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Dmarco Barnes came off the bench to hit five three-pointers and score a career-high 15 points tonight
102
Winner Daemen DAEM 6-1
70
LIU Post LIUPM 0-7
Winner
Daemen DAEM
6-1
102
Final
70
LIU Post LIUPM
0-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Daemen DAEM 55 47 102
LIU Post LIUPM 30 40 70

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | By Mike Miranto, Sr. Associate A.D. for External Operations & Communications

Wildcats Race To Fourth Straight Win

BROOKVILLE, N.Y. - Redshirt sophomore center Andrew Sischo (Guilderland, N.Y.) scored 27 points to lead a sextet of double-figure scorers as Daemen College raced to a 102-70 win over Long Island University Post in East Coast Conference men's basketball action at the Pratt Recreation Center tonight. It was the fourth consecutive win for the Wildcats who improved to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in ECC play this season. LIU Post dropped to 0-7 overall and 0-3 in the league.

Daemen shot a season-high 59.4 percent from the field, connecting on 41-of-69 shots. They also knocked down a season-high 14 three-pointers and shot 48.3 percent from downtown. The hot shooting allowed Daemen to rack up a season-high 27 assists as they surpassed 100 points for the first time since a 102-98 double-overtime win over Molloy College last February. The last time Daemen reached the century mark in a regulation game was Feb. 13, 2016 in a 100-86 win over Mercy College. Since the start of the 2009-10 season, Daemen is 65-2 when scoring 90 or more points.

Sischo was nearly unstoppable down low tonight as he shot 12-for-14 from the field. The Daemen big man grabbed nine rebounds as well, but saw his string of consecutive double-doubles snapped at seven. He added two assists, two blocks and two steals. Sischo entered the game as the leading rebounder in all of Division II, while also ranking ninth in the country in scoring. He's topped 20 points in four straight games, and is averaging 24.4 points and 12.1 rebounds per game this season.

Dmarco Barnes (Baldwin, N.Y.), Jeff Redband (Batavia, N.Y.), Ziv Basden (Nassau, Bahamas), Quinn Lee Yaw (Jamestown, N.Y.) and Breon Harris (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) all reached double figures for the Wildcats. Barnes, a redshirt senior guard, enjoyed a breakout game while playing back on his native Long Island as he drilled 5-of-8 from three-point range and notched a career-high 15 points. Redband connected on a quartet of three-pointers and totaled 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Basden came off the bench to score 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting, reaching double figures for the first time in his career. He added nine rebounds as well. Lee Yaw (11 points, five assists, three steals) and Harris (11 points, four assists, two steals) split 22 points between them.

Seth Goumba shot 7-for-9 from three-point range and led the Pioneers with 25 points. Alonzo Ortiz-Traylor added 21 points and nine boards. Ortiz-Traylor entered the game averaging 25.7 points per game, tops in the ECC and the NCAA Division II East Region.

Daemen blitzed the hosts at the outset, scoring the first seven points and ultimately racing out to a 24-4 lead less than six minutes into the contest. The lead ballooned to 26 points when Sischo put them ahead 52-26 at the 4:01 mark. Redband's three-pointer just before the first-half buzzer closed the scoring and sent the Wildcats to the locker room with a 55-30 advantage. 

The Daemen lead reached 32 points when Sischo and Lee Yaw combined on a highlight-reel play early in the second half. Sischo grabbed a defensive rebound and fired an Aaron Judge-like laser beam of a pass to the streaking Lee Yaw who slammed it home, putting the Wildcats ahead 69-37. The Wildcats would go on to lead by as many as 40 points later in the half.

The win came despite the Wildcats again playing without starting guards Jay Sarkis (Rochester, N.Y.) and Darius Garvin (Elmira, N.Y.), as well as key reserve Nick Petrucelli (Hicksville, N.Y.) who are all out with injuries for the time being. Sarkis, who averaged 12.4 points per game last season, has missed all but the first 11 minutes of the season. Garvin missed his second game of the year, and Petrucelli has been out of action since mid-November.

The Wildcats improved to 7-5 all-time, and have now won four straight meetings vs. LIU Post. The Pioneers are in their final season as members of the ECC. A plan to unite LIU's Post and Brooklyn campuses was announced earlier this fall. All LIU athletic teams will compete at the Division I level in the future, as their Brooklyn campus currently does. 

Daemen, which is ranked fourth in the latest Division II Sports Information Directors of America (D2SIDA) East Region media poll, returns to action Sunday when they visit New York Institute of Technology for a 3:30 p.m. tip-off. NYIT was in action Friday evening as well, dropping a 92-67 decision to visiting Roberts Wesleyan College which sends the Bears to 1-9 overall and 1-2 in ECC play this season.

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