheed chipped in with 12 points and seven rebounds.

Trinity will face University of the South-Sewanee tomorrow night, finishing off the SCAC weekend.