Saturday, December 22
Riverside, CA
7:00 PM
UC Riverside
53
vs
71
CSU Bakersfield
Men's Basketball Falls At Home, 71-53, To CSU Bakersfield
12/22/2007 11:53:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Riverside—UC Riverside fell to Cal State Bakersfield (2-10), 71-53 at the Student Recreation Center Saturday night. Senior Larry Cunningham and junior Aaron Scott each finished with team-highs of 12 points for the Highlanders (3-7).
Both teams traded baskets through the first nine minutes before the Highlanders went up 17-12 on junior Severin Gates's layup. UCR would hold their lead over the next couple minutes until CSUB strung a couple baskets together for an 8-0 run and took a 30-25 lead with just over one minute remaining in the half. Riverside did answer the run with Larry Cunningham's layup followed by a steal and jumper a by Gates with two seconds remaining to cut to 30-29 Roadrunners at the break.
The Highlanders trailed despite shooting a season-high 13 for 26 (50.0%) from the floor and forcing 11 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.
Riverside came out with some defensive pressure to start the second half and tried to convert some Bakersfield miscues into points. Instead it was CSUB that turned up the dial on defense and started to knock down shots at their offensive end. The Roadrunners steadily increased their half-time lead by shooting 16-for-32 (50.0%) from the floor in the second half a held double-digit leads throughout most of the final 20 minutes.
Bakersfield outscored UCR 41-23 in the second half by way of that outside shooting to pick up the victory 71-53. CSUB's Trent Blakley was on fire from the outside, finishing the night with eight of the Roadrunner's 14 three-pointers. Blakley put up 26 points and three other Bakersfield players added double figures in points in support of Blakley's game-high total. CSUB finished the game with an impressive 14-for-27 (51.9%) from behind the arc, which proved to be the difference. The Highlanders struggled from long range making 2-of-12 (16.7%) from long range.
It was just one of those nights when the shots didn't fall and the opponent seemed to make every shot they threw up. Junior Christian Soto added seven points and seven rebounds and sophomore Sean Cunningham brought down a game-high nine boards for UCR who shot 26.9% in the second half to finish the night 20-of-52 (38.5%).
The Highlanders have one more game until the start of Big West Conference play in January. UCR will travel to Los Angeles next Saturday to face USC at 5:00 p.m.
Both teams traded baskets through the first nine minutes before the Highlanders went up 17-12 on junior Severin Gates's layup. UCR would hold their lead over the next couple minutes until CSUB strung a couple baskets together for an 8-0 run and took a 30-25 lead with just over one minute remaining in the half. Riverside did answer the run with Larry Cunningham's layup followed by a steal and jumper a by Gates with two seconds remaining to cut to 30-29 Roadrunners at the break.
The Highlanders trailed despite shooting a season-high 13 for 26 (50.0%) from the floor and forcing 11 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.
Riverside came out with some defensive pressure to start the second half and tried to convert some Bakersfield miscues into points. Instead it was CSUB that turned up the dial on defense and started to knock down shots at their offensive end. The Roadrunners steadily increased their half-time lead by shooting 16-for-32 (50.0%) from the floor in the second half a held double-digit leads throughout most of the final 20 minutes.
Bakersfield outscored UCR 41-23 in the second half by way of that outside shooting to pick up the victory 71-53. CSUB's Trent Blakley was on fire from the outside, finishing the night with eight of the Roadrunner's 14 three-pointers. Blakley put up 26 points and three other Bakersfield players added double figures in points in support of Blakley's game-high total. CSUB finished the game with an impressive 14-for-27 (51.9%) from behind the arc, which proved to be the difference. The Highlanders struggled from long range making 2-of-12 (16.7%) from long range.
It was just one of those nights when the shots didn't fall and the opponent seemed to make every shot they threw up. Junior Christian Soto added seven points and seven rebounds and sophomore Sean Cunningham brought down a game-high nine boards for UCR who shot 26.9% in the second half to finish the night 20-of-52 (38.5%).
The Highlanders have one more game until the start of Big West Conference play in January. UCR will travel to Los Angeles next Saturday to face USC at 5:00 p.m.
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