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Broncos Defeat Falcons, 72-63
January 24, 2007 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 24, 2007
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Bowling Green, Ohio - Western Michigan's Shawntes Gary scored 24 points including the go-ahead basket with 3:13 remaining as the visiting Broncos defeated BGSU, 72-63, at Anderson Arena, Wednesday night. WMU is now 9-10 and 4-2 in the league, while BGSU is 10-9 and 1-5.
The Bronco win spoiled a career-high night for Falcon sophomore Erik Marschall. The New London, Ohio native had a career-high 19 points and tied the school record by making all eight of his field goal attempts in the game. That performance tied Brent Klassen who went eight for eight in a 2002 home game against Marshall.
The Falcons led the entire first half and led 30-22 when sophomore Nate Miller rebounded a missed Marschall free throw and hit a jumper with 2:53 to go in the first half. The Broncos outscored BGSU 9-2 the rest of the half and the Falcons went into the locker room with a 32-31 edge at intermission
The game was back and forth for most of the second half. The Falcons built a 47-42 lead with 11:12 to go when senior Martin Samarco hit a pair of technical free throws and Miller added two additional charity tosses.
The Broncos came back to tie the game and BGSU held its last lead at 51-49 with 7:20 to go. Gary would give WMU back the lead when he hit a runner with 6:18 left on a runner.
Trailing 58-53 with just over four minutes to go, Samarco drained a triple to cut the lead to two and sophomore Dusan Radivojevic tied the game at 59-59 with 3:36 to go.
Gary then drove the ball inside and banked in a shot with 3:13 to go and following a missed three-pointer by Radivojevic as the shot clock was winding down, David Kool grabbed a rebound for WMU and was fouled. He hit two free throws and the closest BGSU could come after that was at 65-61 with 1:54 to go.
For the Falcons, Miller played a career-high 40 minutes and had 16 points and nine rebounds.
BGSU will play at Central Michigan at 7 p.m., Saturday, January 27.
