Falcons Return Home For Home Opener Saturday

The Notre Dame Falcons (1-2) will host the Concord Mountain Lions (2-1) in the home opener for NDC on Saturday. Tip time is set for 4 PM at Murphy Gym. It will also be the Mountain East Conference opener for both teams.
  NDC is coming off a 1-2 road trip in which all three games were decided by 10 points or less. In the opener last Friday NDC was a 107-99 loser in double overtime to Millersville. In game two it was a 99-95 overtime win over St.Augustine's for the Falcons. In the most recent outing for the Falcons it was a 79-76 loss to Roberts Wesleyan in Rochester,New York.
  In the first game versus Millersville Kyauta Taylor paced NDC with 37 points- Will Vorhees came off the bench to score 15- and- Angelo Cugini recorded a double-double (10 points and 11 rebounds) in his Falcons debut. NDC shot 46 percent as a team in the loss last Friday.
 The following day NDC earned their first win of the season when they defeated St.Augustine's 99-95 in overtime.  Drew Scarberry paced the Falcons with 28 points, as he buried seven 3-pointer's in the game.  Taylor was solid again, scoring 25 points and grabbing eight rebounds.  NDC shot 49 percent from the field and 88 percent from the line in that victory.
 In the most recent contest NDC played they held a 41-30 lead over Roberts Wesleyan on Wednesday night, but could not hang on and fell 79-76 in Rochester.
 Taylor led the way with 19 points, but went just 5-16 from the floor in this one. Scarberry scored 12- and- Cugini added 11 in the loss. Ja'Sean Lewis had six points- seven assists- and- broke the school record with 25 rebounds ,eclipsing the previous mark set by Geovante Rose of 21 set back in 2014. The Falcons shot 40 percent as a team both from the floor and the 3-point line.  They shot just 53 percent (10-19) from the free throw line as well. They won the rebounding battle 50-46. They had 18 assists and 15 turnovers as a team.

  The Redhawks (3-0) were led by 21 points from Peyton McLaurin- Justin Vaughan added 14- Michael Bush scored 12- and- Jean Touissant tallied 10.  They shot 38 percent from the field and 31 percent from the 3-point line. The Redhawks shot 60 percent (12-20) from the free throw line.  They had 14 assists and 10 turnovers.
  Concord was a 82-75 winner over Fayetville State to start the season. In the second game they were a 89-77 winer over Winston-Salem State.  In the most recent contest they were a 87-83 loser to Bluefield State.
  Tommy Bolte is off to a sizzling start to this season for the Mountain Lions. Bolte is averaging 37.3 points per game for the first three contests- while BJ Hamlet is the only other Mountain Lion in double figures averaging 11.3 points per game.  Bolte leads the team in assists at nearly seven per night- while- Trey Brisco leads the team in rebounding at nearly seven per game.
  The last meeting between the two clubs happened on February 18th of a year ago. The Mountain Lions were a 95-87 winner in that game.  That was after the Falcons were a 95-87 winner over the Mountain Lions in the first meeting.Each team winning on the others home floor.