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X
struggled at times, but ultimately came away with a
80-68 win over the visiting UPEI Panthers at the Oland
Centre. The win was an important confidence
builder for a team that had lost 5 or its previous 7
games, including a loss to the Panthers in Charlottetown
last weekend.
The teams stayed close and traded leads throughout the
first half. PEI's offense basically consisted of
Doug McKinney, who scored from both inside and from
beyond the arch. Unfortunately for McKinney and
PEI, he seemed battle illness during the game and played
only 25 minutes. Former All Canadian Sherone
Edwards was not a factor after picking up 2 early fouls
and then two quick fouls midway through the second half
as he battled with rookie Terrance Taylor. X' man
to man defense had no answer for McKinney so coach K
switched things up and move to zone defense and had the
X-Men apply full court pressure (resulting in 21 PEI
turnovers in the contest). These tactics turned
the game in the X-Men's favour and they were able to
take a 5 point lead at the half.
The teams traded buckets early in the second, but the
X-Men began to slowly pull away, led by some timely 3s
by Garry Gallimore and the inside game of Neil
MacDonald. With about 10 to play, X led by 8.
At this point, coach K called a time out - probably to
remind the team that this was the point in the game
where they have struggled recently. The blue and
white have held significant leads in several of the
contests they've lost, only to lose focus, and
ultimately the games. The time out seemed to do
the trick, the X-Men cruised to the win.
X
was led by 6' 10" Neil MacDonald, who in his 5th year is
playing by far the best and most consistent basketball
of his career. MacDonald had yet another double
double (19 point and 13 boards). Garry Gallimore
sparked the X-Men with 18 points (including 3 second
half "3s" to help the X-Men pull away) and 3 steals.
Christian Upshaw effectively ran the offence (8 assists
and only 2 TOs) while scoring 16 points of his own.
Tyler Richards showed strong signs that he is coming out
of the offensive slump he has been in lately with 18
points. Rookie Alberto Rodriguez showed a glimpse
of what we can expect from him over the next few years,
coming into the game and scoring a bucket and collecting
2 offensive rebounds in just 4 minutes of action.
Doug McKinney led PEI with 16 points.
X
plays the Acadia Axemen (coming off an 84-54 drubbing at
the hands of CBU) today at 3PM in a key match up. This
game will be web cast live.
Box Score (Final)
2006-07 AUS Men's Basketball
UPEI Panthers vs StFX X-Men (02/16/07)
VISITORS: UPEI Panthers
TOT-FG 3-PT
REBOUNDS
## Player
FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO
BLK S MIN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
03 Peter Stay.......... 4 9
0 0 3 4 1 8
9 4 11 0 3 0 1
26
04 Jonathan Cooper..... 2 6
0 1 4 6 2 0
2 1 8 0 2 0
0 27
11 Jared Budd.......... 4 6
1 1 4 6 1 2
3 0 13 2 2 0 2
32
12 Brent McLaren....... 0 6
0 4 2 2 1 3
4 2 2 11 5 0 0
29
21 Sherone Edwards..... 2 7
0 0 2 2 1 2
3 4 6 3 2 0
1 17
22 Awale Dualeh........ 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1
2 0 0 0 1 0
0 8
23 Tim Butler.......... 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1
1 1 0 0 0 0
0 6
24 Chad MacDonald...... 4 4
3 3 1 1 0 1
1 3 12 0 1 0 1
21
31 Shakir Chambers..... 0 2
0 2 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 2 0
1 10
32 Doug McKinney....... 7 12
2 3 0 0 3 4
7 3 16 0 3 0 0
25
TM TEAM................
3 3
Totals.............. 23 52 6 14 16 22
13 22 35 19 68 16 21 0 6 201
1st
Half 2nd Half
Game Totals
TOTAL FG%: 12-25 .480 11-27
.407 23-52 .442
3-Pt. FG%: 4-10 .400
2-4 .500 6-14
.429
F Throw %: 4-5 .800
12-17 .706 16-22 .727
Deadball rebounds: 0
HOME TEAM: StFX X-Men
TOT-FG 3-PT
REBOUNDS
## Player
FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO
BLK S MIN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
03 Dave Joyce.......... 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 1
1 5 0 2 2 0
2 13
05 Will Silver......... 0 1
0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1
10 Terrance Taylor..... 1 2
0 0 1 3 0 3
3 1 3 1 0 0
1 12
11 Christian Upshaw.... 6 11
1 2 3 4 2 2
4 1 16 8 2 1 3
36
15 Neil MacDonald...... 8 15
0 0 3 6 4 9 13
2 19 0 0 0 1 36
21 Alberto Rodriguez... 1 2
0 0 0 0 2 0
2 0 2 0 0 0
0 4
23 Tyler Richards...... 8 19
0 2 2 2 2 1
3 1 18 5 2 0 2
35
32 Garry Gallimore..... 6 8
3 4 3 4 2 1
3 3 18 2 0 0 3
38
33 Dwayne Johnson...... 1 4
0 0 2 2 2 0
2 2 4 2 2 0
1 17
42 Remy Simpson........ 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 2
3 1 0 1 0 0
0 8
44 Nathan Goudreau..... 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0+
TM TEAM................
4 2 6
Totals.............. 31 64 4 9
14 21 19 21 40 16 80 21 9
1 13 200
1st
Half 2nd Half
Game Totals
TOTAL FG%: 16-36 .444 15-28
.536 31-64 .484
3-Pt. FG%: 1-4 .250
3-5 .600 4-9
.444
F Throw %: 4-7 .571
10-14 .714 14-21 .667
Deadball rebounds: 0
Date: 02/16/07
Site: Antigonish, NS Attendance: 0
Officials:
Technical fouls: UPEI Panthers-None. StFX X-Men-, TEAM.
Score by Periods 1 2
Total
UPEI Panthers....... 32 36 - 68
StFX X-Men.......... 37 43 - 80
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