PATTON, WOODS LEAD LIONS PAST PILOTS, 80-53
December 01, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 30, 2004
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PATTON, WOODS LEAD LIONS PAST PILOTS, 80-53
HAMMOND – Jonathan Patton scored a career-high 22 points, including five 3-pointers, and Ricky Woods added 17 points as Southeastern Louisiana opened its home schedule with an 80-53 win over LSU-Shreveport Tuesday at the University Center.
After going 1-for-10 in a 65-62 loss at Southern Miss last Wednesday, Patton made 7-of-11 shots, including 5-of-8 from behind the arc as Southeastern (4-1) won its 16th straight regular-season home game dating back to the 2002-03 season and equaled its best five-game start since going 4-1 in 1984-85.
LSU-Shreveport, which came into the contest averaging 96.8 points per game, dropped its second straight against a Southland Conference opponent. "It was important to get him (Patton) into a rhythm from the perimeter with an important stretch on the road coming up," Southeastern head coach Billy Kennedy said about his senior guard. "It was good for our guards to play against a team that played zone the entire game. Overall, I was very pleased with our defensive effort for about 32 minutes. To their (LSU-S) credit, they did a good job of penetrating the lane.
After spotting the Pilots a 5-2 lead in the first minute of the game, Patton hit back-to-back three’s to give the Lions an 8-5 lead. Derrick Rogers, who finished with six points after entering the game with a 20.2 average, nailed a 3-pointer to knot the score at 8-8 before Southeastern’s Jonathan Walker hit four straight free throws to give the Lions a 12-8 advantage.
A bucket in the lane by Derrick Sowell cut the Southeastern lead to 12-10 with 13:15 remaining in the first half, but that would be as close as the Pilots would get as Southeastern went on a 15-2 run, capped by Chris Lee’s layup that gave the Lions a 27-12 lead with 7:15 left.
The Lions led by as many as 22 points in the first half and built a 40-21 cushion at the break. Woods scored 10 points in the first half for Southeastern, which held LSU-S to 29 percent from the floor in the opening 20 minutes and 35 percent for the game.
Southeastern took its biggest lead of the night, 75-47, when Lee drove thelane and scored two of his season-high six points with 2:34 remaining in the game. LSU-S, which dressed only eight players and were without leading scorer Fredericko Payne, played a 2-3 zone the entire night against the Lions concentrating on stopping leading scorer Nate Lofton. The 6-foot-10 Lofton, who finished with eight points, dished out a game-high six assists as Southeastern recorded a season-high 24 against the smaller Pilots. Sowell led LSU-S with 18 points while Fredrick Hughes added 11. Pilot center Derrick Hill tied a University Center-record by an opponent with seven blocks in the game, equaling the previous mark set by Northwestern State’s Larry Terry in the 1992-93 season.
The Lions return to action on Friday at 5:35 p.m. when it battles Sun Belt Conference member Arkansas-Little Rock in the opening round of the Price Cutter Classic, hosted by Southwest Missouri State. The Lions will then play either host SMS or Youngstown State on Saturday.
LSU-SHREVEPORT (5-2)Sowell 7-13 1-2 18; Hughes 4-14 1-1 11; Collins 1-9 4-4 7; Rogers 2-6 0-0 6; Simmons 2-5 0-0 5; Walker 1-2 2-2 4; Hill 1-1 0-0 2; Saxon 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 18-51 8-9 53.
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA (4-1) Patton 7-11 3-4 22; R. Woods 7-14 3-4 17; Walker 3-7 4-4 10; Lofton 3-8 2-4 8; Bryant 2-5 2-2 6; Lee 3-6 0-1 6; Edwards 2-2 0-0 4; T. Woods 1-3 2-4 4; Berry 1-3 0-0 3; Payton 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-60 16-23 80.
Halftime – SLU 41, LSUS 20. 3-point goals – LSUS 9-27 (Sowell 3-4; Hughes 2-8; Rogers 2-4; Simmons 1-2; Collins 1-8; Walker 0-1), SLU 6-15 (Patton 5-8; Berry 1-3; Lee 0-3; Payton 0-1). Fouled out -- None. Rebounds – LSUS 29 (Hill 6), SLU 37 (R. Woods 8). Assists – LSUS 10 (Collins, Hughes 3), SLU 24 (Lofton 6).
Total fouls – LSUS 17, SLU 12. A – 728.
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