Men's Basketball Downs Panthers With Second Half Effort

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Amadou Fall (So., Brooklyn, N.Y.) scored a career-high 20 points to lift the Barry University men's basketball team (15-4, 2-3 SSC) to a 71-48 Sunshine State Conference win over the Florida Tech Panthers (7-8, 2-3 SSC) earlier tonight at the Health & Sports Center.

In the first half, Fall ignited a 9-0 opening tip-off run to give Barry the early lead. However, after a strategic timeout from Panther head coach Kris Olson at the 17:45 mark, Florida Tech managed to collect their composure and came back to tie the game at 25 apiece with 4:03 to play in the first period. Fall scored his 10th point at 1:03 to give Barry the go ahead basket at the break.

Leading by three (43-40) with 12:32 remaining in regulation, Barry went on a 23-6 run scoring run to close out the game as the Bucs secured the 71-48 victory on their home court.

Fall led all scorers with 20 points, while Nick Ellingsworth-Perez (Sr., Miami, Fla.) donated 16 to the Bucs' winning efforts. Calix N'Diaye (Sr., Bergen, Norway) posted 15 points, while Melvin Triche (Jr., Syracuse, N.Y.) added 15 points off the bench. Ryan Saunders (So., Orlando, Fla.) matched a career-high 12 assists in the Bucs' win and N'Diaye pulled down a game-high eight rebounds

Desmond Greene (Jr., Rockledge, Fla.) led the Panthers with 14 points, while Titas Vainauskas (Jr., Vilnus, Lithuani) added 13.

The Buccaneers will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 22 in Orlando, Fla. taking on host Rollins College at 4:00 pm.


Newspaper Box Score
Florida Tech vs Barry
01/19/04 5:30 pm at Miami Shores, FL (Health&Sports Center)
At Miami Shores, FL (Health&Sports Center)
BARRY 71, FLORIDA TECH 48
FLORIDA TECH (7-8, 2-4 SSC)
GREENE, Desmond 4-10 2-2 14; VAINAUSKAS, Titas 5-12 2-2 13; MAULTSBY, Ryan
4-10 0-0 9; MURRAY, E.J. 2-8 2-2 7; KRIEG, Kevin 2-2 1-1 5; SUCKRA, Romark
0-0 0-0 0; RICH, Brad 0-2 0-0 0; KELLEY, Jod 0-1 0-0 0; HILL, Matt 0-1 0-0
0. Totals 17-46 7-7 48.
BARRY (15-4, 2-3 SSC)
FALL, Amadou 10-11 0-1 20; PEREZ, Nick 6-13 3-3 16; TRICHE, Melvin 7-7 0-0
15; N'DIAYE, Calix 5-10 2-2 15; SMITH, Clifford 2-6 1-1 5; ALFONSO, Andres
0-2 0-0 0; JAUKOVIC, Luka 0-0 0-0 0; SAUNDERS, Ryan 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 30-50
6-7 71.
Florida Tech.................. 28 20 - 48
Barry......................... 29 42 - 71
3-point goals-Florida Tech 7-20 (GREENE, Desmond 4-8; MURRAY, E.J. 1-2;
MAULTSBY, Ryan 1-5; VAINAUSKAS, Titas 1-4; RICH, Brad 0-1), Barry 5-12
(N'DIAYE, Calix 3-5; TRICHE, Melvin 1-1; PEREZ, Nick 1-1; ALFONSO, Andres
0-1; SAUNDERS, Ryan 0-1; SMITH, Clifford 0-3). Fouled out--Florida
Tech-None, Barry-None. Rebounds-Florida Tech 20 (MAULTSBY, Ryan 6), Barry 29
(N'DIAYE, Calix 8). Assists-Florida Tech 10 (MURRAY, E.J. 3; GREENE, Desmond
3), Barry 20 (SAUNDERS, Ryan 12). Total fouls-Florida Tech 10, Barry 13.