McDaniel opens season, Provident Tournament with commanding 84-61 win over Villa Julie
WESTMINSTER, Md. – Five players finished in double figures, including a career-high 23 points from Chad Arrington (Randallstown, Md./Randallstown), to lead McDaniel to an 84-61 victory over Villa Julie in the first round of the Provident Pride of Maryland tournament in non-conference men’s basketball action on Tuesday.
The Centennial Conference’s worst free-throw shooting team last year, the Green Terror (1-0) went 18-for-22 over the final five minutes of the game to preserve what was a 16-point lead and turn it into a 23-point victory for its seventh consecutive season-opening win.
McDaniel finished the game 25-for-36 from the stripe while the Mustangs (0-2) were 21 of 35.
Brett Foelber (Sykesville, Md./Cardinal Gibbons), Ryan Finch (Flemington, N.J,/Hunterdon) and Kevin Henry (Potomac, Md./Bullis School) each contributed 12 points while Richard Barry (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park Memorial) tallied 11, including going 7 of 8 from the charity stripe.
Greg Woody finished with a game-high 24 points to lead Villa Julie.
Knotted at 40 with 14:23 to play, ran of 24 of the next 30 points to take an 18-point advantage nearly 10 minutes later.
The Finch fast-break layup which capped the run was the Green Terror’s final field goal until Brett Bonneville (Ijamsville, Md./Linganore) rebound-and-basket in the final 25 seconds of the game.
Between the two baskets, the two teams went to the line a combined 34 times. Finch and Barry were each 5 of 6 from the stripe during the stretch.
McDaniel opened the game on a 21-7 run to open up a 14-point advantage and held Villa Julie without a field goal for the first 4:13 of the game.
The Mustangs slowly cut into the deficit before Greg Collins knotted the game at 30 with 40 seconds remaining in the first half.
The Green Terror also finished with a commanding 57-26 advantage in rebounding – its largest single-game rebounding total since a program-record 80 in 1961. Arrington capped off a double-double performance with 15 boards.
McDaniel returns to action in the semifinals of the 2007 tournament against Salisbury, who defeated Goucher 71-69 in overtime, at Johns Hopkins. Game time is 6 p.m.
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