ARLINGTON, Va. - The Dickinson men's basketball team had three players reach double-digits for the second game in a row on Sunday afternoon as they built up a 17-point halftime edge against the University of Lynchburg. Unfortunately, the Hornets would ultimately overcome that margin knocking off the Devils 82-75 in overtime at the Converse Family Fieldhouse on the campus of Marymount University.
- The two sides traded blows early in the game as buckets for Aaron Bailey, Cole Cosby Joey Dopirak, and Brandon Wiercinski had DC trailing by just one 14-13 with five minutes gone.
- Isaiah Edmond and Juan Ruiz picked up layups a minute apart, while Ryan Leskauskas and Cosby delivered from downtown to finish up a 13-3 charge for the Red and White to open up a 26-17 lead with 10:28 gone.
- Tyler Buggs stalled the DC push for a second with a layup, but three points each by Andrew Cerullo and Edmond helped the Devils to open the gap to ten (32-22) inside of the final five minutes.
- Triple for Jayson Easton and John Henderson cut the deficit to 35-28, before Cosby, Edmond, Leskauskas and Ruiz closed the period on a 12-2 run taking a 47-30 edge to the break.Â
- Lynchburg came out of the half on fire as two Easton treys keyed a 13-2 outburst for the Hornets over the first 4:10 ending on a layup for Jonathan Foust (49-43).
- Bailey and Edmond along with Cosby continued to keep the opponents at-bay as the score read 56-48 DC with just over eight minutes remaining.Â
- Following an Elijah Thomas layup, Leskauskas knocked down a foul shot and Wiercinski canned a shot from long-range opening the gap to 60-50 with 12:56 gone.
- Jamarcus Brown, Jake Hart and Easton put together a 10-0 sprint to knot the game at 60-60.Â
- Four of the next six went to the Hornets taking a 64-62 lead with 25-seconds left, but Ruiz was able to cash in a buzzer-beating layup off the feed from Edmond to force OT.Â
- Lynchburg began the extra session with an 8-1 outburst as a tip-in for Brown made it 72-65 with 2:38 to go.
- A Wiercinski triple started a 7-3 run for DC as Edmond supplied the rest of the points cutting the deficit to 75-72.
- The Hornets nabbed seven of the final ten points to end the game at 82-75.
- Points - Leskauskas (18), Cosby (16), Edmond (15)
- Rebounds - Leskauskas (7), Ruiz (6), Bailey and Wiercinski (5)
- Assists - Edmond (8), Wiercinski (3), Dopirak and Ruiz (2)
- Blocks - Ruiz (1)
- Points - Brown and Easton (18), Hart (13)
- Rebounds - Makovec (9), Young (8)
- Assists - Young (8), Hart (5)
- Blocks - Brown, Buggs and Hart (1)
- Dickinson (0-4) will take a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday before returning to action on Wednesday, December 4th at 8pm when they host the Spartans of York College of Pennsylvania inside the Kline Center.
