Archive for February, 2009
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - 1:40 am
PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. — Trinity Christian College finished the regular season leading the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference in field goal and 3-point percentages. And in the final three-plus minutes of Monday’s quarter-final contest, the Trolls displayed their 3-point prowess for an 80-68 win ending the Peregrines’ 2008-09 season.
Peregrine center Kevin Thomas (Highland) scored off an offensive rebound, was fouled and finished off the 3-point play nailing the free throw bringing his team to within one, 64-63, with 3:44 left to play. That was as close as the Peregrines would get in the closing minutes of the game.
The Trolls connected on their next five possessions, including a pair of 3-pointers, while the Peregrines could only muster one field goal during two-plus minutes of action. That stretched the one-point lead to 76-65 Troll advantage with 90 seconds left.
Peregrine guard Robert Williams (Gary West Side) nailed a 3-pointer just beyond the top of the key to finish the scoring with 33 seconds left on the clock.
Antonio Hurt (Michigan City) led the Peregrines with 14 points, including two from the 3-point stripe. The sophomore hit 54 percent from the field and 66 percent from 3-point line.
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 - 5:52 pm
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A combination of full court defensive pressure and a hot offense in the second half helped the Purdue North Central Panthers get their first conference win of the season. The Panthers forced 18 turnovers and connected on 10 baskets from the 3-point arc beating the Peregrines splitting the season series in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference and closing out the regular season for both squads.
PUC had a six-point, 36-30, lead at the half, but PNC amped up its offense scoring 43 in the second 20 minutes of action. The Peregrines (3-25 overall, 3-9 CCAC) couldn’t get their offense rolling for most of the second half, including a 2-of-10 success rate from the 3-point stripe.
Sophomore Robert Williams (Gary West Side) led the Peregrines in scoring for the third time this season. Williams was 5-of-7 (71 percent) from the field, including a 3-pointer, and was perfect at the charity stripe 6-of-6 for 17 points in the contest, more than doubling his season average of 8.4 per game.
Antonio McNeal (Hammond Gavit) scored double figures for the tenth time in 15 games. The junior, who leads the Peregrines with a 13.1 per game average, scored 15 and added six rebounds.
Two seniors, Kevin Thomas (Highland) and Kris Krstevski (Lake Central), each scored eight points. Thomas grabbed six rebounds in the loss, while Krstevski had three of the team’s six steals.
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009 - 1:24 am
REC CENTER — For 19 minutes and 46 seconds of the first half, the Peregrines had a lead over the conference-leading Wolves giving the home crowd energy. But when Wolves guard Pat Barron hit a 3-pointer with 14 seconds left in the half it ignited the Cardinal Stritch University offense that scored 61 in the second 20 minutes leading to the 98-78 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference win.
The Peregrines opened the game on a 6-0 run and built the lead to eight, 26-18, when senior Kris Krstevski hit his first 3-pointer of the night. But the Wolves closed the half with a 19-9 run of their own taking a 37-35 lead into the locker room.
Four-and-a-half minutes into the second half, the Wolves (20-7 overall, 10-2 CCAC) pushed the lead to double digits hitting four of their first five shots. The Peregrines’ offense struggled out of the intermission connecting on 2-of-9 (22 percent) through the first seven minutes and never got hot enough to match the Wolves.
Sophomore Michael Patton (Gary West Side) nabbed his first double double of the season grabbing a game-high 14 rebounds, while scoring a dozen points. Patton leads the CCAC averaging 8.4 rebounds per game and leads the Peregrines with a 7.7 rpg average.
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009 - 10:30 pm
REC CENTER — After shooting 52 percent from the field at the south basket in the first half, the Peregrines headed north where the shots refused to drop for the home team. The Peregrines finished the half hitting only 29 percent of their shots falling to the St. Ambrose University Bees 67-62 in the second game of homecoming Saturday.
Through the first 13 minutes of the second half, the Peregrines only scored a dozen points, but were still within five points of the Bees. And when guard Robert Williams (Gary West Side) nailed his second 3-pointer of the game, the Peregrines trailed 58-56 with six-plus minutes to play.
But in the final six minutes the Peregrines could only connect on two more shots, while the Bees hit four-of-seven (57 percent) including a 3-pointer to seal the win. The Peregrines (3-23) led 41-33 at the half, but the sluggish offense only registered 21 second-half points in the loss.
Williams scored a season-high 19 points, hitting 61 percent from the field, including three 3-pointers, to lead the Peregrines. The sophomore also had five rebounds, four assists and two steals.
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 12:08 am
REC CENTER — A Vince Johnson tip-in with 20 seconds left pulled the Peregrines to within three, 93-90, as close as they had been in the second half. Six seconds later, Judson’s Dewayne Robinson, the game’s high scorer, missed a pair of free throws giving the Peregrines another shot at tieing the contest.
And 10 seconds later when freshman Jarrid Bradley grabbed the rebound after a missed 3-point attempt with 3.2 ticks left, the Peregrines had one more chance to knot the game. But a turnover on the in-bounds pass swiped by Robinson sealed the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference win for the Eagles.
PUC (3-22 overall, 3-7 CCAC) trailed by as much as a dozen points throughout the second half, but never quit on both ends of the floor. The Peregrines cut the Eagle lead to three points four times during the half, but never grabbed the lead in the loss.
Junior Antonio McNeal (Hammond Gavit) led the Peregrines with 25 points, including six made in the final four minutes before fouling out of the contest. McNeal has led the team in scoring in the last five of eight games and leads the team scoring 12.4 per game.
Johnson (Bishop Noll) hit 54 percent of his shots for 19 points and collected three rebounds. The senior forward is averaging 9.2 points and 6.5 rebounds overall and 11.7 points and 7.9 rebounds in the CCAC.
Sophomore guard Robert Williams (Gary West Side) scored a dozen and grabbed six rebounds. He’s averaging 7.3 points and 2.7 rebounds per game this season.
Antonio Hurt (Michigan City) scored 11 points off the bench. The sophomore is the team’s second leading scorer averaging 11.6 per game.
The Peregrines host the St. Ambrose University Fighting Bees (10-16) on Saturday at 3 p.m. in the second game of homecoming.
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