Box Score
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-- The Skidmore College men's basketball team punched its playoff ticket with an 82-69 Liberty League win over St. Lawrence University, Friday night at the Williamson Sports Center.
The Thoroughbreds improve to 9-4 in Liberty play and 15-9 overall, while the Saints fall to 7-6 and 11-12.
Skidmore controlled the game early, hitting its first seven shots to grab a quick 19-4 lead. The Thoroughbreds led by as many as 29 in the first half on the way to a 46-19 lead at the break. Skidmore hit 10 of 17 threes (58.8%) in the half, while the Saints struggled from beyond the arc, connecting on only one of eight.
St. Lawrence came out strong in the second, cutting the Thoroughbred lead to seven, 58-51 with 7:14 to play, but Skidmore regrouped to get the lead back to double figures, 66-54 with 4:31 left. The Saints were unable to get any closer down the stretch.
Senior guard
Jeff Altimar (Medford, Mass./Medfield) scored 13 first-half points on his way to a team-high 19 points, going 5-9 from three-point range.
Melvis Langyintuo (Tamale, Ghana/Lawrenceville) added 18 points and seven rebounds on 4-5 shooting from downtown.
Brian Lowry (West Hartford, Conn./St. George's) scored 15 off the bench.
Gerard O'Shea (West Sand Lake, N.Y./Averill Park) scored eight points, going 8-10 from the free throw line in the second half to go along with seven assists.
Ralph Temgoua (Paris, France/Deerfield Acad.) led the Saints with 21 points. Garrett Sharlow (Massena, N.Y./Massena) added 17.
"I want to give credit to the players, I challenged them all week and they responded" Skidmore coach
Joe Burke said. "We did not hide behind the importance of this game. We have big visions for this program and we talked about stepping up an playing well in a big spot and we did that tonight."
"Although we shot the ball extremely well in the first half, I thought our defense was the difference. St Lawrence is a great team and extremely well coached, we knew they would come out fighting in the second half and they certainly did that."
"We are thrilled to be playing in the playoffs next week but we need to keep the momentum going and play well tomorrow against a very talented Clarkson team."
Skidmore will close out the regular season at home Saturday against Clarkson University at 4 p.m. The game is part of the BIG GREEN SCREAM. St. Lawrence is at Union College at 4 p.m.
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Newspaper Box Score
St. Lawrence University vs Skidmore College
2/18/11 8 pm at Williamson Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
At Williamson Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
SKIDMORE COLLEGE 82, ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 69
ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY (11-12,7-6Liberty)
Ralph Temgoua 7-13 4-6 21; Garrett Sharlow 5-14 3-4 17; Al Jones 2-4 4-4 8;
Terry Parham 3-3 0-0 6; Kyle Miller 1-6 2-2 5; Brandon Rivera 2-2 0-2 4; Jon
Goldberg 2-5 0-0 4; Ben Araya 1-4 0-0 2; Nick Meunier 1-1 0-0 2; Janpeter
Brase 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 24-52 13-19 69.
SKIDMORE COLLEGE (15-9, 9-4)
Jeff Altimar 7-11 0-0 19;
Melvis Langyintuo 6-8 2-2 18;
Brian Lowry 5-11 0-0
15;
Gerard O'Shea 0-3 8-10 8;
Sakhile Sithole 2-3 2-2 6;
John Mantas 1-3 3-4
6;
Terron Victoria 1-4 1-1 4;
Kyle Clark 2-3 0-0 4;
Quenten Howard 1-1 0-0
2;
Kevin Dahill 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 25-50 16-19 82.
St. Lawrence University....... 19 50 - 69
Skidmore College.............. 46 36 - 82
3-point goals--St. Lawrence University 8-18 (Garrett Sharlow 4-6; Ralph
Temgoua 3-5; Kyle Miller 1-6; Al Jones 0-1), Skidmore College 16-33 (Jeff
Altimar 5-9;
Brian Lowry 5-11;
Melvis Langyintuo 4-5;
John Mantas 1-3;
Terron Victoria 1-2;
Gerard O'Shea 0-3). Fouled out--St. Lawrence
University-None, Skidmore College-None. Rebounds--St. Lawrence University 30
(Garrett Sharlow 6; Ralph Temgoua 6), Skidmore College 29 (
Melvis Langyintuo
7). Assists--St. Lawrence University 10 (Ralph Temgoua 5), Skidmore College
20 (
Gerard O'Shea 7). Total fouls--St. Lawrence University 19, Skidmore
College 17. Technical fouls--St. Lawrence University-None, Skidmore
College-None. A-570
