The Barry Buccaneers were one of the best offensive teams all season long and were picked to win the Sunshine State Conference. The Bucs showed why in a 107-92 win over the Rollins Tars at Spragins Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama-Huntsville Saturday afternoon.
With the loss Rollins season comes to a close at 21-9. Barry advances to the South Region Second Round with a record of 24-6. The Bucs will face the Bulldogs of Union College (TN.) on Sunday.
Barry was led as they have been all year by Yunio Barrueta who scored 22 points. Barrueta spent much of the first half on the bench in foul trouble but the Conference Player of The Year in the SSC still nearly got his average in 26 minutes of action- he was one of six Barry players in double figures. Undra Mitchem netted 18-Anders Haas scored 17- Arie Williams continued to torment Rollins as he has all year with 16- Tray Leonard just missed a double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds. Elvis Fridrkisson the SSC Newocmer of the Year added 13 points to go along with six assists. The Bucs shot 60 percent (35-58) as a team in the victory- they went 16-31 (51 percent from the 3-point line-) The Bucs also shot 81 percent (21-26) at the free throw line. The Bucs dominated the rebounding battle 35-18. They had 20 second chance points in the contest. The Bucs had 22 assists and 15 turnovers.
The Tars were paced by Sam Philpott who finished out his outstanding season with 20 points- Sharif Almulla added 18 in his final game in a Rollins uniform- Jeff Merton also scored in double figures with 11. The Tars shot 56 percent (30-54) as a team- they were a solid 52 percent (13-25) from the 3-point line. The Tars shot at a 83 percent clip (19-23) at the free throw line. The Tars had 20 assists and turned the ball over 14 times.
Jeff Merton buried a 3-pointer on the first Tars possession to open the score. After that though it would be a 13-3 Barry run where they would get everyone involved in the scoring to take a 13-6 lead. The Tars would see the deficit grow to nine before a Deion Clark old fashioned 3-point play would cut the Barry lead to six (25-19) at the 13:07 mark.
Barry would answer as they did all day. This time it was a 10-2 spurt that would give the Bucs a 14 point lead (31-17) at the 10:50 mark of the opening half. The Tars would score the next six points and looked to be in good shape to get back in this one when Barrueta picked up his second foul at the 10:02 mark. Players like Haas, Williams and Leonard would step up though and the Bucs would maintain a 13 point lead (52-39) with Barrueta on the bench. The Bucs went 11-19 from the 3-point line in the opening half. The Tars had eight turnovers to compound things.
The second half would begin with neither team scoring in the first couple of minutes. The Tars would get to within 12 at the 16:11 mark but Barry would stretch the lead back out to 22 (73-51) at the 13 minute mark. The Tars would get to within 14 at the 7:35 mark but that is as close as they would get in what would be the final game in a Tars uniform for Alex Blessig, Kyle Koszuta, James Ferrell, and Almulla.
Other South Region Scores:
Union (TN) 88 Eckerd 85 (OT)
Alabama Huntsville 98 Saint Leo 81
Stillman 85 West Georgia 79
South Region Semis Sunday:
#3 Barry 74 #7 Union (TN) 65
#1 Alabama Hunstville 81 #5 Stillman 71
South Regional Final Tuesday:
#3 Barry 87 #1 Alabama-Hunstsville 83
DII Quarterfinals Wednesday 3/23:
Lincoln Memorial 93 Barry 75
West Liberty 75 Stonehill 74
Augustana (SD) 86 Tarleton State 79
Western Oregon 81 Saginaw Valley 68
DII Semifinals Thursday 3/24:
Lincoln Memorial 103 West Liberty 102
Augustana (SD) 74 Western Oregon 55
DII Championship Game 3/26:
Augustana (SD) vs Lincoln Memorial
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