The Rollins College Tars got arguably their biggest win of the year Saturday when they knocked off Florida Southern 76-71 at Jenkins Field House. With the win the Tars completed a season sweep of the Mocs and won in Lakeland for the first time since 2007. With the win Rollins is alone a top the SSC with a 7-2 record and improves to 14-5 overall. The Mocs dropped to 12-6 and 5-4 in the league.
Five Rollins players scored in double figures on Saturday led by Jeremy Sharpe's 18 points. Chris Malcolm had 15 points and nine rebounds, while Dave Diakite added a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out with 2:30 minutes to go. Myk Brown and Scott Schuette netted 11 points each to round out the Tars double digit scorers. The Tars shot 46 percent for the game and hit 48 percent (10-21) of there 3-pointers. The Tars shot 69 percent from the foul line. They won the rebounding battle 38-31. The Tars had 13 assists and turned the ball over 22 times.
The Mocs were led by Kevin Capers who had a game high 30 points. Brett Bailey was the only other FSC player in double figures with 10. Southern shot 42 percent from the field and hit 6 of 25 from the 3-point line. Leading 3-point shooter Seth Evans was just 2-14 from the 3-point line and scored just eight points. The Mocs were 9-12 at the foul line and had 18 assists to go along with 15 turnovers.
The Tars jumped out to a 11-4 lead early before the Mocs answered. Rollins would lead 16-15 nearly nine minutes in. After a 3-pointer by Jeremy Sharpe FSC would go on a 7- run and lead 23-18. The Tars would answer and after Sharpe banked home a three at the buzzer they would lead 34-29.
Rollins would see that lead swell to 12 points (56-44) before FSC would go on a 14-0 run to retake the lead at 58-56. Scott Schuette would hit a three to give the Tars the lead. The lead would grow to five until a Cameron Vines old fashioned three point play would cut it to two (66-64) with 1:21 remaining. Myk Brown would make a lay up off a backdoor cut to give the Tars a four point lead late with 90 seconds to go. The Tars made 8 of 10 free throws to seal it late. The only bad news of the night for Rollins came early in the first half when Brett Chance dislocated his knee. He is out indefinitely.
The Tars will be back in action when they host the Spartans of Tampa Wednesday. Tip time is set for 7:30 PM. As always you can catch all the action on WPRK Winter Park and round the world at RollinsSports.com
Other SSC Scores:
Eckerd 58 Florida Tech 57
Barry 51 Nova Southeastern 50
Lynn 68 Tampa 59
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