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60
Catawba CATM 0-2
68
Winner Radford RAD 2-1
Catawba CATM
0-2
60
Final
68
Radford RAD
2-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Catawba CATM 27 33 60
Radford RAD 28 40 68

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

BENCH PLAY PROPELS RADFORD PAST CATAWBA, 68-60



GAME INFORMATION
  • Score: Radford 68, Catawba 60
  • Records: Radford (2-1) | Catawba (0-2)
  • Location: Dedmon Center | Radford, Va.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • The Radford men's basketball team used a strong final 12 minutes to pull away for a 68-60 victory over Catawba Wednesday night inside the Dedmon Center, extending its streak of home-opening wins to 13 straight.
  • The Highlanders outscored their pesky opponent, 30-19, over the final 11:31 to claim their 32nd consecutive win over a non-Division I opponent.
  • Trailing 41-38, Radford put together an 11-2 run to take control as YaYa Anderson and Cameron Jones hit 3-pointers, Jones followed with a fast-break dunk and another trey by Taj Owens made it 49-41.
  • Catawba got as close as 53-50 with 4:48 to play, but the Highlanders scored the next seven points on a dunk by Darius Bolstad, a 3-point play by Owens and a fast-break layup by Rashun Davis. That gave RU its biggest lead of the game at 60-50.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Owens, Ed Polite, Jr. and Bolstad each posted career highs in scoring and were part of a huge effort by the Highlander bench. The trio combined to shoot 11 of 18 from the field for 29 points.
  • Owens scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half, surpassing his previous high of 11 against Howard last season. He was 4 for 8 from the field in the game and also grabbed five rebounds.
  • Polite, Jr. finished with 10 points and also set a career high with seven rebounds, tying for team-high honors.
  • Bolstad also had his best game as a Highlander, totaling seven points, seven rebounds, two assists and two blocks. All of that production, except for two of the points and one of the rebounds, came during his 14 minutes of action in the second half.
  • In all, Radford got 36 points in the game from its non-starters, compared to just 14 for Catawba.
  • A total of seven Highlanders scored at least seven points as Jones finished with nine, Justin Cousin had eight and Davis and Sterling Christy each chipped in seven.
  • After struggling from the field in the first half, Radford hit on 46 percent (13 for 28) of its attempts from the field in the second stanza to finish at 38 percent for the game.
  • Brandon Holcomb recorded two blocks to move into fourth place on the program's all-time list with 117.
  • Freshman Christian Lutete hit his first shot of the game off the bench, giving him five made attempts in a row going back to the VCU game, with four of them 3-pointers.
  • Catawba outscored Radford, 38-26, in the paint and 25-17 on second-chance points to stay with the Highlanders for most of the game.
  • Malik Constantine scored a game-high 18 points for the Indians.
 
QUOTABLE
  • "I didn't like the way we came out in the first half without energy and allowed them to have some confidence. They already believed they were going to win coming into the game, and we knew that. But we allowed them to have even more confidence the way we started the game. Luckily, we had some great contributions off the bench. The guys that came in gave us a spark and gave us a lot of toughness in the paint, which we really needed. I knew it was going to be hard-fought. I think everybody else maybe thought it was going to be a little easier than that, but I understand our team is young." ~ Radford head coach Mike Jones
 
UP NEXT
  • Radford returns to the road for a pair of games Friday and Saturday in Smithfield, R.I., as part of the 2K Classic.
  • The Highlanders will take on Siena, Friday at 4 p.m., and then face either host Bryant or Prairie View A&M on Saturday.

 
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