November 2, 2006                    

Tiger men’s basketball opens season with 81-68 win over Southwestern JV

With several new faces on the squad, the Cowley College men’s basketball team opened the 2006-2007 campaign with an 81-68 win over the Southwestern College JV Wednesday at W.S. Scott Auditorium.

Cowley led by as many as 25 points (56-31) before settling for the 13-point win. Cowley head coach Brian Jackson was not extremely pleased with the way his team played in the win.

“At least we came away with a win,” Jackson said. “Hopefully, the guys can learn from a win like this. Sometimes the guys believe they can just show up and win, but you have to concentrate every second of the game and they found that out tonight.”

Freshman Sanijay Watts scored 16 of his game-high 22 points in the first half as Cowley built a 42-28 halftime lead. Sophomore post player Santwon Latunde added 13 points and 11 rebounds, while freshman Ludovic Dovonou finished with seven points and 10 rebounds.

Kyle Hubele was the lone Moundbuiler to score in double figures as he led Southwestern with 19 points and seven rebounds in the defeat.

Cowley will return to action Saturday when they play at No. 16-ranked Seminole State at 4 p.m.

“They are a very good basketball team,” Jackson said. “We play games like this to prepare our guys for conference play. It will take some time, but as long as our kids are coachable we will get there.”

The game can be heard on KACY 102.5 FM.

Box score:

Southwestern JV (68): Kyle Hubele 7-12 1-3 19, Tim Moore 3-10 1-2 7, Damien Harris 1-4 0-0 3, Chase Brisco 1-6 3-4 6, Curtis Housholder 2-4 1-4 5, Keith Johnson 2-4 1-2 5, Paulo Borges 0-0 1-2 1, Sheldon Brown 2-4 0-0 6, Nick Wagner 1-2 2-2 4, Alex Sims 1-2 0-0 3, Jason Jeschke 3-9 0-0 9. Totals: 23-57 10-19 68.

Cowley (81): Sanijay Watts 11-19 0-0 22, Matt Muncy 4-6 0-0 8, Ludovic Dovonou 2-4 3-4 7, Joe Harvey 1-7 2-4 4, Eric Hammond 2-9 0-1 5, Larry Cox 3-8 2-3 9, Tommy Williams 1-2 0-0 2, James Loe 2-3 3-4 7, Nikola Grbicic 1-4 2-2 4, Tyler Blackburn 0-0 0-0 0, Santwon Latunde 4-5 5-8 13. Totals: 31-67 17-26 81.

Three-pointers: SC 12-31 (Hubele 4-8, Moore 0-2, Harris 1-3, Brisco 1-4, Johnson 0-1, Brown 2-3, Wagner 0-1, Sims 1-2, Jeschke 3-7), Cowley 2-7 (Muncy 0-1, Harvey 0-1, Hammond 1-2, Cox 1-2, Loe 0-1). Rebounds: SC 28 (Hubele 7), Cowley 50 (Latunde 11). Assists: SC 14 (Hubele 3), Cowley 15 (Harvey 5). Turnovers: SC 19, Cowley 21. Total fouls: SC 20, Cowley 21. Fouled out: Harris, Latunde. Technicals: none.