Millikin Gets Edge over Red Devils, 60-58
Final | 1 | 2 | T |
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Millikin (3-0,0-0 CCIW) | 25 | 35 | 60 |
Eureka (1-3,0-0 SLIAC) | 23 | 35 | 58 |
Final | 1 | 2 | T |
---|---|---|---|
Millikin (3-0,0-0 CCIW) | 25 | 35 | 60 |
Eureka (1-3,0-0 SLIAC) | 23 | 35 | 58 |
Millikin
Game Statistics | Millikin | Eureka |
---|---|---|
Field Goals | (24-58) | (22-60) |
Field Goal % | 41.4% | 36.7% |
Rebounds | 38 | 38 |
Assists | 8 | 11 |
Turnovers | 13 | 10 |
Pts off Turnovers | 13 | 12 |
2nd Chance Pts | 10 | 4 |
Pts in the Paint | 34 | 28 |
Fastbreak Pts | 11 | 6 |
Bench Pts | 24 | 7 |
Millikin
Eureka
Game Statistics | Millikin | Eureka |
---|---|---|
Field Goals | (24-58) | (22-61) |
Field Goal % | 41.4% | 36.1% |
Rebounds | 39 | 38 |
Assists | 8 | 11 |
Turnovers | 13 | 11 |
Pts off Turnovers | 13 | 12 |
2nd Chance Pts | 10 | 4 |
Pts in the Paint | 34 | 28 |
Fastbreak Pts | 11 | 6 |
Bench Pts | 24 | 7 |
EUREKA – The Eureka men's basketball team went down to the wire against Millikin on Thursday and came up just short.
The Big Blue held off the Red Devils for a 60-58 win at Christine Bonati Bollwinkle Arena and Convocation Center.
Eureka's Austyn Ellison (Hudson, Ill./Bloomington Central Catholic) scored a team-high 22 points on 9-of-20 shooting from the field and 3-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc. He also had three assists and four rebounds.
Logan Dorethy (Hamilton, Ill./West Hancock/Hannibal-LaGrange) added 14 points and eight rebounds. Cody Baer (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap/Southwestern Illinois) followed with eight points and four rebounds while battling foul trouble. Andrew Gonazalez (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) pulled down eight boards in 22 minutes off the bench.
Millikin big man Frazier Ott led the Big Blue with a team-high 14 points and nine rebounds in 21 minutes off the bench. Guards Noah Livingston and JT Welch added 13 and 12 points, respectively.
Eureka spent a good portion of the game trying to close a small gap.
The Red Devils led early but trailed by seven midway through the first half.
A three-point play by Dorethy gave the home team a one-point edge with less than five minutes until halftime, and two Eureka steals and buckets later, the Red Devils led by four.
Millikin, however, recovered, closing the half on a 9-2 run that made it 25-23 at the break.
The Big Blue maintained a slim lead until a major 3-pointer by Ellison knotted the game at 50-50 with 3:35 to play.
When the visitors extended the lead back to six with 1:22 left, Ben Carter (Morton, Ill./Morton) and Ellison hit 3s on back-to-back possessions.
In between the big shots, though, Frazier slipped to the basket for a dunk off a feed by Demarcus Bond to keep Eureka from tying it up again.
With 13.5 seconds left, the Red Devils fouled to stop the clock and Millikin's Drake Stevenson made 1 of 2 to make it 59-56.
Eureka called timeout and got a good look on the next possession. Ellison received the ball from Noah Persich (Peoria, Ill./Metamora/Parkland College) on the elbow, curled around a Gonzalez screen and went up in the air with two defenders in his face. Mid-air, he turned and found Gonzalez on the right elbow. Gonzalez got a shot off with less than five seconds remaining, but it bounced off the rim and the backboard. Persich followed it and tipped it back in to make it a one-point game, but there were only 1.1 seconds left on the clock.
It was only enough time to send Millikin to the line for the last time, and Livingston made 1 of 2 free throws to end it.
Eureka (1-3) will look to bounce back against Rockford (2-0) on the road on Saturday at 7 p.m.