WALTHAM, Mass. – Junior forward Alex White Jr. (Middletown, Conn.) became the fourth member of the Concordia College New York men's basketball team to record 50-plus blocks in a career on Saturday evening, rejecting three shots against Bentley University in a 97-56 setback.
NOTES
• Concordia falls to 0-2.
• Bentley improves to 2-0.
• One of the premiere defenders in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) last season, ending the 2018-19 campaign with the fourth-highest blocks per game average in the league at 1.5, sits fourth in the program record book with 51 career blocks.
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
• Senior guard Brandon Fields (Washington, D.C.) scored a team-high 13 points on 5-9 shooting with two assists.
• White Jr. pulled down a team-high seven rebounds on top of his team-high three rejections.
• Sophomore forward Devon Sims (Centreville, Va.) chipped in 10 points with a pair of steals.
• Senior guard Jesse Breeding (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) scored 11 points off the bench.
• For Bentley, Chris Hudson scored 21 points with eight rebounds while Jordan Mello-Klein recorded nine assists.
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Bentley scored on its opening possession of the contest, with the Clippers responding behind a 5-2 stretch off baskets from Fields and Sims to take a 5-4 lead with 17:23 left in the half.
• The host used an 8-1 stretch to pull ahead 12-6 with 14:21 left in the half.
• Back-to-back baskets from Fields and Sims made it a one-possession contest at 12-10, but an 8-0 retort by Bentley created a 20-10 score with 10:16 remaining in the half
• Concordia countered with back-to-back triples from freshman guard Dan Porcic (Putnam, Conn.) and Fields, with the Clippers keeping the separation in single digits before a 4-0 spree by Bentley made it 31-20 with 5:43 remaining.
• Bentley ended the half on a 12-4 run to create a 43-24 score.
• White Jr. responded to Bentley's opening basket of the second half with a layup after Fields connected on a free throw in the opening minute to make it 45-27, only for a 15-0 run by the host creating a 60-27 score with 13:53 remaining in the contest.
• Senior forward Anthony Barnes (Bowie, Md.) ended the run on a layup, with Breeding connecting on a three-pointer before a pair of Bentley free throws made it 62-32 with 12:58 left to play.
• The two sides split the ensuing 10 points before a 16-6 stretch for the Falcons creating an 81-41 score with 6:35 left to play.
• Neither side connected on back-to-back baskets over the following five minutes of play, with a Breeding triple and junior guard Louis-Roger Fils-Aime (Paris, France) jumper making it 92-55 with 1:24 left in the contest.
• Redshirt-freshman guard Fabian Rial (Bayamon, Puerto Rico) scored the Clippers final point on a free throw, while the host added five points to its total to create the final score.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• The Clippers converted on 20-62 shots, going 7-26 from three-point territory and 9-20 from the free throw line.
• Bentley finished 32-60 from the field, 11-18 from distance and 22-25 from the free throw line.
• Concordia recorded seven assists while Bentley had 24.
• Bentley held a 53-24 advantage in rebounds.
• Concordia committed 12 turnovers, resulting in 22 points for the host. Bentley had 15 turnovers, leading to 10 points.
• Concordia' bench scored 23 points while the Falcons got 35 from its bench.
• Concordia recorded nine steals with seven blocks while Bentley stole the ball four times with five blocks.
UP NEXT
The men's basketball team hosts Assumption College on Wednesday, Nov. 13 with tip-off set for 5 p.m.
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