College Men’s Basketball Final – Guilford 66, Randolph-Macon 53

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Will Freeman (Fort Wayne, Ind./Richmond Senior (N.C.)) and Josh Pittman (Archdale, N.C./Trinity) both scored 16 points in Guilford College’s 66-53 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) basketball win over visiting Randolph-Macon College Saturday afternoon.

Freeman hit for 14 points and Pittman added 10 in a decisive first half that saw the Quakers (7-2, 2-1 ODAC) open a 41-27 halftime lead. Guilford made better than 65 percent of its shots and held the Yellow Jackets (6-3, 2-2 ODAC) to 37 percent shooting. The Quakers’ Gabriel Lowder (Yadkinville, N.C./North Forsyth) scored all five of his points in a key stretch late in the second half that saw Guilford build a three-point edge into an 11-point advantage.
Both teams tightened up defensively in the second half. Randolph-Macon limited Guilford to less than 26 percent shooting from the floor. Freeman and Pittman combined for eight second-half points after totaling 26 points together in the first half. Connor Sullivan’s (Charlotte, N.C./Providence Day School) free throw capped a 7-0 Randolph-Macon run that drew the Yellow Jackets to within 56-50 with 5:22 remaining. Guilford answered with strong defense of its own and held Randolph-Macon to a Jamie Robinson (Gainesville, Va./Battlefield) three-pointer in the final five minutes and closed the game on a 10-3 run.

Robinson paced the Yellow Jackets with 14 points off the bench. Senior Adam Desgain (Richmond, Va./J.R. Tucker) added 12 points and a team-high nine rebounds, but shot just five-of-12 from the floor. Randolph-Macon’s leading scorer, sophomore Andre Simon (Newport News, Va./Menchville) , managed two points in 23 minutes off the bench, 12 below his season average.
Guilford’s Carson Sullivan (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Christian (Pennsylvania)) contributed nine points, six boards and an assist in his first college matchup against his brother, Connor. Brad Monroe (Asheboro, N.C./Eastern Randolph) chipped in eight points and grabbed a game-high 11 points. The Quakers held Randolph-Macon to 34.5 percent shooting from the floor and held a 44-35 rebounding advantage.

The Quakers host Maryville (Tenn.) College next Saturday (12/17) at 3:00 p.m. in a nonconference game.

Randolph-Macon vs Guilford
12/10/11 3:00 pm at Greensboro, NC – Ragan-Brown Field House

GUILFORD 66, RANDOLPH-MACON 53

RANDOLPH-MACON (6-3, 2-2 ODAC)
ROBINSON, Jamie 5-10 1-3 14; DESGAIN, Adam 5-12 1-2 12; COLE, Dylan 3-4 0-0 6; SULLIVAN, Connor 1-3 4-6 6; CROSKEY, Calvin 2-10 0-0 6; WALKER, Trent 1-2 0-0 3; HOLMES, Akeem 1-4 0-0 2; SIMON, Andre 1-3 0-0 2; GIGGETTS, Lamar 1-7 0-2 2; FROMANG, Hunter 0-0 0-0 0; HAMILTON, Chris 0-0 0-0 0; JACKSON, Evan 0-0 0-0 0; KING, Kyle 0-0 0-0 0; BADGER, Marcus 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 20-58 6-13 53.

GUILFORD (7-2, 2-1 ODAC)
PITTMAN, Josh 4-11 6-6 16; FREEMAN, Will 7-13 2-5 16; SULLIVAN, Carson 2-7 5-6 9; MONROE, Brad 4-5 0-1 8; STAFFORD, Justin 2-6 2-2 6; LOWDER, Gabriel 2-7 0-0 5; GIBBS, Kevin 0-0 2-4 2; TRACY, Travis 1-3 0-0 2; McCARTHY, Matt 1-2 0-0 2; KOPPENHAVER, Will 0-0 0-0 0; HINTON, Jarred 0-0 0-0 0; EFIRD, Gene 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 17-24 66.

   Randolph-Macon.............   27   26  -   53
   Guilford...................   41   25  -   66

3-point goals–Randolph-Macon 7-25 (ROBINSON, Jamie 3-7; CROSKEY, Calvin 2-9; DESGAIN, Adam 1-5; WALKER, Trent 1-1; GIGGETTS, Lamar 0-1; HOLMES, Akeem 0-1; SULLIVAN, Connor 0-1), Guilford 3-10 (PITTMAN, Josh 2-5; LOWDER, Gabriel 1-2; SULLIVAN, Carson 0-1; TRACY, Travis 0-2).
Fouled out–Randolph-Macon-None, Guilford-None.
Rebounds–Randolph-Macon 35 (DESGAIN, Adam 9), Guilford 44 (MONROE, Brad 11).
Assists–Randolph-Macon 10 (SIMON, Andre 3), Guilford 15 (HINTON, Jarred 5).
Total fouls–Randolph-Macon 22, Guilford 16.
Technical fouls–Randolph-Macon-None, Guilford-None.
A-546
Old Dominion Athletic Conference game