Box Score
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Susquehanna men's basketball
team was looking to hand the Lycoming men's squad its first
loss of the season, but the Warriors dealt the Crusaders an 82-63
loss on Tuesday night.
In a game that featured a combined 55 fouls, SU (1-2)
out-rebounded Lycoming (5-0) by a 40-35 margin but a 51 percent
shooting performance from the Warriors had a hand in the final
outcome. Three Susquehanna players tallied double figures, led by
freshman Harley Sellinger's (Mill Hall, Pa./Central
Mountain) 12 off the bench as head coach Frank
Marcinek went to his bench for the entire second half of
play.
Sellinger also led the squad with seven rebounds while
Wally Rutecki (Springfield, Pa./Springfield HS)
and Spenser Spencer (Seattle, Wash./Lakeside)
added 10 points apiece.
The Crusaders rallied early after falling behind 8-0 by scoring
eight straight of their own with six of those points coming from
Spencer. Susquehanna then took its first lead of the game, 12-10,
on a Spencer layup.
Two Harvey Pannell (Bloomfield, Conn./St. Thomas
More) free throws five minutes into the action kept SU
ahead by two (15-13). The lead switched hands for the next six
minutes as Brendan Rezny (Sparta, N.J./Sparta)
made it 22-20 with 9:19 on the clock.
Unfortunately, that marked the final lead of the night for
Susquehanna. A Sebastian Sabella trey 30 seconds after
Rezny's layup put the Warriors ahead for good at 25-22.
By the end of the opening half, Lycoming held a 47-32 lead with
23 of those points coming off SU turnovers.
Marcinek went with an entirely new lineup in the second half and
it gave the team a bit of a spark as Susquehanna closed the gap to
10 points (50-40) on Sellinger's jumper four minutes into the
period.
The Crusaders could not pull any closer, however, and Lycoming
ran the clock out to end the game at 82-63.
The Warriors' Ihsaan Davis led all scorers with 21 points
in 32 minutes of action. He was one of four Lycoming players in
double figures.
Next game: Nov. 27-28 at the Carnegie Mellon
Invitational.
