Tars Hang Tough, Fall 95-74 To FSU.

The Rollins College Tars started the 2010-11 campaign with a 95-74 exhibition loss to the Florida State Seminoles at the Donald L.Tucker Center in Tallahassee Wednesday night. The Tars were led by three players in double figures. Matt Robertson paced the Tars with 19 points to go along with 8 rebounds on 9 of 13 shooting. Nikola Baran nailed 4 three pointers and netted 17 points. Nick Wolf posted 15 points to go along with 8 rebounds for Rollins.
  The Tars got off to a sluggish start in the early going. Florida State would miss the first three shots they would attempt but would get three offensive rebounds before a three pointer finally fell for Devidas Dulkys.  The Noles would score the next 4 points to make it 7-0 as Tom Klusman would get a early timeout. The Tars would get a bucket from  "downtown" Myk Brown off the timeout that would make it 7-3. The Noles would then go on another 17-4 run that would make it 24-7 for the Seminoles. Chris Singleton led FSU with 22 points while Okaro White would tally 17 off the bench. FSU's lead would balloon to 20 at 33-13 with seven minutes left in the first half. The 17th ranked Tars would get back within 12 at 37-25 on a barrage of three pointers. Nikola Baran would hit a pair of treys, Brett Chance added one and Ian Scott would bury a trifecta but FSU would steal the momentum back before the intermission. It would be 48-32 in favor of the Seminoles going into the halftime break.
  The Tars would settle down and play a very sold second half. Four times the Tars would get within 12 only to have the Noles hit a trey on each occassion. Matt Robertson would get a put back to go and RC would be within 11 at 62-51 with 12 minutes to go. That would be as close as the Tars would get.
  FSU would win the battle of the boards 36-31. The Noles shot 57 percent from the field while the Tars shot 45 percent. The Tars had 18 turnovers which cost them 25 points. RC also forced 17 FSU miscues. The Tars will open the regular season next Friday November 12th in the Valdosta Tip Off Classic where they will face Delta State on Friday. As always you can catch all the action on 91.5 WPRK Winter Park as well as www.rollinssports.tv as Jim "Shooter" Ferro and Nate Weyant will have the call.