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RADFORD, Va. – Seniors
Art Parakhouski (Minsk, Belarus) and
Joey Lynch-Flohr (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax) registered double-doubles together for the fourth straight game, and Radford rolled to a 94-70 win over Lynchburg College at the Dedmon Center on Tuesday night.
Dating back to Radford's (2-0) win over VMI in the Big South tournament championship game last March, the frontcourt tandem has hit double figures in points and rebounds in each of the last four games.
Parakhouski scored 31 points, including 16 in the first half, to go along with his 17 rebounds. The 6-11 center hit on 15-of-22 shots from the field and added four blocks.
Lynch-Flohr delivered 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting and hauled in 12 rebounds.
“Joey and I just try and work as hard as we can,” Parakhouski said. “We try to be leaders on this team and try and motivate our young guys by doing what we're doing.”
“I think it's definitely been essential for us,” Lynch-Flohr said of his work alongside Parahouski. “It's about getting it done when Art gets the ball or when I get the ball, and really focusing on hitting the boards. If the streak dated back to the Big South tournament, than it's definitely been huge for our team.”
“Those two are our horses, and we're going to ride them,” head coach Brad Greenberg said. “Our game plan is not complicated – we want to get them the ball, and establish our inside presence.
The Highlanders shot better than 50 percent from the floor (.532) and made 80 percent (24-of-30) of their tries at the free throw line.
Three other players hit double figures for Radford –
Phillip Martin (Roanoke, Va./Roanoke Catholic) scored 13, and
Jeremy Robinson (Baltimore, Md./Northwestern) and
Blake Smith (Charlotte, N.C./United Faith Christian) had 10 points each.
“We had some nice balance with five guys in double figures tonight,” Greenberg said. “Again, more guys got experience, including our freshmen and Jeremy. For those guys, it's good to get those minutes under your belt.”
KC Mendez scored 14 points for the Division III Hornets (1-1), going 3-for-5 from three-point range. Michael Wims added 13 on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.
Lynchburg stuck with the Highlanders early in the first half, scoring the game's first points and later trimming Radford's lead to three on back-to-back Wims baskets that made it 16-13 at the 11:56 mark, part of a short 9-1 run.
Parakhouski's dunk less than a minute later opened up the game for the Highlanders, starting a 21-3 scoring string that put the Hornets away. Lynch-Flohr capped Radford's long run with a basket that gave the Highlanders a 37-16 lead with 4:16 remaining in the first half.
Radford shot 52 percent from the field and 40 percent from the three-point line, en route to a 49-29 lead at the intermission.
The Hornets hit on 9-of-13 field goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half and got as close as 15, at 73-58 on Josh Caldwell's layup.
Radford puts its nine-game road winning streak, the second-longest in the nation, on the line Saturday, when the Highlanders travel to No. 8/9 Duke for the first time in school history. Radford last met the Blue Devils in the first round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament.