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Wabash College Athletics

Reis Thomas
93
Winner Wabash WABM 5-4
88
Ohio Wesleyan OWUM 3-5
Winner
Wabash WABM
5-4
93
Final
88
Ohio Wesleyan OWUM
3-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wabash WABM 48 45 93
Ohio Wesleyan OWUM 43 45 88

Game Recap: Basketball |

Hot Shooting Provides Two-Game Sweep Over OWU

Wabash shot 61.5 percent from the field and had three players score 20 or more points on Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan University. The Little Giants needed every basket to secure a 93-88 victory and a two-game series sweep over the Battling Bishops.
 
Wabash (5-4) connected on 32 of its 52 shot attempts in the ball game, including an 8-of-15 effort from beyond the three-point arc. Tyler Watson paced Wabash with 22 points. Kellen Schreiber, fresh off his double-double Thursday evening in the Little Giant's 65-55 win over OWU (3-5), scored 21 points. Reis Thomas added a career-best 20 points.
 
Schreiber, Watson, and Thomas were hitting nearly every shot they took. Schreiber made 9-of-11 attempts while Thomas finished 7-of-9 from the field. Watson hit 7-of-12 shot attempts including three of his five three-point attempts.
 
Ohio Wesleyan answered nearly every Wabash basket, shooting 60.0 percent from the field by connecting on 32-of-58 shot attempts. OWU shot 50-percent from three-point range (13-of-26).
 
Wabash hit its first 10 shots of the game before missing a layup with 11:39 left to play in the first half. The Little Giants finished the first half shooting 69.2 percent from the field (18-of-26) but were unable to pull away significantly from Ohio Wesleyan. The Battling Bishops shot 50-percent from the field in the opening period on 15-of-25 attempts and never let the Little Giants get further ahead than nine points on two different occasions.
 
After leading 48-43 at halftime Wabash tried once again to put OWU away. Two baskets by Schreiber to open the second half increased the lead to nine points once again before the Bishops mounted a scoring run. Ohio Wesleyan took a one-point lead at 60-59 on a Curtis White three-point basket with 13:52 left to play in the game. Wabash tied the game at 60-60 with a free throw and retook the lead on a three-pointer by Avery Beaver.
 
Ohio Wesleyan tied the game three more times, the last at 86-86 with 1:18 remaining. Thomas put the Little Giants in front for good with a layup and Watson iced the game with a three-point basket with 19 seconds left. Two free throws for Watson in the closing seconds answered a basket by White to produce the final five-point victory.
 
Wabash picked up most of its scoring in the paint with 44 of its 93 points coming within a few feet of the basket. The Little Giants scored eight fast-break points while keeping the Battling Bishops from scoring in quick transitions throughout the contest.
 
Grant Spicer led Ohio Wesleyan with 17 points. Ryan Sheridan came off the bench to score 14 points. White chipped in 13 points for the Bishops.
 
Wabash will play a two-game set against DePauw this week, beginning with a home contest on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at Chadwick Court.
 
 
 
 
 
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