SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Andre' Anthony scored the eventual winning basket with 0:07 remaining in regulation and the Clarion men's basketball team survived a wild finish on the road as the Golden Eagles beat Slippery Rock 68-67 at Morrow Fieldhouse on Wednesday.  With the win, the Golden Eagles improve to 13-14 overall and 10-11 in PSAC play.  It was their first road win against Slippery Rock since the 2010 season.
 
Anthony finishing the game with a team-high 18 points on 5-of-11 shooting, but it was his final free throw of the game that sealed the deal.  His last toss from the charity stripe put Clarion ahead 68-63 with seven seconds remaining.  Malcolm Harrison scored four quick points for the Rock and put them in position to take the win late, but Clarion stole an inbounds pass with less than a second left on the clock to secure victory.
 
Rob Agurs finished with his sixth double-double of the season, posting 13 points and 10 rebounds, while BJ Andrews added 17 points on the night.  The Golden Eagles shot just 37.0 percent from the floor but held the Rock to a 29.6 field goal percentage despite being outrebounded 43-36.
 
The Rock opened the game on an 8-2 run but the Golden Eagles began to chip away by attacking the rim and drawing fouls.  Anthony fired a shock three on the fast break to put the Golden Eagles ahead 13-9, and Agurs scored on a rush on the next possession to put Clarion up by two possessions with 12:58 left in the first half.  The teams traded free throws for an extended period as both squads clamped down on defense, but Anthony again made it a two-score game with an old-fashioned three-point play that set the score at 19-15.
 
Agurs took a feed from Anthony on a backdoor cut and laid it in to put Clarion ahead 21-16 with 6:57 left in the first half, and Grant knocked down a big three from the left wing to expand the lead to 29-24 with 3:54 left in the half. 
 
Justin Dobbs made a midrange jumper to make it 31-26, and Grumley made a key defensive play late in the half to make it a three-possession lead, stealing a Malcolm Richardson pass and scoring in transition through contact from Maxx Rynd.  Grumley finished the and-one to put the Golden Eagles ahead 34-26 with 1:10 remaining in the half.  He made a big play on offense on the next possession, dishing to Grant while falling down in the paint; Grant scored on a cut to the hoop to open up a double-digit lead over The Rock with 36.4 seconds left.   Clarion kept a three-possession lead at the halftime break, going into the locker room up 36-29.
 
Andrews took the lid off the hoop in the second half with a pair of three pointers, draining his first from the left corner and the second from dead center to put Clarion ahead 42-30 in the early going.  Anthony closed out the 9-0 run with a fast break three-pointer of his own, pulling up from 25-feet out and drilling the long bomb with 17:59 to go.  Agurs made it 52-40 with a pair of free throws at the 13:11 mark but The Rock responded with four straight points to get it back to single digits.
 
The Rock narrowed the gap and kept it close, though, with Chaquille Pratt pulling his team within one possession after a hook shot in the paint that made it 59-56.  Pratt laid it in on the next trip down the floor to cut the Golden Eagles' lead to 59-58.
 
Andrews fired another dagger with 3:37 left in regulation, draining a contested triple from the right corner to give Clarion a 62-58 advantage.  Anthony added a clutch make with under a minute to play, driving to the hoop and laying it in to make it 64-60 with 0:57 left, and the senior guard scored on a pair of free throws with 34.5 seconds left to make it 66-61.  Richardson put the Rock in position to steal the win late, but the Golden Eagles stole the inbounds pass with 0.5 remaining to pick up the win.