Gannon Flexes Muscle at Lake Erie!

The fourth ranked Gannon University Golden Knights (20-3) proved to be to much for the third straight time against the Lake Erie College Storm (7-18) on Monday night at the Athletics Center Arena in Painesville.  The Golden Knights proved to be to much in the paint for the "green and white" outscoring Lake Erie 34-12.  The fourth ranked Golden Knights rolled to a 76-41 win.  Three players scored in double figures for Gannon.  Pierre Howard led the "gold clad" Knights with 17 points, Kyle Goldcamp tallied a double-double with 15 points and 11 boards.  Joe Lindsey rounded out the double digit scorers for the squad from Erie,Pa scoring 14.  

  The Storm were led by 10 points from Ethan Bradshaw.  He was 2 of 11 from the floor and 5 of 8 at the charity stripe.  Evan Garret tallied 7 points for the Storm. Leading scorers Derrick Thornton and Rick Leasure were held well below there season averages scoring 7, and 6 points respectively.  Thornton came in averaging 16.5 points a game while Leasure averages 13.7. They were virtually shut down by the stifling defense of the Golden Knights.  Leasure was 2 of 12 from the floor while Thornton only attempted six shots making 3.  Lake Erie did have a season high total in block shots with seven.  Derrick Thornton and Matt Grendel swatted three shots each while Ethan Bradshaw also blocked a shot.  

   The Storm starting out the game with John Dickinson draining a three from the top of the key  to take a 3-0 lead.  Gannon would then go an a 19-0 run over the next ten minutes and never look back.  Gannon's biggest lead of the game would be 35 on two different occasions.  

    Gannon would shoot 45 percent from the field while the Storm would shoot a frigid 26.1 percent including a chilly 21 percent in the first half.  Gannon made 8 of 21 from long distance while Lake Erie was 4 for 20 from "beyond the arc".  The Golden Knights would make good on 6 of 7 from the charity stripe while the Storm went 13 of 19.  Gannon owned the glass holding a 49-26 rebounding advantage which resulted in 23 more shot attempts for the Golden Knights.  The Storm committed 20 turnovers while Gannon "coughed it up" 16 times.  The 20 turnovers by the Storm cost them 29 points.  Gannon had 16 steals as opposed to six for the Storm. Lake Erie will be back in action Saturday.  It will be fan appreciation day as well as Senior day for the five seniors at Lake Erie.  The woman will start at 2 PM while the men follow at 4. You can catch all the action on WELW 1330 AM.