NDC Gets Back To Winning Ways Saturday.

The Notre Dame College Falcons followed up easily the worst offensive performance they have had on Thursday night with one of their best of the year on Saturday afternoon. The Falcons went on to a 109-91 win over lowly Urbana to close the regular season. With the win the Falcons improve to 18-10 overall and 12-10 in the Mountain East Conference. The Blue Knights fell to 2-25 and 1-21 in the MEC.
  The Falcons had four players score 20 points or more on Saturday. Tyree Gaiter followed easily his worst offensive output of the season Thursday night, with a triple-double on Saturday. Gaiter poured home 32 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and also had 10 assists- Ja'Sean Lewis posted a second consecutive double-double (26 points and 14 rebounds-) Will Vorhees scored 25- while Kyauta Taylor bounced back from a poor shooting night on Thursday to score 22.  Taylor also added eight rebounds and five assists.  The Falcons shot 58  percent from the floor in the game. They shot at a 55 percent clip (11-20) from the 3-point line. They shot 26 of 44_from the free throw line (59 percent.)  NDC won the rebounding battle 49 to 41 . They had 24 assists and turned the ball over 16 times.
  The Blue Knights had five  players tally double figures on the day.  Carlos Jackson led the way with 26 points- Dimitri Abner scored 16- Jahmere Howze scored 14- while Justin Johnson and Colin Curran each scored 11.  Urbana shot 41 percent (31-75) as a team- they only shot 24 percent (8-33) from the 3-point line- while shooting at a 68 percent clip (21-31) from the free throw line.  The Blue Knights had 16 assists and 13 turnovers.
   The Falcons started the game on a 19-5 run and never looked back.  They led by double digits the entire opening half. At the half NDC would hold a 11 point advantage (48-37.)
  Coming out of the locker room the Falcons would stretch the lead out to 17 after a Lewis 3-pointer.  After that the game was never in doubt. NDC closed out the regular season in sixth place in the MEC. They will host #11 seed Virginia Wise at Murphy Gym Tuesday night. Tip time is set for 7 PM.
MEC Conference Tournament First Round 3/1:
#12 Urbana @ #5 Charleston
#11 UVA-Wise@ #6 Notre Dame College
#10 West Virginia State@ #7 West Virginia Wesleyan
#9 Glenville State @ #8 Shepherd