Boxscore

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - A.J. Picard led all scorers with 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the field, but the visiting Goldey-Beacom College men's basketball team fell to Shippensburg, 93-80 at Heiges Field House in non-league play on Tues. night.

The Lightning fell to 1-4 in their final tune-up before the start of Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play which has GBC hosting Holy Family University this Sat. at 3 p.m. Shippensburg, meanwhile, won its second game of the season to improve to 2-5.

GBC, which has been turnover-prone this season, only turned the ball over five times tonight while combining for 17 assists as a team. Graduate student point guard Jordan Brooks led the way with seven dishes while freshman guard Marcus Porter added five in addition to his 19 points.

Junior forward Lawrence Livingston was the third Lightning scorer in double-figures as he came through with 10 points and five rebounds.

As a team, Goldey-Beacom shot 51-percent (32-of-63) from the field, including a red-hot 68-percent (19-of-28) in the second half. Unfortunately, its defense allowed the Red Raiders to shoot an even better 62-percent (37-of-60) from the field for the game, which included a blistering 77-percent (24-of-31) shooting in the second half. Shippensburg also held a 35-27 rebounding edge as the Lightning were without one of their top rebounders, senior forward Tariq Uqdah.

The Raiders put four scorers in double-figures including Will Royal (21 points) and Jordan Stasyszyn (20 points). Stasyszyn had a game-high four three-point field goals.

In the first half, Porter hit one of his two first-half jumpers just afer the 18-minute mark to give the Lightning an early 5-4 lead, but the visitors would not lead again after Shippensburg's Craig Van Scyoc nailed a three-pointer to put the Raiders in front, 7-5.

The Lightning fought back to force four ties, the last of which was a 22-22 deadlock that came after a layup by graduate student Ido Yehuda (eight points, four assists). But after that 22-all tie, Shippensburg began to pull away with a 10-2 run to make the score 32-24. Picard's second trey of the half cut the deficit to five, only to have Stasyszyn answer with a long-range bomb for Shippensburg and up its lead back to eight. Lightning freshman Curtis Hopkins scored the final points of the half as he knocked down a jumper with 34 seconds remaining to shrink the lead to six at intermission.

Nearing the mid-way point of the second half, the Lightning used a 9-4 surge, culminating in a three-point field goal by freshman guard Curtis Hopkins, to pull within one, 59-58. But Van Scyoc rattled off the next seven straight points which resulted in a 12-3 Raider run to push their lead to 71-61.

Trailing 79-67, the Lightning kept fighting led by Brooks, who assisted Picard on a three and later made a pair of free-throws as part of a 5-0 run to cut the Shippensburg lead to seven. Then later with the Raider advantage back up to 10, Porter knocked down a jumper and a pair of free-throws in back-to-back Lightning possessions, and GBC trailed by just six with 3:29 to go. But the Raiders would close out the game on a 9-2 run and win the game by the largest margin of the night, 93-80.