JANUARY 11, 2009
KING'S MEN'S BASKETBALL AT PENN STATE HAZLETON
HAZLETON – The King's College men's basketball team prepped for its return to Freedom Conferenc play with a 75-50 victory over host Penn State Hazleton Monday in Hazleton. With the win King's improved to 6-8 while PSU fell to 2-8.
The started out evenly as the teams engaged in a 11-11 tie with 13:56 left in the first half. But a jumper by Kyle Stackhouse, a bucket down low from Kevin Conroy and a three-pointer from Matt Fiorino capped a 7-0 Monarch run as King's took a 18-11 lead with 10:50 on the clock.
With King's holding a 20-15, the Monarchs blew the game open with a 17-0 run, capped by back-to-back inside baskets from Conroy to give the Monarchs a 37-15 lead with 3:12 left in the half. The Monarchs settled for a 40-22 half-time lead when Penn State's Keiser Zamora canned a three-pointer with 0:13 to play. Conroy led the Monarchs with 12 points at the break
In the second half, the Monarchs opened their biggest lead of the game at 26 points when a Kyle Stackhouse jumper with 14:27 to go lifted King's to a 51-25 lead. The Lions would draw no closer than 14 points the rest of the way as Monarch coach J.P. Andrejko was able to substitute liberally.
Wagner, Conroy, and Jim Schule led King's with 12 points each while Kyle Stackhouse and Mike McCready added nine and eight points respectively. Reills Recihwein led Penn State Hazleton with 19 points.
King's will travel to Doylestown on Wednesday to face Delaware Valley College at 8:00 p.m.
KING'S COLLEGE 75, PENN STATE HAZLETON 50
KING'S COLLEGE (6-8)
Kevin Conroy 6-11 0-2 12; Jim Schule 6-11 0-0 12; Mike Wagner 4-10 3-6 12;
Kyle Stackhouse 4-8 1-1 9; Mike McCready 4-6 0-0 8; Eric Brown 2-4 0-0 5;
Nick Reisig 1-4 2-2 5; Bill Joyce 2-2 0-0 5; Tim Sanderson 2-2 0-0 4; Matt
Fiorino 1-4 0-0 3; Ian Oakley 0-0 0-0 0; Jonathan Gilmore 0-1 0-0 0; Wil
Acevedo 0-0 0-0 0; Adam Brasky 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 32-65 6-11 75.
PENN STATE HAZLETON (2-8)
Reills Reichwein 6-15 4-5 19; Keiser Zamora 4-13 2-5 13; Brandon Boekel 5-7
0-0 10; Phil LaRusso 3-7 0-0 6; Ian Simmons 1-5 0-0 2; Rachid Maiga 0-1 0-2
0; Robert Weldon 0-0 0-0 0; Joey Caschera 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-48 6-12 50.
King's College..................... 40 35 - 75
Penn State Hazleton........... 22 28 - 50
3-point goals--King's College 5-17 (Matt Fiorino 1-3; Mike Wagner 1-7; Bill
Joyce 1-1; Nick Reisig 1-4; Eric Brown 1-1; Adam Brasky 0-1), Penn State
Hazleton 6-16 (Reills Reichwein 3-5; Keiser Zamora 3-9; Phil LaRusso 0-1;
Rachid Maiga 0-1). Fouled out--King's College-None, Penn State
Hazleton-None. Rebounds--King's College 38 (Kevin Conroy 9), Penn State
Hazleton 29 (Keiser Zamora 8). Assists--King's College 23 (Kyle Stackhouse
4; Wil Acevedo 4; Adam Brasky 4; Mike Wagner 4), Penn State Hazleton 6
(Brandon Boekel 4). Total fouls--King's College 12, Penn State Hazleton 12.
Technical fouls--King's College-None, Penn State Hazleton-TEAM. A-100
