ELKINS, W. Va. –
Rob Agurs continued his recent stretch of strong play with a double-double,
Tim Gill added another, and the Clarion men's basketball team rolled to a 79-60 win over Davis & Elkins on Wednesday. The Golden Eagles (4-2 will return home to host Carlow on Saturday, Nov. 28 at Tippin Gymnasium.
Agurs went 5-of-11 from the field and filled up the stat sheet with 12 points as well as game-highs of 13 rebounds and six assists. He provided defense as well, adding two blocks and two steals in a team-high 35 minutes of action.
Tim Gill and B.J. Andrews tied for the game-high with 19 points apiece, with Gill also hauling in 11 caroms in just 22 minutes of play.
The Golden Eagles shot a healthy 31-of-65 from the field for a 47.7 field goal percentage while holding the Senators to a paltry 32.3 percent from the field. Clarion was paced in that category by Gill, who was a highly-efficient 8-of-14 on field goals. Clarion won the rebounding battle 45-35, including 19 offensive rebounds, and shared the ball well in posting 22 assists on the evening.
Andre' Anthony came off the bench early on and added a three-pointer to the Golden Eagles' opening run to make it 11-2;
Akeem Williams took a feed from Agurs and laid it in with 13:43 left in the first half to cap the run at 13-2. The Senators didn't make their first field goal of the game until nearly eight minutes in on a lay-up by Aleks Vasiljevic and didn't reach double figures in scoring until well after the halfway point of the period. Andrews drained a three-pointer to make it 19-11 and Agurs took a fast break feed off a steal by
Cameron Grumley to bump the lead back to double-digits at 27-16.
Andrews made another trey with 2:10 left in the first half to push the lead to 37-25 but Davis & Elkins pulled to within single-digits by the end of the half. The Senators pulled even midway through the second after a pair of free throws by Rickenjee Bellevue but they got no closer as the Golden Eagles turned it on late with a 14-3 run. Anthony knocked down a three-pointer to give his team a 61-50 lead and Grant capped the run with a lay-up at the 5:30 mark of the half. Grumley gave the team its biggest lead of the evening with less than a minute remaining on a jumper inside the arc, and Clarion coasted the rest of the way to the win.
