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Mitchell Splits Basketball Results

Mariners win women's game, lose men's game

Mitchell College won an away game and lost a home game as the basketball season draws to a close. The following information provided by Mitchell College sports information director David Longolucco and Christa Parulis-Kaye, assistant commissioner for media relations with the New England Collegiate Conference:

Women's Basketball: Mitchell 55, Bay Path 34

Freshman guard Justine Hook (Berwick, Penn.) once again led all players with a game high 18 points and ten rebounds. Senior guard and honoree Katie Begin (Weare, N.H.) chipped in eight points for the Wildcats despite a 55-34 loss to New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) rival the Mitchell Mariners tonight during senior festivities at the Bartley Center also honoring forward Sam Hahn (Hadley, Mass.).

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Leading the way for the Mariners were a pair of starting forwards’ senior Alix O’Neil (New London, Conn.) and junior Bianca Young (Bridgeport, Conn.) tallying 12 and 14 points. O’ Neil also chipped in seven boards and three assists while Young added three boards, two assists and three steals.

Coming off the bench for Mitchell, sophomore forward Jordon Ringwood (New Haven, Conn.) led the Mariners under the boards with nine rebounds. Ringwood also added seven points and a game high six steals.

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Hook started the game off on fire nailing three treys in just over three minutes keeping Bay Path in the game for the first half. At 14:08 Begin would land a bucket to bring the score within one point 11-12. Mariner senior guard Allison Peck (Colchester, Conn.) would start the ball rolling for Mitchell landing a shot at 13:49 on the clock. Young would then make three from the charity stripe in the next few minutes. Begin would then make another shot, but Young would answer her back with a lay-up to put them up by seven at 8:01 on the clock.

Bay Path would then not come any closer to bridging the gap with Mitchell going up by 12 points at the half 31-19. Peck would finish with seven points, seven rebounds, six assists and four steals.

Bay Path’s key reservist freshman Symone Watson (Hamden, Conn.) would finish with six boards, while Hahn would add three rebounds and two points.  Sophomore guard Brittney Alexander (Enfield, Conn.) had six rebounds, four points and four assists.

Bay Path concludes their season at 0-25 and 0-16 in conference play, while Mitchell is now 14-8 and 11-4 in the NECC they will face Becker on the road on Saturday, February 19th at a 1:00 p.m. tip off.

Men's Basketball: Lesley 84, Mitchell 77

The Mitchell College men’s basketball team put up a strong fight but could not overcome the relentless attack of Lesley University in an 84-77 loss on Tuesday night at the Yarnall Athletic Center.

Lesley (6-17 overall, 3-10 NECC) led the entire second half and held off every Mitchell attempt to take over the lead. John Sanchez (Carson, Calif./Saint John Bosco) scored 13 of his game-high 21 points in the second half and finished with eight assists. He shot 17-for-19 from the free throw line in the contest as the Lynx outscored the Mariners 23-9 at the charity stripe.

Four players scored in double figures for Mitchell (1-21 overall, 0-13 NECC), led by 18 points from junior Julio Contreras (Boca Raton, Fla./West Boca). The Mariners shot 45 percent from the floor but were outrebounded by a 42-27 margin.

The score was tight for the first 12 minutes of the contest before Lesley reeled off 12 straight points to take control. Harold Smith (Florence, Ariz./Florence) scored six points during the stretch, and Grant Cobb (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata) capped the run with a lay-up to put the Lynx up 35-24 with 4:44 to play in the half.

Mitchell narrowed the margin to four in the final seconds of the stanza on a three-pointer by freshman Alex Del Rio (New Britain, Conn./Plainville), but Sanchez drew a foul with one second remaining and drained both freebies to give Lesley a 39-33 lead at the break. Sanchez finished with eight points in the half while Thornton Paul (Boston, Mass./West Roxbury) added nine.

Senior Tyler Blier (Wolcott, Conn./Bristol Eastern) gave Mitchell a quick boost to start the second half, scoring on a pair of moves in the paint in the opening minute. The Mariners pulled within one at 44-43 on a lay-in by junior Paul Jefferson (Waterbury, Conn./Waterbury Arts Magnet School), but Cobb answered right back with a jumper to keep the Lynx in front.

Mitchell cut the deficit to two points or less a total of eight times in the second half but never took a lead. On five occasions the Lynx made a basket on their next possession, and in the three other instances the Mariners drew iron on shots that would have given them the lead.

A pair of free throws by Blier cut the margin to 63-61 with 6:38 remaining, but Lesley used a 10-0 run over the next four minutes to put the game away. The Lynx scored on five straight possessions and led 73-61 with 2:34 to go following a lay-up by Jesus Trejo (Methuen, Mass./Methuen), who netted six points during the span. Lesley closed out the contest by going 10-for-11 from the foul line in the final 1:13.

Four players scored in double figures for the Lynx. Paul netted 18 points and added five rebounds while Trejo had 13 points and seven boards. Smith shot 6-for-10 from the field and finished with 12 points and Cobb led all players with 12 rebounds.

Del Rio had 11 points for the Mariners while Blier and freshman Chris Thomas (Orlando, Fla./Dr. Phillips) added 10 points each. Senior Patrick Nielsen (Norwalk, Conn./Winchendon School) finished with two points and a rebound in 12 minutes in the final home game of his career. Both Nielsen and Blier were honored prior to the game in a special Senior Night ceremony.

Mitchell will close out the regular season at Becker College on Saturday, February 19 at 3 p.m. Lesley will next play at Salem State College on Thursday, February 17 at 7 p.m.


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