Box Score PHILADELPHIA – Despite a game-tying layup by senior guard
Jake Wilcox (Kent, Wash.) with two seconds remaining in regulation to knot the score at 57-57, the Post University men's basketball team dropped its first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) contest of the season at Chestnut Hill on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles dropped a 70-66 overtime decision to the Griffins. Junior
Zach Krischer (Port Jefferson, N.Y.) paced Post with 16 points.
After junior
Jerry Cummings (Queens, N.Y.) scored the opening basket of the overtime period to give Post a 59-57 lead, Chestnut Hill (4-5, 1-2 CACC) ripped off a 9-0 run over a span of 3:43 to claim an eight-point advantage with 33 seconds to play. The Griffins led 67-59. The Eagles could not cut the deficit to fewer than four points the rest of the way.
With Post (8-2, 4-1 CACC) trailing 10-8 and 4:45 elapsed in the first half, the Eagles used a 9-0 run over a span of 4:51 to claim a 17-10 margin with 10:54 remaining in the stanza. Krischer opened the spurt with a jumper, and it was highlighted by a pair of triples by junior
Stephen Perry (Westampton, N.J.).
Chestnut Hill took a five-point lead, its largest of the half, after a Seamus Radtke jumper with 32 seconds to play before intermission. Radtke's field goal made the score 32-27 in favor of the Griffins, but Krischer hit a triple off a Wilcox pass with six seconds to play before halftime to make the Eagles' deficit 32-30 at the break.
In the second half, neither team led by more than three points and the stanza featured seven ties. Post earned its three-point advantages on a Cummings three-pointer at the 18:39 mark, a Krischer triple with 13:45 to play, and a Cummings jumper with 12:13 to go.
For the game, Post was held to just 34.3 percent shooting from the field and only 35.5 (11-for-31) from distance. Individually, Cummings and Perry chipped in 15 and 12 points, respectively.
The Eagles will attempt to return to their winning ways on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. Post will host Northeast-10 Conference foe Saint Anselm in a non-conference contest at the Drubner Center.
