Beaver Bested on Road to Schuylkill 107-90

Schuylkill Haven, PA - The Lions of Penn State Beaver hit the road again today to take on Penn State Schuylkill in day 2 of their annual cross-over event for the PSUAC. Though the team was unsuccessful in brining home a win today they did finish the weekend 1-1. Finishing the game with a score of 107-90 the team had a hard battle in this conference match-up. With a 54-54 tie game going into the half things were looking good for Beaver until a they hit a low scoring run in the second half. Beaver was lead offensively by First-year, Ronyell Coston (Eastern Shre, VA) who scored 21 point this game. Beaver's defensive game was lead by Fourth-year, Matt Brown (Upland, CA) who had 10 rebounds and 2 steals. Starting the scoring for Beaver this game was, Second-year, Jermaine Knaff (Quincy, IL) who scored off a jump shot. Just under the 16 minute mark in the first half, Beaver was down 11-4, and made a great offensive scoring run through the 11:34 mark where they tied the game up 19-19 with many people scoring and Coston tying it up. Beaver took their first lead of the game at 9:51 when Third-year, Trevor Franklin (Stafford, VA) made a jump shot, making the score 26-25.Beaver quickly went up by 4 almost a minute later with a 3-point shot being made by Allen Cole (King of Prussia, PA) making the score 31-27. It continued to be a back and fourth battle this first half which was finished by Coston scoring off a free-throw at 0:53 bringing the socre fo 54-48 and leaving the remaining scoring to Schuylkill to tie it up. Coming out of the locker room, Beaver quickly went down by 8 not scoring until almost 3 minutes in with a Cole 3-pointer. Beaver was trying to keep this game close being down between 5 and 7 more the majority of the half and could have kept it that way if they were able to score a it more regularly instead of in short team bursts. Coston closed out this half as well with a jump shot brining the team to their 90 points.

First-year, Ronyell Coston (Easter Shore, VA) played a strong game scoring 21 points, with 1 rebound, 1 assist and 2 steals.Tying for second highest scorer for Beaver today was Second-year Alex Green (Chicago, IL) who scored 17 points, had 1 rebound, 2 assists, and 3 steals; along with Third-year, Trevor Franklin (Stafford, VA) who had 17 points, 5 rebounds, and 1 assist. Fourth-year Matt Brown (Upland, CA) led the team with rebounds pulling down 10 today and scored 13 as well, which is good for his first double-double of the season. Brown also had 3 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks. Third-year, Jalen Vaughn (Beaver Falls, PA) had 10 points this game while First-year, Allen Cole (King of Prussia, PA) had 8 points. Beaver had 23 rebounds, 13 assists, 13 steals, and 2 blocks this game.

Penn State Beaver Men's Basketball is now 3-7 overall while being 2-2 in conference. The Men's Basketball team will take the court again this Friday, Decemebr 13th at 8pm to take on PSUAC competition, Penn State Scranton in the Beaver Fieldhouse. Make sure to come out and support Penn State Beaver Men's Basketball all season long or catch it all on the Rise and Roar Network!