Date: Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne, Sports Information Director
(804) 752-7387, christopherkilcoyne@rmc.edu
R-MC Men’s Basketball Tops Division I George Mason 73-72 in Exhibition Action
FAIRFAX, VA – Justin Short led three Randolph-Macon players in double-figures with 15 points as he led the Yellow Jackets to a 73-72 exhibition win over Division I and defending CAA Champion George Mason University.
The Jackets shot 56 percent and got eight points from both Short and Kevin Voelkel in the first-half to head to the locker room up 36-33.
Back-to-back three pointers by Jordan Brown and Boris Varela extended the Jackets lead to 42-33 two minutes into the second-stanza. Brown would give Randolph-Macon a double-figure advantage with 15:29 left to go in the game when he convert a lay up to make the score 49-39.
George Mason would go on a 17-7 run, tying the game on a running lay-up by Andre Cornelius and taking the lead 57-56 when John Vaughan made one-of-two from the charity stripe with 8:42 to play in the game.
A lay-up by Danny Jones put R-MC up 58-57 and a three-pointer by Thomas Scheeler extended the Jackets advantage to 66-59 with just under six minutes to play
GMU went on a 12-3 run over the next five plus minutes, cutting the R-MC advantage to 71-69 with 46 seconds left in the contest.
After a defensive stop by the Patriots, GMU had a chance to tie the game but a Cornelius floater in the lane fell short and was rebounded by R-MC’s Andre Hunter who was fouled and made both ends of a one-and-one to put the Jackets up 73-69.
George Mason made a long three pointer with a half second remaining but R-MC was able to get the ball in bounds and time expired.
Randolph-Macon will open up regular season play on November 15th at the University of Richmond. Game time is set for 8:00 p.m.
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