CCC 74-70 over Word of Life

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Plattsburgh-The CCC Men's basketball opened their season with a win over Word Of Life 74-70.

"In the past with this team (Word of Life), there have been some routs. That's not what we needed to get ready for North Country on Thursday and we got pretty much what we needed out of tonight's game,"Head Men's Coach Kevin Daugherty said.

"They gave us all we could handle. They were big and aggressive on the glass."

Clinton led most of the way and at one time had a 10-point spread. Clinton trailed 42-41 at halftime

"We had some nice runs in the first half, but then we committed some silly fouls that stopped any momentum we had," Daugherty went on.

"The main adjustment we talked about at halftime was to stop their perimeter people from penetrating. Once we were able to do that with consistency, we were able to control play. But they were still right there."

"We had 10 kids score for us in a close game and I was happy about that," Daugherty acknowledged.

Shareem Hardy scored 18 points and Anthony Hodge had 14 points. Julio Garcia had 15 rebounds. Sharief Saunders had five steals.

Jared Joseph netted 19 points, Steve Martin added 18 and Charles Lewis, 14, to lead Word of Life.

Clinton will host North Country Community College at 7 p.m. Thursday.