Farmingdale State 86, Baruch 73
NEW YORK | The Farmingdale State College men's basketball team scored the final 10 points of its game Wednesday night, as the Rams captured an 86-73 road victory at Baruch College. With the win, 13th-year mentor
Brendan Twomey became the first coach in program history to record 200 career victories at FSC.
Twomey is Farmingdale State's all-time winningest men's basketball coach, and now owns a 200-106 (.654) record at the school.Â
Senior guard
Michael Notias (Manhasset, N.Y.) led four Rams players in double-figure scoring with 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting, while classmate
Sean Conroy (Staten Island, N.Y.) and sophomore
Jordan Tucker (Elmont, N.Y.) each scored 16 – with Tucker's (6-of-7 FG) total setting a career-high. Junior forward
Liam Buckley (Manhasset, N.Y.) registered a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, with junior post
Kentrell Evans (Brooklyn, N.Y.) notching eight points and 10 boards.
The first half between Farmingdale State and the host Bearcats (2-3) saw neither side go ahead by more than five points, with Buckley's layup with 5:20 remaining staking the visitors to a 31-26 advantage. Following a dunk by freshman Dylan Stanley (Lynbrook, N.Y.) with 40 ticks on the clock, Baruch recorded a layup in the final 15 seconds to cut FSC's lead to 44-43 going into halftime.
In the second half, the Bearcats led soon after the teams returned from the locker room, and took its largest lead of the evening at 65-59 with 10:04 remaining. From there, six different Rams players scored points in a 12-0 run, with Tucker's driving layup at the 6:50 mark giving his team a 71-65 edge. Baruch received a 3-pointer with 3:19 to go in cutting its deficit to 76-73, but would not score for the rest of the night. After Notias buried a step-back jumper at 3:05 to start the 10-point run to close out the game, Tucker scored five-straight points to push the lead to double figures on his triple with 1:04 remaining.
Farmingdale State returns home for non-conference action on Saturday (Nov. 22), when it plays host to Ramapo College of New Jersey at 2:30 p.m.
