Fairmont State Rolls Past NDC Saturday.

The Notre Dame Falcons hung with the national runner up from last season for about the first 18 minutes of the contest before the Fighting Falcons of Fairmont State rolled to a 107-78 victory inside Murphy Gym on Saturday afternoon. With the win Fairmont State improved to 12-4 and 8-2 in the MEC. With the loss NDC fell to 4-12 and 2-8 in the MEC.
  Andrew Emrick led Fairmont State and all scorers with 27 points in this one. Cole VonHandorf added 15- RJ Hutcherson had 13- and- Caleb Davis netted 11. The Fighting Falcons shot 53 percent from the field- 38 percent (12-32) from the 3-point line- and 73 percent (11-15) at the free throw line. They had 18 assists and just five turnovers in this one.
  Kyauta Taylor led NDC with 19 points to go along with eight rebounds- and- four assists. Drew Scarberry scored 15- while Angelo Cugini added 14 points and a team high 14 rebounds. Halil Parks also scored in double figures with 11. NDC shot 41 percent as a team- 35 percent (10-29) from the 3-point line- and- 64 percent (14-22) at the free throw line.  The Falcons won the rebounding battle 45-38.  They had 13 assists and 18 turnovers in this one.
  NDC led 8-7 in the early going. It would be 20-13 in favor of the Fighting Falcons midway thru the opening stanza.  After NDC got it to single digits a couple times Fairmont would got a 3-pointer by D'Ondre Stockman to go up 37-26 with 3:47 in the half. It would briefly be cut to single digits but a strong finish to the half would give Fairmont a 50-35 halftime lead.
  Andrew Emrick led Fairmont with 17 in the opening half- RJ Hutcherson also scored 10 in the opening stanza.  Fairmont shot 57 percent in the opening 20 minutes- 43 percent from the 3-point line- and- 50 percent (2-4) from the free throw line. The Fighting Falcons had 10 assists and just one turnover in the first half.
  NDC was led by 12 points from Drew Scarberry in the first half- while Angelo Cugini led the team with eight rebounds in the half. The Falcons shot 36 percent from the floor- 25 percent (4-16) from the 3-point line- and- 82 percent (9-11) at the free throw line.  NDC won the rebounding battle 25-12 in the first half. They had five assists and 11 turnovers in the half.
  After NDC briefly cut the lead to 13 (53-40) on a Taylor 3-pointer Fairmont went on a 9-0 run to go up 22 (62-40.)  The Fighting Falcons would lead by as many as 30 and cruise to the victory.
  Tim Koenig spoke about his thoughts on the game today:
" Fairmont shot the ball very well today. They beat us several times  in transition and the turnovers really hurt us.  We have to get used to adapting to playing with some of the guys that we don't have. We need to finish possessions with rebounds and defend the paint better. They put a hurting on us today." Koenig said."
  NDC will be back in action Wednesday when they play at Wheeling Jesuit. Tip time is set for 730 PM. As always you can catch all the action on NotreDameFalcons.com