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PIKE CREEK, Del. – After trailing 4-0 at the outset, the Goldey-Beacom College men's basketball team seized control of the game with a 20-4 run as the Lightning defeated Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference South Division foe University of the Sciences by a comfortable, 78-65 margin on Thurs. night at the Joseph West Jones Center.
Senior forward Terrence Parkes tied for the game-high with 22 points and pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds. Parkes shot 9-of-14 from the field (4-of-7 from three-point range) en-route to his seventh 20-point or more performance of the season.
Senior swingman Sam McDuffie also tallied 22 points in 31 minutes off the bench while adding six rebounds, three blocks and two assists. McDuffie shot an impressive 9-of-10 from the free-throw line.
Azeez Ellegood, the team's senior point guard, shot 5-of-7 from the field (4-of-6 from three-point range) to register 14 points while also tying his own school record of nine assists. Ellegood last recorded nine assists in an 84-64 win at Wilmington on Feb. 4, 2009.
Senior guard Darnell Cephas was the fourth Lightning scorer in double-figures as he posted 10 points on 3-of-5 shooting from the field (2-of-3 from long-range) and 2-of-2 shooting from the stripe.
Adewale Adefemi led three Devils scorers in double-figures with 22 points on 10-of-13 shooting from the field. Myer Messinger and Tyrone Mann-Barnes added 14 and 12, respectively, while Patrick Connaghan led USciences with 10 rebounds.
Adefemi scored the first two baskets of the game on easy layups, but five straight points by Parkes gave the Lightning the lead for good. After Adefemi's second layup, the Lightning held the Devils scoreless for 6:53 while they went on a 15-0 surge, capped by a three-point field goal by Parkes.
USciences remained in the game down just 31-24 when GBC went on an 11-0 surge, fueled by three-point field goals by three different Lightning players (McDuffie, Parkes and Ellegood) to take a commanding 42-24 lead at the break.
Parkes opened the scoring in the second half with a layup to widen the gap to a game-high 20 (44-24), but USciences fought back with a 12-3 run, including 10 straight points by Adefemi to bring the Devils with 47-36.
Leading 49-38, Ellegood found graduate student Rich Flemming (four points, three rebounds) for an emphatic two-handed slam that nearly drew a technical foul for hanging on the rim. Emotions flared for a bit on both benches, but ultimately the officiating crew ruled Flemming hung on the rim to avoid falling down on an opposing player and thus, did not assess what might have been a pivotal technical foul.
The Lightning went on to extend their lead to 66-49 with less than seven minutes remaining when USciences made one final run, scoring 11 of the next 13 points to draw within 68-60 on yet another Adefemi layup. But Ellegood twice knocked down clutch three-point field goals in consecutive possessions to end any comeback threat, and the GBC lead remained between 11 and 13 the rest of the game.
GBC held a 50 to 39-percent shooting advantage and more than doubled up the Devils in three-pointers (13-6). The Lightning also had 18 assists to USciences' 10, and they won the glass, 38-34.
Next up for the Lightning is their first CACC North Division foe, Concordia College. GBC will take on the Clippers in Bronxville, N.Y. on Sat. at 3 p.m.
