Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics
Robert Morris
Pioneers Upend Robert Morris, 73-60
1/19/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 19, 2006
FAIRFIELD, CT - Senior center Kibwe Trim (23 pts., 10 rebs.) and junior forward Jarrid Frye (16 pts., 12 rebs.) recorded double-doubles to lead the Sacred Heart University men's basketball team to a 73-60 win over visiting Robert Morris University in a Northeast Conference men's basketball game Thursday night.
The loss was the first for the year for the Colonials in Conference play, dropping them to 5-1, while Sacred Heart improved to 5-2 in the NEC.
A Colson Senat three with 9:28 to play in the first half put Robert Morris up 20-18. It would be the last lead the Colonials would have. A trey by sophomore guard Drew Shubik for the Pioneers with 6:27 left in the period gave the Pioneers a 25-22 advantage. They would push it to eight at 30-22 with 3:56 to go on a Trim layup, and held on to a 34-31 lead at the intermission.
Shubik and Trim led SHU in the first half with nine points and the Pioneers totally dominated the boards at both ends of the floor.
The one concern for the Pioneers in the half was that point guard Tavio Hobson had to leave the game with a badly cut lip with 6:21 after banging heads with Robert Morris guard Derek Coleman. He wouldn't return for the rest of the half and started the second half in the locker room being stitched up.
When Hobson trotted back on to the floor a couple of minutes into the second half, his team was clinging to a 40-34 lead. The Pioneers then went on a 13-2 run with their captain back in the game and ran out to a 53-36 bulge and the Colonials would never seriously challenge again.
Robert Morris finished just six of 28 from three-point range (21.4%) in the game and was out-rebounded by the Pioneers 39-27. The Colonials were led by sophomore guard Tony Lee with 17 points, while freshman guard Jeremy Chappell chipped in with 15. Junior AJ Jackson, who came in as the league's leading rebounder, was held to ten points and just three rebounds.
The double-double for Trim was his eighth of the season, tying him for the Northeast Conference lead with Jackson of Robert Morris. It was the third time Frye has accomplished that feat, and the second time he has done it in the same game with Trim.
The Pioneers, now 8-8 overall, will play at home again on Saturday at 4 p.m. against St. Francis (PA) as the second half of a doubleheader with the women's team.
