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(Nov. 12, 2007) –
UC Riverside suffered a 79-58 defeat to the University of
Texas - Arlington Monday night in Arlington, TX. Senior Larry
Cunningham led UCR with a game-high 22 points and Junior Severin
Gates added a career-high 15 points in the losing effort as
the Highlanders dropped to 0-2 on the young season.
It was the turnovers that
did UCR in for the second game in a row, allowing the Mavericks
(1-0) to score 30 points off of 21 turnovers. Cunningham and
Gates were the loan bright spots for the Highlanders as the
two combined to shoot 10-for-12 (45.5%) from the floor and
14-for-16 (88%) from the line. The Highlanders as a team took
advantage of the charity stripe, making 18-of-23 (78.3%) on
a night.
The Highlanders opened the game with a 10-2 run and held the
lead for most of the half. Rod Epps’s three-pointer
for the Mavericks gave UTA their first lead, 21-18 at the
6:56 mark. UCR cut the Maverick lead to 32-28 with five seconds
left in the half, after a Gates jumper and two Cunningham
free-throws. Brandon Long answered to give the Mavericks a
34-28 lead at the break. Long went the length of the floor
and got his jumper to fall as the buzzer went off.
UTA opened the second half
with a 19-5 run before junior Aaron Scott’s jumper and
two more Cunningham free-throws cut the Maverick lead to 53-37
with just under 13 minutes remaining. UTA continued to answer
any type of Highlander runs and opened the lead back up to
20 shortly after the eight minute mark and never looked back.
The Mavericks shot 17-for-29 (58.9%) in the second half and
finished the night with four players in double figures in
points. Jermaine Griffin led the Mavericks with 16 points
and 14 rebounds.
UCR shot 18-47 (38.3%) from
the floor and 4-15 (26.7%) from beyond the arc. UTA shot 30-for-53
(56.6%) on the night and committed 14 turnovers that the Highlanders
turned into 16 points. Sophomore Sean Cunningham led UCR with
eight boards and Aaron Scott added eight points for the Highlanders.
UCR continues it’s
10-day road trip to open season with two stops up in Washington.
Thursday the team travels to Cheney, WA to play Eastern Washington
University at 7:45 p.m. then on to Spokane, WA to square off
with #14 Gonzaga on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
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