Rollins Bench Provides Spark in Win At Saint Leo Saturday.

The Rollins Tars won for just the second time in the last seven games, getting a 77-72 road win at the Marion Bowman Activities Center on Saturday night. The win was the Tars first win at Saint Leo since 2014. With the win Rollins improves to 9-8 and 3-5 in the SSC. In a losing effort the Lions dropped to 7-10 overall and 2-6 in the SSC.
  Connor McKim led three Tars in double figures with 15 points- Joey Galvis netted 13- while Nils Lehmann scored a career high 11 points in 20 minutes of action.  The Tars shot 46 percent as a team. This included shooting 50 percent (11-22) from the 3-point line.  The Tars shot 74 percent (20-27) at the free throw line.  They had 11 assists and 12 turnovers.
  Saint Leo was paced by Marcus Dewberry who lead all scorers with a game high 33 points.  Dewberry buried nine 3-pointer's in the contest- Justin Satchell added nine points in the loss. Antoine Tobias led the Lions with eight rebounds- while Dewberry and Tyreece Brice shared the team lead with four assists.  The Lions shot 44 percent as a team. They went 13-32 (41 percent) from the 3-point line and shot 69 percent (11-16) from the free throw line.  The Lions edged Rollins in the rebounding battle 31-30.  They had 20 assists and 14 turnovers.
  The Lions got off to a good start and led 10-5 five minutes into this one.  The Tars would then go on a 14-0 run sparked by a Galvis 3-pointer and a trio of 3-pointers by Jack Fleming to give them a four point lead (19-15.)  The Tars were able to maintain the lead the rest of the first half and took a five point lead (35-30) into the locker room.
  The first four minutes of the second half so the Tars go on a 12-3 run and they would open up a 14 point lead (47-33.)  The lead remained at 14 until the Lions went on a six point run to cut the lead to eight (57-49) at the midway point of the second half.  The Tars would stretch the lead to 11(68-57) after a trio of Lehmann free throws and a McKim 3-pointer at the 6:40 mark. The Lions would make one last run and get to within four (75-71) with 1:26 to go but the Tars would hang on for the victory.
  Rollins will be back in action Wednesday night when they take on Lynn in Winter Park. Tip time at Warden Arena is set for 730 PM.  You can catch all the action on the Geico Tars Sports Network at RollinsSports.com and on 91.5 FM WPRK Winter Park.
Other SSC Scores:
Florida Tech 76 Palm Beach Atlantic 73
Barry 86 Embry-Riddle 80
Lynn 90 Tampa 85 (OT)
Florida Southern 87 Eckerd 79
SSC Standings:
Barry 7-1 (14-1)
Eckerd 5-3 (12-4)
Tampa 5-3 (12-5)
Lynn 5-3 (10-5)
Florida Southern 5-4 (7-10)
Florida Tech 4-4 (11-6)
Rollins 3-5 (9-8)
*Palm Beach Atlantic 3-6 (7-9)
Nova Southeastern 2-6 (5-10)
Saint Leo 2-7 (7-10)
*Embry-Riddle 0-0 (9-6)
* indicates provisional SSC member