Falcons Soar To Sixth Straight!!

The Notre Dame Falcons men's basketball team improved to 6-0 on the season with a 91-45 drubbing of Miami Hamilton (0-10) at Murphy Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. The Falcons started out the game with a 20-0 run in the first 5:30 minutes and never looked back. Notre Dame tallied three players in double figures Saturday. Eric Dummermuth led the way with a double-double (26 points and 10 rebounds) in only 19 minutes. Zach Jacobson who came into the game averaging 2.8 PPG had 14 on 7 of 9 shooting. Nick McCartney rounded out the Notre Dame double digit scorers with 10 points along with 6 assists. All 12 Falcons who played scored. Karim McFarlane, the Falcons starting center did not play (sore knee).

Miami Hamilton had two players in double figures. Nate Seymour and Shawn Morgan had 10 points each for the Harriers. Alex Schlake who was the leading scorer in the first meeting was held to just 8 points on 3 of 13 shooting. Schlake was plagued with foul trouble all afternoon. The Harriers shot 19-57 (33%) from the floor. Hamilton was 2 of 17 (12 %) from behind the three point line. The Harriers were also just 5-10 (50%) from the charity stripe.

Notre Dame scored the first 20 points of the game before a jumper by Derek Brockman would get the Harriers on the board. Nick McCartney would answer with a 3 for the "blue and white" to make it 23-2. Shawn Morgan would hit a runner to cut the Falcons lead to 23-4. Notre Dame would then run off 9 straight points to open up a 32-4 lead. The teams would then trade buckets back and forth until Notre Dame would go on another 11-0 run to make it 53-12. Shawn Morgan would make a lay up to cut it to 53-14 before the Falcons would close out the first half scoring the last five points to take a 58-14 lead into the locker room. The Harriers would score 31 points in the second half to Notre Dame's 33 for the 91-45 outcome.

Notre Dame shot 35 of 61 (57%) while they hit 6-11 from beyond the arc (55%). The Falcons once again struggled at the charity stripe going 15 of 27 (56%). Notre Dame dominated the boards out rebounding the Harriers 49-26. The Falcons had 19 turnovers that cost them 6 points. Hamilton had 14 turnovers that cost them 15 points. Notre Dame had 48 points in the paint as opposed to just 22 for the Harriers. The Falcons will be back in action Wednesday night at 7 PM against the Pioneers from Malone in the first American Mideast game of the season.