Gaiters Topped by Cardinals

Saturday at Plattsburgh State

BU       27    37  -  64
PSU     33    34  -  67

Another tough loss on Saturday. We traveled down to Plattsburgh, NY  and faced a very athletic & physical team who reached the NCAA D3 Sweet Sixteen last season. Great environment to play in as it was similar to our gym crowd wise. We got better playing the game, just a bit disheartening losing that game. Our psyche is certainly being tested right now.

After our good start PSU got rolling and erased our 8 point lead. They went on a run that carried them to a 6 point halftime lead. The 2nd half was tight for the first few minutes until PSU went on another run climbing into a 14 point lead. Instead of crumbling, we fought back and closed their lead to 1 with a minute to go. We fouled and they converted their free throws to go up at the end. We had a couple of great looks at the hoop to tie the game, but they did not fall.

Jona  led us with 15 points while Majid and PK each added 10 points. PK  had a game high 11 rebounds and Majid continues to do a good job on the glass as he collected 9 rebounds.

Jona Bermillo, 15 pts on Saturday

Saturday we open up against a very deep McGill team, they have a whopping 20 legitimate CIS players on their roster and seem to have gotten contributions from most of them at some point during pre-season. It will be a difficult test as we are on the road playing the team that is the odds on favourite to win our league. Not sure how many players we will have dressed on Saturday, but our roster will be smaller (both in height & numbers) than we would like. Regardless, we will have to figure out how to make our own luck as we are playing the games that truly count now!

Game time is 8 pm this Saturday at McGill.
Rod