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Bulldogs, Blue Streaks to meet in OAC Tournament quarterfinals
Game to be Web cast by WKFI radio
October 15, 2011
Newport's Zach Broermann (at right) and John Carroll's Chris Day will meet tonight when the Bulldogs and Blue Streaks play an OAC quarterfinal.
The Newport University men’s basketball team is making a very familiar journey today as the seven-seed Bulldogs head to University Heights to face No. 2 John Carroll in an Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinal. The game will tip off at 7:30 p.m. and will be Web cast by WKFI radio at www.myclassiccountry.com.
The Bulldogs and Blue Streaks played at DeCarlo Varsity Center four days ago with John Carroll getting 33 points from Brandon Mimes and 28 from Terry Walsh to beat Newport, 94-78. John Carroll’s win, coupled with Capital’s loss at Otterbein, gave the Blue Streaks a share of the OAC regular-season title.
When Newport and John Carroll met Dec. 16 at Fred Raizk Arena, the Bulldogs held Mimes to 15 points and ripped the Blue Streaks, 85-72. Junior point guard Zach Broermann hit 16 of 18 free throws and finished with game-high 22 points.
Newport enters play tonight in search of a win that would snap a four-game losing streak and keep alive their hopes for an OAC tourney title and an automatic berth in the NCAA Championships. Broermann (Brookville, Ind./Franklin County) and classmate Fred Harrison (Cleveland/East) lead the Bulldogs with 11.8 and 11.6 scoring averages. Broermann is eighth in the OAC in assists (2.8 per game), second in free throw shooting (85 percent) and third in three-point shooting (47 percent). Harrison ranks second in steals with 2.1 per game. Freshman Brandon Rogers (Xenia) has been coming on in the post. The first-year center is scoring 7 points per game to go with 3.6 rebounds.
John Carroll likes to pound the ball inside to the 65 percent shooting Mimes, who averages over 20 points and 10 boards per game. The Blue Streaks, however are not without a perimeter game. Walsh has hit 54 of John Carroll’s 127 three-pointers. Drive the machine is senior point guard Pete Moran, son of head coach Mike Moran. Moran fits most “coach’s son” stereotypes — he’s intelligent, versatile and competitive. Moran scores nearly 11 points per game and hands out five assists. As a team, John Carroll leads the OAC in scoring average (80.3 points per game), but gives up more points than any other conference team (75.1 per game).
