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Swint16-4
70
Winner Bloomfield BCBMBB 5-10, 5-4 CACC
68
Goldey-Beacom GBCM 7-11, 5-4 CACC
Winner
Bloomfield BCBMBB
5-10, 5-4 CACC
70
Final
68
Goldey-Beacom GBCM
7-11, 5-4 CACC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Bloomfield BCBMBB 24 46 70
Goldey-Beacom GBCM 33 35 68

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Men’s Basketball Handed Painful 70-68 Loss by Bloomfield



In a contest that went from pedestrian to indescribable, Goldey-Beacom had a layup at the buzzer waived off on a charging call in a nutty 70-68 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference loss to Bloomfield at the Jones Center in Wilmington, DE.
 
The second half, which featured six ties and 11 lead changes, began when Bloomfield scored the first eight points to turn a nine-point deficit into a 33-32 hole.  Juan Brown scored five points in that spurt.
 
Goldey-Beacom then looked like it had the momentum later in the half, using an 8-2 spurt to open a 46-41 lead with 12:33 left.  Senior Algeron Torrence (Syracuse, NY) continued his strong play with five points in that run.
 
The Lightning (7-11, 5-4 CACC) held a 62-58 cushion with 5:37 remaining when junior Elijah Tillman (Garnerville, NY) made a layup.  But back came the Bears (5-10, 5-4), netting five straight points to grab a 63-62 lead with 4:13 that was capped by Rakwan Kelly's layup.
 
With the contest at 66-65 for GBC, Kelly committed a costly turnover that gave the home team a shot to widen its margin.  Corey Taite (Sayreville, NJ), the two-time reigning CACC Rookie of the Week, came through by nailing a huge jumper with 1:24 to play for a three-point margin.
 
Claude Blue made a layup for the Bears for a 68-67 contest and Lightning senior Jarrel Lane (Roselle, NJ) missed a 3-pointer to give the visitors life.  Coming out of a Bloomfield timeout, Nick Davidson missed a jumper and Kelly was there for the offensive rebound before being fouled.  He rattled home the first free throw with 22 seconds left and then hit the second for a 69-68 Bears lead.
 
GBC then called its final timeout near midcourt and set up a play.  But junior Sameen Swint (Sicklerville, NJ) threw a bad pass that Blue intercepted and then was fouled with 5.6 seconds remaining.  Blue made the first, but missed the second for a 70-68 game to set up the finish.
 
The Lightning had to rush it up with no timeouts and got the ball in Taite's hands.  He drove to the goal and hit a layup as time expired, but was whistled for an offensive foul that negated the goal and gave GBC just its second loss in its last six contests.
 
Bloomfield in the second half shot 77 percent (13-of-17) from the floor, 18-for-23 from the line and only committed six turnovers.  Blue netted 15 points in the stanza, going 5-of-5 from the field and 5-for-6 the line, with Davidson netting 12 points.
 
Blue overall finished with 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting and went 7-for-8 from the stripe.  Davidson netted 17 points, going 10-for-13 from the line, and Brown added 11.
 
Tillman closed with 15 points and nine rebounds, Swint netted all 12 of his points in the second half and junior Parris Ridgeway-Higgs (New Castle, DE) added 11 for the Lightning, who shot 54 percent (13-of-24) from the field in the second half.
 
GBCs bench owned a 21-4 scoring edge, but it was not enough in a game that witnessed 14 lead changes and 10 ties.
 
Goldey-Beacom does not play again until January 20 at home vs. Philadelphia University at 8:00 pm.  The women's game between the schools precedes it at 6:00 pm.
 
 
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