Scarberry Has Big Night In Falcons Loss.

Drew Scarberry knocked down eight 3-pointer's and scored a season high 28 points to go along with nine rebounds- but it was not enough as the hot shooting #16 Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals came away with a 105-86 win at the McDonough Center on Wednesday night. With the win Wheeling improved to 14-2 and 10-1 in the MEC. While NDC fell to 4-13 and 2-9 in the MEC with the loss.
Despite the loss Coach Tim Koenig remains positive:
" We have a damn good group of guys. We are going to figure this out. The turnover bugaboo came back tonight. We need to clean up the run outs at the other end. You can't win when you have 20 turnovers in a game and get beat up on the glass. You can't fault the effort at all though tonight." Koenig said."
" Hate to say this but Wheeling could not play any better than they did. We started out the game plan was not to fly at Goddard and then he made two 3-pointer's and we had to adjust. The bucket help was better also tonight. " Koenig said."
  Wheeling was led by 22 points from Preston Boswell- Pat Moseh added 21- Haywood Highsmith recorded a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Drake Goddard added 16- and- Jeremiah Wilson scored 13 for the Cards. The Cardinals shot 50 percent from the field- 52 percent (13-25) from the 3-point line- and- 82 percent (22-27) at the free throw line.  Wheeling won the rebounding battle 40-31. The Cards had 28 assists and 11 turnovers.
  Scarberry scored 28 to lead the Falcons- KT Taylor added 22- Halil Parks scored 14- and- Oliver Megins added 11. The Falcons shot 48 percent from the field- 50 percent (17-34) from the 3-point line- and- 85 percent (11-13) at the free throw line.  The Falcons had 14 assists and 20 turnovers.
 Scarberry talked about the process this team is going thru:
" I thought we found a good groove in the first half when it came to offense. But they had one of their best shooting halves of the season. I think we just need to continue to grow and adapt to the things that happen in the game. We will be fine." Scarberry said."
  Koenig spoke about Scarberry as well:
"Drew has shot the ball very well of late. It is crazy how the basketball gods work. Drew has been screening for others to get himself open. We have been running some specific sets for him. As you know in basketball the screener is often the guy who gets open and that has been the case with Drew. He has been setting better screens which has been getting himself open." Koenig said."
  At the first media timeout the Cardinals held a slight 13-9 edge. They would then go on a 13-4 run that would make it 26-13  after a Wilson basket at the 10:41 mark of the opening half. After three consecutive 3-pointer's by Scarberry and another by Parks NDC would be within one (26-25) at the 9:10 mark of the first half. At the 5:17 mark the Falcons would knot the game at 41 on a free throw by Scarberry. The Cardinals would close the half on a 20-4 run and take a 61-45 lead into the half. The first half saw the Cardinals shoot 63 percent from the field- a red hot 77 percent (10-13) from the 3-point line- and- 93 percent (13-14) at the free throw line.  The Cardinals had 16 assists and six turnovers in the opening half. They won the rebounding battle 14-13.
  NDC shot 47 percent in the opening half- 50 percent (9-18) from the 3-point line- and- six of six at the free throw line.  The Falcons had six assists and 11 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.
  The Cardinals would quickly extend the lead to 20 (67-47) early in the second half. The Falcons would run off the next eight points and be within 12 (67-55) after a Angelo Cugini basket at the 15:10 mark. Chris Greene would hit a 3-pointer and the Cardinals led 83-64 halfway thru the second half. NDC would get to within 12 twice but that is as close as they would get the rest of the way as the Cardinals remained perfect at home for the season.
 NDC will be back in action Saturday when they travel to Urbana. The Falcons and Blue Knights will tip at 4 PM and you can catch all the action on NotreDameFalcons.com
Other MEC Scores Wednesday:
Fairmont State 91 Glenville State 70
Shepherd 63 West Virginia Wesleyan 58
West Virginia State 90 Virginia Wise 88
West Liberty 93 Urbana 73
MEC Standings:
West Liberty 11-0 (16-0)
Wheeling Jesuit 10-1 (14-2)
Fairmont State 9-2 (13-4)
Shepherd 7-4 (11-6)
West Virginia State 7-4 (9-7)
Charleston 5-5 (9-7)
Concord 5-5 (8-7)
UVa-Wise 4-7 (6-11)
NDC 2-9 (4-13)
Urbana 2-9 (3-13)
West Virginia Wesleyan 2-9 (2-15)
Glenville State 1-10 (2-14)