STANDISH, ME - The Saint Joseph's College Men's Basketball team hosted in-state rival Husson College on Wednesday night and lost, 81-68. The Monks were led offensively by JR Elbie Murphy (Loudonville, NY) who scored a season high 20 points and grabbed 9 boards in the game. The Eagles were paced by SR Sheraud Lee (Bridgeport, CT) with 17 points. With the game in the books the Monks are now 1-4 on the year. Husson College improves to 3-1 overall.

The game was a back and forth affair in the early going as neither team held a lead of more than 3 points until Husson's Sheraud Lee sank two free throws and a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions to extend the Eagles' lead to five, 16-11, ten minutes into the first half. FY Chris Davis (New York, NY) cut Husson's lead back down 2 points when he drained a 3-pointer with 7 minutes remaining in the half.

From this point in the game both teams would endure hot and cold streaks, scoring points in bunches when hot and not being able to stop the opponent defensively when cold.

The Monks gained the lead, 24-22, three minutes later when Elbie Murphy scored on a put-back off his own missed shot to cap an 8-4 SJC run. The Eagles countered the Monks run with one of their own, outscoring the St. Joe's men 12-2 in the final 3:55 of the first half, thus taking a 34-26 lead into halftime.

St. Joe's fought back to within one point of the Eagles when FY Eric Friend (Portland, ME) hit a clutch 3-pointer eight minutes into the second half to make the score 45-44, Husson. The Eagles battled back with another impressive run, outscoring the Monks by a 13-3 margin in a four minute span and extending their lead to 58-47 with 8 minutes left to play.

SJC would come within striking distance again when SO Rashon Jones (Bridgeport, CT) hit a jumper to make the score 65-62 Husson with 3:15 remaining. This is as close as the Monks would come, however, as the Eagles pulled away with yet another run, outscoring St. Joe's 16-6 in the final three minutes of the contest.

Husson shot 21-25 from the charity stripe while the Monks went only 11 for 21 on their free throw attempts. St. Joe's made 3 of 11 three-point attempts, Husson connected on 10 of 31 three-point bids. Both teams shot just over 41% from the floor.

All five Eagles starters reached double digits in point totals as Sheraud Lee (17 pts), Brock Bradford (16 pts), Matt McKenzie (11 pts), Blaine Meehan (11 pts) and Scott Kissinger (10 pts) all contributed in the Husson victory. Six different Eagles players made 3-pointers in the game.

For St. Joe's, SO Ray Eatmon (Huntington, NY) grabbed 9 boards and scored 16 points and FY Chris Davis (New York, NY) scored 9 points and added 5 rebounds in the game. SO Rashon Jones (Bridgeport, CT) provided a spark off the bench, shooting 3-5 from the floor for 7 points.

Saint Joseph's College will host GNAC foe Daniel Webster on Saturday, 12/8 @ 3:00 PM.


Husson College vs St. Joseph's College (Me.)
12/02/07 7:00 PM at Standish, Maine

HUSSON COLLEGE 81, ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE (ME.) 68

HUSSON COLLEGE (3-1)
Sheruad Lee 5-18 6-7 17; Brock Bradford 3-9 7-8 16; Blaine Meehan 3-7 3-4
11; Matt MacKenzie 5-6 1-2 11; Scott Kissinger 3-7 2-2 10; Chris Coffin 2-4
2-2 7; Nick Henry 2-2 0-0 5; Nick Perras 2-6 0-0 4; Joe Kane 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 25-60 21-25 81.

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE (ME.) (1-4)
Elbie Murphy 7-17 6-9 20; Raymond Eatmon 7-14 2-4 16; Chris Davis 3-6 2-4 9;
Scot Vachon 4-9 0-0 8; Rashon Jones 3-5 1-4 7; Eric Friend 2-4 0-0 5; R.J.
Mattison 1-6 0-0 3; Tyler Kelley 0-1 0-0 0; Mark Sirois 0-0 0-0 0; Dwight
Franklin 0-0 0-0 0; Jay Tutwiler 0-1 0-0 0; Hi Jackson 0-2 0-0 0; Alonso
Davis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-65 11-21 68.

Husson College................ 34 47 - 81
St. Joseph's College (Me.).... 26 42 - 68

3-point goals-Husson College 10-31 (Brock Bradford 3-9; Scott Kissinger 2-4;
Blaine Meehan 2-3; Chris Coffin 1-2; Sheruad Lee 1-9; Nick Henry 1-1; Joe
Kane 0-1; Nick Perras 0-2), St. Joseph's College (Me.) 3-11 (Chris Davis
1-2; Eric Friend 1-2; R.J. Mattison 1-3; Tyler Kelley 0-1; Hi Jackson 0-1;
Raymond Eatmon 0-1; Elbie Murphy 0-1).

Fouled out--Husson College-None, St. Joseph's College (Me.)-Scot Vachon.

Rebounds-Husson College 40 (Nick Perras 6), St. Joseph's College (Me.) 38 (Elbie Murphy 9).

Assists-Husson College
14 (Brock Bradford 8), St. Joseph's College (Me.) 14 (Elbie Murphy 3).

Total fouls-Husson College 15, St. Joseph's College (Me.) 20. A-300