BROCKPORT, NY – Brockport pulled away from the contest with a 22-7 second-half run, as the Buffalo State men's basketball team fell to the Golden Eagles by a 76-66 score in the season finale Saturday afternoon.
GAME BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Brockport –76, Buffalo State – 66
LOCATION: Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium – Brockport, N.Y.
RECORDS: Buffalo State (5-20, 4-14 SUNYAC), Brockport (16-7, 11-6)
INSIDE THE BENGAL BOX SCORE
- Philbert Weekes (Brooklyn, NY/Lafayette) finished the season with his eighth consecutive double-double, pacing the Bengals with 16 points and 12 rebounds. He also becomes the first Bengal in over 30 years to average a double-double on the season (15.3 ppg., 13.8 rpg.)
- Aaron Davis (Beacon, NY/Beacon) added 11 points and two steals.
- Marquell Boutwell (Liverpool, NY/Nottingham) also tallied a double-double, his sixth of the year, after scoring 10 points and adding 10 rebounds.
- The Bengals shot 39.2 percent (29-of-74) from the field, and held Brockport to 39.1 percent (27-of-69) shooting from the field.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Bengals held serve for most of the first half, leading by as many as four points (29-25) after a Weekes layup.
- Down 34-30 at the five-minute mark, Brockport went on a 14-4 run to finish the half, as the hosts led 44-38.
- A Weekes dunk began the scoring in the second half, but Brockport stretched its lead to double-digits (52-42).
- A Matt Parkinson (Springfield Gardens, NY/John Bowne) and-one capped a Bengal run as they trailed by just one (54-53) midway through the half.
- That's as close as the Bengals would get, as Brockport stretched its lead with a 22-7 run over a seven-minute span, capped by a Jahidi Wallace 3-pointer.
FOR THE FOES
- Wallace led all scorers with 19 points
- David Grady added 16 points, while Mekhi Beckett added 15.
