ADA, Okla. – Building on their massive street win on Thursday night time at Southeastern Oklahoma, the Arkansas Tech males’s basketball staff made it a particularly profitable trip to the Sooner State as they beat East Central on their residence courtroom by a rating of 68-60 on Saturday afternoon.
The win is the Wonder Boys’ (7-5, 5-1 GAC) seventh of their final eight video games, and can also be their fourth away from Tucker Coliseum. The mark for street wins is tied for essentially the most for the reason that 2018-19 season and is greater than the earlier three season mixed as properly.
Tech can also be now out to a 5-1 begin in Great American Conference play, marking their finest six-game begin in GAC play all-time, and the most effective general six-game begin in convention motion since 2010-11.
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Fueling their win towards the Tigers (7-5, 2-4 GAC) was a balanced scoring effort with 4 gamers in double figures and one other collective hard-nosed defensive effort by the Wonder Boys.
Andre Leavell led the best way in scoring for the Wonder Boys with 19 factors on 6-of-13 capturing general. He was additionally 1-of-2 from lengthy vary and 6-of-8 from the free throw line. Leavell crammed out the remainder of his stat sheet with 4 rebounds and 5 assists as he seems to be a triple-double ready to occur.
Taelon Peter was subsequent in scoring with 15 factors. Peter added seven rebounds, two steals and one help to his ledger. D’Rell Roberts was an element off the bench with 12 factors. All of his three discipline targets makes have been from three-point vary. Niko Gosnell rounded out double-figure scoring with 11 factors. He was an ideal 4-of-4 from the ground and 3-of-4 from the charity stripe.
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Entering the weekend, East Central averaged 76.1 pgg on offense and shot simply over 50% as a staff. In Saturday’s recreation towards Tech, nonetheless, the Wonder Boys restricted the Tigers to 60 factors on simply over 40% capturing general.
Perhaps essentially the most vital defensive stat that performed out within the recreation was the truth that the Wonder Boys had 25 defensive rebounds and solely allowed ECU to document two offensive rebounds, which resulted in zero second-chance factors for the Tigers.
On the opposite finish, Tech was in a position to haul in seven offensive boards and switch these into 13 second-chance factors. It additionally helped the Wonder Boys out-rebound ECU by 9 (33-23).
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Golden Suns 87, East Central 59
The Golden Suns (7-3, 5-1) dominated East Central to select up their third straight win and stay unbeaten on the street towards Great American Conference opponents.
Jalei Oglesby led the cost for the Golden Suns as she put up a powerful double-double on the afternoon towards the Tigers with 22 factors and 15 rebounds.
Most importantly about Oglesby afternoon was her effectivity capturing the ball. For the sport, Oglesby shot 60% (6-of-10) from discipline purpose vary and drastically boosted the Golden Suns effectiveness from the free throw line sinking an ideal 10-of-10 photographs from the charity stripe.
Defensively, the Golden Suns as soon as once more commanded their opponent holding them to only a 26.2% (17-of-65) clip from discipline purpose vary and 26.1% (6-of-23) from beyond-the-arc. The third quarter specifically was particularly spectacular on the defensive finish because the Golden Suns solely allowed one made shot and no three-pointers for the Tigers. They held East Central to simply single digits in scoring in each the primary and third quarters of play.
The Golden Suns additionally did an outstanding job on the rebounding battle grabbing 50 complete boards to East Central’s 29. In phrases of defensive rebounding, Arkansas Tech grabbed complete management with 40 complete defensive rebounds, whereas the Tigers managed to seize simply 18 of them. With East Central’s struggles to gather a defensive board, the Golden Suns have been in a position to convert 17 complete second probability factors on the afternoon to make the most of their opponent on the boards.
The Golden Suns had 5 gamers hit double figures in scoring. Kaley Shipman, Hayleigh Wyrick and ClaraGrace Prater every scored 12 factors. Alex Hill added 10.
