Box Score
Box Score
BOSTON, MA -- The Ephs (5-1) cruised to a 73-50 win over Harbor
Invitational host UMass-Boston (1-2) on Saturday to claim the
tournament championship. Williams led by as many as 32 points
in the first half and was able to get everyone on the bench playing
time.
"It was a total team effort this weekend," said Eph coach Mike
Maker, "and we shot 50% from the field for the tournament, which is
something we're capable of doing consistently if we continue
running our stuff."
The Ephs' defense wasn't bad either, as they held both opponents
to under 40% shooting from the floor.
Partly by design and partly by the way the particular game
played out, Williams scoring was much more balanced than it was a
day ago. Ethan Timmins-Schiffman (Wilmington, DE) led the
Ephs with 14 points, while Eph-leading scorer Kevin Snyder
(Littleton, CO) added 12 and sophomore Harlan Dodson (Nashville,
TN) netted 11.
Do-it-all swingman Blake Schultz (Atherton, CA) grabbed 11
rebounds to lead the Ephs, and also scored 9 points.
"Yesterday we got out rebounded pretty bad by a physical
Framingham team," said Maker, "and I thought we collected ourselves
well today and did a better job on the glass."
Williams out rebounded UMass-Boston 38 to 31.
For the Beacons, the majority of their struggles came in the
first half as the Ephs out scored them 39 to 19. UMB played
Williams relatively even in the second half though, as the Ephs
only won that half by three.
Beacon forward Aaron Jones and Paul Kielb were the only Beacon
players to register in double digits, scoring 13 and 10 points
respectively.
Kevin Snyder was named the tourney MVP and Blake Schltz earned
All-Tournament honors.
Regarding the back-to-back double digit victories, Coach Maker
had this to say:
"We look at every game like it's a challenge, you know the
Framingham State game [which Williams won by 11 points] was no blow
out and neither was the Southern Vermont game [from last week's
Williams Invitational]. Now we've gotta go on the road to
play Framingham State on their own court on Tuesday and that'll be
another physical game."
Williams is slated to play at 7:30 Tuesday, as Coach Maker said,
against Framingham State.
