Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Dismal Shooting Performance Ends In Lions’ Biggest Loss Of The Season

The Piedmont College men’s basketball team put together its worst shooting performance of the season tonight as the Lions dropped a 71-55 non-conference road game at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. Piedmont was 2-22 (9%) from behind the three-point line and committed 17 turnovers as the team falls to 7-8 overall on the season after producing the lowest point total of the season.

Piedmont started the game slowly connecting on just 31% of its first-half shots including 0-11 from three-point land as the Lions trailed 33-23 at intermission. Piedmont would show some spark to open the second half and cut the Monarchs’ lead to five, but MU responded with an 11-2 run over the next five minutes to jump ahead by fourteen and keep PC at bay for the remainder of the contest.

Jake Baldwin led all scorers with a game-high 17 points to go along with a season-best 18 rebounds. Teammates Jake Green and Tyler Whitlock added 16 and 11 points respectively with Green dishing out a game-high nine assists.

Methodist placed five players in double-figures as Adrian Bascom (15 points and 10 rebounds) and Antwin Shuford (13 points and 11 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles.

With the loss the Lions and Monarchs split the season series with both team winning on their respective home court.

Piedmont will return to action on Thursday, January 18th with a non-conference home game versus Atlanta Christian College with tip off set for 7:00 in PC’s Cave Arena.