Men's Basketball Closes Out Home Schedule with 74-59 Loss to Bentley
Manchester and Dozier honored on Senior Day festivities
RINDGE, N.H. (February 19, 2011) -- The Franklin Pierce
University men's basketball team closed out its 2010-11 home
schedule on Saturday afternoon with a 74-59 setback to Bentley at
The Fieldhouse in Rindge. The Ravens fell to 6-20 overall and 4-17
in the Northeast-10, while the Falcons improved to 19-6 and 17-4 in
league play.
In his final game at The
Fieldhouse, senior guard Jeff Manchester (Gorham,
Maine) pumped in a team-high 16 points for the Ravens,
including knocking down 4-of-5 shots from behind the arc. Freshman
forward Adrianos Vourliotakis-Perdikaris (Cholargos,
Athens) narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and
nine rebounds, and junior guard Dayshawn Long (New York,
N.Y.) came off the bench to toss in eight points, while
handing out four assists.
Brian Tracey led a trio of Bentley players scoring in
double-figures, as he tossed in 17 points on 7-of-17 shooting from
the floor. Mike Quinn added 16 points, and in the process went over
1,000 points for his career. Dan O'Keefe was Bentley's other
double-digit scorer with 10 points off the bench.
The Falcons shot 43 percent (28-of-65) from the field, while
holding Franklin Pierce to just 39 percent shooting (24-of-61).
Bentley also held a 44-36 advantage on the boards.
With the exception of two brief ties in the opening minutes of the
game, Bentley never trailed at any point in the game and built a
43-22 lead heading into the locker room at halftime.
The Falcons continued their hot shooting in the opening stages of
the second half and eventually went up by 31 at 59-28 with 13:59 to
go following a triple from Tracey.
The Ravens tried to battle back throughout the remaining minutes of
the game and did pull to within 15 at 70-55 with 1:52 remaining
following back-to-back three-pointers from Manchester. However,
that was as close as Franklin Pierce would get as Bentley hung on
for the victory.
Prior to the game, Manchester and classmate Kinard Dozier
(Dedham, Mass.) were honored during Senior Day festivities
as the pair's career accomplishments were highlighted for the large
crowd on hand. Both players are 1,000-point scorers in their
careers, including Dozier who will enter Wednesday's regular season
finale needing just eight points to move into the top-10 in program
history for career scoring. He currently stands at 1,432 points.
Dozier also ranks among the top-11 in school history in career
rebounding, steals and assists. Manchester topped the scoring
milestone in last Saturday's 85-67 win over Saint Anselm, thus
becoming the 28th player in program history to do so.
Franklin Pierce closes out its season Wednesday night when the
Ravens travel to face UMass-Lowell at 7:30 p.m.
For more information on Franklin Pierce men's basketball, please
visit the team's page at athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) To follow
the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on
YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports), Twitter
(www.twitter.com/FPUathletics) and Facebook
(www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceAthletics).