WHITE NETS 1,000 CAREER POINTS AS SETTERS
WIN THIRD IN A ROW
PACE DEFEATS SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT 85-73
PLEASANTVILLE, NY - Pace senior guard Gibraltar White (Gautier, MS/Gautier) became the 30th player in school history and the second this season to surpass the 1,000 point barrier as he netted a career-best and game-high 26 to lead the Setters past the Owls of Southern Connecticut 85-73. The Setters have won three in a row and move their record over the .500 mark at 7-6 and improve to 6-2 in the Northeast-10, while Southern Connecticut drops to 4-8 and 1-7 in conference play.
Southern Connecticut came out shooting well to open the game and got up on the Setters early building an 18-8 lead seven minutes into the game. The Setters battled back to tie the score at 28 as Ryan Williams (Centreville, VA/Paul VI) knocked down a pair of free throws. The Owls would retake the lead, pushing their advantage back to seven points with 1:49 left in the half. Pace rallied with a basket and a free throw by Desmond Quincy-Jones (Rye, NY/Rye) and capped by a buzzer beating coast-to-coast lay-up by Laurence McGhee (Linden, NJ/Linden). For the half, Pace shot 11-for-33 (33.3%), while Southern Connecticut shot 15-for-28 (53.6%) but only led the Setters by two at the break.
The team exchanged baskets over the first four and half minutes of the second half that saw three ties. The Setters would take control of the game as they trailed by four with 15:33 left in the game as newly enshrined 1,000-point club member White nailed a trifecta, kicking off a 21-4 Setter run over a 5:53 stretch that put Pace up 11 with nine minutes to go. White led the way with seven points in the run, while Randy Wilson (Peekskill, NY/Peekskill) and Jon Jones (Dover, NH/Bridgton Academy) each totaled six points in the game-deciding run. The Setters would never surrender their double-digit lead the rest of the way as posted their third straight win.
For Pace, White's career-high 26 points led the Setters, shooting 4-for-7 from downtown and was a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe. Quincy-Jones posted his second consecutive double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, while McGhee added 13 points and three assists. Williams tallied 11 points, five boards, four assists and three steals. Jones chipped in 12 points and five caroms off the bench.
For Southern Connecticut, Preston Bell finished with 18 points, four boards and five assists, while Justin Gardenhire totaled 12 points and three assists. Ktrice McNeill tallied 10 points and seven boards, while John Mazzarella grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.
Pace returns to action when they host the Bulldogs of Bryant
University on Thursday, January 10 in a Northeast-10 Conference
clash at the Goldstein Fitness Center scheduled for a 7:30 pm
tip-off.