Cold Shooting Tars Fall To Bears.

The Rollins College Tars came into Sunday's title game of the 38th annual Winter Park Rotary Tangerine Tournament looking to win the team's first tournament title since 2008 and get coach Tom Klusman his 599th career win. The Tars would fall 79-66 though.
  Rollins (8-2) saw it's eight game win streak snapped largely in part due to the fact that they only shot 39 percent (20-51) from the floor and going 9-24 from the 3-point line. Dave Diakite capped off a good weekend for him with 20 points and six rebounds. The UCF transfer was named to All-Tournament team. Kyle McClanahan was also a member of the All-Tournament team. He had 10 points on the afternoon. Adam Allen came off the bench to score 11 for the Tars. The Tars turned the ball over 10 times and struggled at the foul line shooting 63 percent (17-27.)
   Shaw(6-4) brought the tournament title to North Carolina by shooting 50 percent from the floor and nailing 55 percent (11-20) from the 3-point line. Taurus Dortch paced the Bears with 23 points on the afternoon.  Karron Johnson had another monster game with 17 points, nine rebounds, eight assists and two blocks. Johnson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Latrail McCoy was also on the All-Tournament Team, he put up 15 points and five rebounds in the title game. The Bears won the rebounding battle 32-31. They turned the ball over 10 times and made 76 percent (16-21) from the foul line.
  The Tars got off to a quick start and led 11-3 after a Mitch Woods 3-pointer three minutes in. The Bears would then turn up the defensive intensity, force some bad shots by the Tars and get a few turnovers to go on a 25-5 run to take a 28-16 lead.
  The Bears would lead by as many as 16 (37-21) in the opening half. The lead would be 41-27 at the intermission.
  The Bears would stretch the lead to 17 early in the second half, then the Tars would later go on a 9-2 spurt to cut the lead to 58-52 with 11:42 to go.
  The Bears would stretch the lead back out to 11 before the Tars would again get to within six (64-58) with 5:26 to go. The Tars would not get any closer than six the rest of the way and see the win streak snapped at eight.
  The Tars will look to bounce back on Saturday when they battle 12-0 and 22nd ranked Tampa at the Bob Martinez Center. Tip time is set for 4 PM. As always you can catch all the action on RollinsSports.com and WPRK in Winter Park.