2012-13 Goldey-Beacom College Men's Basketball
Game 16: at Holy Family (7-7, 3-2)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 | 3 p.m. | Campus Center (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Opening Tip-Off
Looking to end their three-game losing streak and earn their first win of the 2013 calendar year, the Lightning will make the short trip to Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon for a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference South Division clash against Holy Family University. Opening tip-off between the Lightning and the Tigers is slated for 3 p.m. at the Campus Center. In addition, live stats for the game will be available on the Tigers' official athletics website, athletics.holyfamily.edu.
Updating the Lightning
Now 5-10 overall and 2-5 in the CACC, the Lightning dropped their third straight game on Tuesday night with a tough 69-60 setback in a CACC South Division game against Wilmington. The Lightning led by a 32-26 margin at the intermission, but the Wildcats used a 43-point surge in the second half to sweep their local rivals for the first time in the series. Sophomore guard Marcus Porter, who did not play at Bloomfield on Jan. 5, returned to the lineup and contributed 14 points off the bench while junior guard A.J. Picard added 12 points in a losing effort. Porter and Picard are the Lightning's top two scorers by averaging 15.8 and 13.5 points per game, respectively.
Scouting Holy Family
Currently 7-7 overall and 3-2 in the CACC, the Tigers have won two of their last three contests after an exciting 80-78 overtime victory against Caldwell last Saturday afternoon. Junior guard Ervin Ezell led the Tigers to the victory by scoring a game-high 29 points with eight assists, five rebounds, three steals and two blocked shots. In addition, he forced a turnover in the closing seconds of overtime to secure the victory. Meanwhile, junior guard Alberto Munoz contributed 16 points, including a 5-for-11 effort from three-point range. Ezell is the Tigers' leading scorer with a 17.6 average along with a team-high 68 assists and 52 steals. Meanwhile, Munoz is scoring 14.1 points per game and has a team-high 38 made three-point field goals. In his second season as the Tigers' leader, R.C. Kehoe has guided Holy Family to a 19-21 record. Under Kehoe's leadership last year, the Tigers earned their first CACC Tournament appearance since the 2008-09 season.
Series Business: Holy Family
The Lightning and the Tigers will be meeting for the 25th time in a series that Holy Family leads by a 15-9 margin when the two teams square off on Saturday afternoon. However, the teams have alternated wins in each of the last four meetings with each team winning on its home court twice. Of the Lightning's nine wins in the series, seven of them have been earned on their home floor, including three of the last four triumphs. The teams will meet again in the regular season finale on Feb. 23 at the Jones Center.
A Look at Last Year's Meetings
For the second straight season, the Lightning and the Tigers split a pair of regular season meetings with each team winning on its own home floor. After Goldey-Beacom edged Holy Family by a 72-71 count on Dec. 3, the Tigers got their revenge by posting an 88-78 victory at the Campus Center on Jan. 18. In the first meeting at the Jones Center, junior guard A.J. Picard gave the Lightning a 71-68 lead they did not relinquish when he sank a three-point field goal from NBA range with nine seconds left in regulation, capping a 19-point performance for the Lightning. However, the Tigers got their revenge as all five starters scored in double figures to spark the 10-point win in Philadelphia. The Tigers shot 50.9 per cent from the field in the victory as Khiry Hankins tallied a game-high 30 points by making 7 of 12 field goals, including a 6-for-10 effort from three-point range, while connecting on 10 of 12 free throws.
Points for Porter
After returning to the lineup and scoring a team-high 14 points against Wilmington on Tuesday night, sophomore guard Marcus Porter remains the Lightning's leading scorer with a 15.8 average. The nine-leading scorer in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, Porter has scored at least 10 points in all 14 games he has played this season. In addition, he has scored at least 10 points in 38 of 42 career games, including 12 games with at least 20 points. With 689 career points, the Wilmington, Del. native ranks 14th on the Lightning's all-time scoring list.
Block Party
Entering Saturday afternoon's game against Holy Family, senior forward Lawrence Livingston is tied for the CACC lead with 33 blocks in 14 games this season, a 2.36 average. He ranks 15th in NCAA Division II in blocks per game through games of Jan. 10. Livingston, who is the lone senior on this year's team, ranks second in school history with 96 career blocks and needs three blocks to become the Lightning's all-time leader.
What's Ahead for Goldey-Beacom
The Lightning will return home on Tuesday night to face Chestnut Hill at the Jones Center in the second meeting between the two teams this season. The Griffins earned a 76-62 victory at Sorgenti Arena on Dec. 19.
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