Owls Take Advantage Of Tars Frigid Shooting In Exhibition Finale!

Boca Raton, Fla- The Rollins College Tars gave the Florida Atlantic Owls all they could handle Monday night before falling 61-56 at FAU.  The game featured ten ties and 16 lead changes. The Tars only shoot 31 percent from the field in the game while the Owls hit 43 percent of there shots. The Tars only made 4 of 25 shots in the second half.  After 7 of 18 from long distance in the first half the Tars were only 2 of 15 from beyond the arc in the second stanza.  After being down 57-48 late, the Tars cut the deficit to two and had the ball with a minute remaining.  Nick Wolf drove the lane and Tom Klussman obviously thought there was contact and was whistled for a technical foul.  The Tars would not score again the rest of the way and that's how the game ended 61-56.  

  FAU had three players in double figures led by Carderro Njowi with 17 points, Paul Graham III added 16, and Xavier Perkins contributed 12.  Carlos Monroe was the Owls "Windex man" with 16 boards.  The Owls were 20 of 26 at the charity stripe and hit 5 of 19 from deep.  Rollins did force 18 FAU turnovers.

   The Tars were led in scoring for the second straight game by Nick Wolf (15 points), he and Jeremy Sharpe (13 points) the Tars two super Sophomores led the scoring for Rollins.  Kevin Hogan also scored in double digits as he would chip in 11.  The Tars as I mentioned earlier were 31 percent from the field and 9-33 from three.  Rollins must improve its foul shooting as they were only 13-19 from the stripe with all 19 attempts coming in the second half.  The Tars did take good care of the basketball with just 9 turnovers.  Rollins will begin regular season action Monday November 17th at 7 PM when they take on Warner University.  As always you can listen to the call from Jim "The Shooter" Ferro and Robert Seagull on 91.5 FM WPRK Winter Park and nationwide on the Citizens Bank of Tars Sports Network at:

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