From Emory University Athletics
Junior Will Trawick scored a
career-high 27 points to lead four double-figure scorers as the No.
9-ranked Emory men's basketball team battled to a win over LaGrange
College on Saturday. The Eagles raised their record to 3-0
following an 82-65 decision over the Panthers who slipped to
3-3.
Trawick wound up the contest hitting 10-of-13 from the floor
including a personal-best seven three-point field goals in eight
opportunities that tied for the third-highest individual game total
in program history. Senior Alex
Foster totaled 15 points in the triumph, 12 of which
came on the strength of four three pointers, and contributed nine
rebounds. Senior Michael Florin and
junior Davis Rao rounded out the squad's
double-digit scorers with 11 and 10 points,
respectively.
Emory ended the game shooting 47.4 percent from the floor
(31-of-65) compared to LaGrange's effort of 30.9 percent, the third
time in as many outings that the opposition had shot less than 40
percent from the field. The Eagles made use of the trey ball in
posting the win, draining 15 (tying the third-highest team total in
history)-of-27, good for a 55.6 percent clip that tied the
10th-highest game total in program history.
Led by senior Josh Schattie's career-high tying
11 rebounds, Emory finished with a 43-41 edge on the
glass.
A three-pointer by Trawick gave Emory a 65-50 lead with 10:45
left in the game before the Panthers responded with a 13-2 charge,
capped by a triple by Mark Wagner, that sliced the Eagles'
advantage to four points with 7:16 remaining. However, Emory
stalled the LaGrange comeback bid, holding the Panthers scoreless
for over five and one-half minutes while scoring 12 unanswered
points, highlighted by a Trawick three pointer and back-to-back
buckets by Florin, in claiming a 79-63 lead with 54 ticks on the
clock left.
With Trawick and Foster scoring 13 and nine points,
respectively, Emory staked itself to a 48-33 lead going into
halftime. The Eagles blitzed the Panthers by raining down 10 three
pointers in 15 attempts while ending the stanza converting 54.3
percent from the field (19-of-35). The Panthers were successful on
just 28.9 percent of their field goal tries (11-of-38) during the
opening stanza. A 14-2 spurt, which saw Rao hit a pair of
triples and Trawick and Foster both one from beyond the arc, pushed
Emory to a 22-6 lead just six minutes into the game. The Panthers
did slice its gap to 10 points, but the Eagles countered with a 9-2
run, culminated with a three pointer by Schattie, that extended
their bulge to 31-14 with 8:54 remaining in the half. Emory did
lead by as many as 21 points before LC crept to within 11 with 1:19
left. Emory closed out the half with baskets by the sophomore duo
of Jonathan Terry and Austin
DaGue.