ADRIAN, Mich. – The Siena Heights men's basketball team hosted the Lourdes University Gray Wolves in a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference game. The Saints shot 48.1 % from the field and held Lourdes to 44.2%. Regardless of leading in both rebounds and field goals the Siena Heights Saints fell at home in the Fieldhouse 60-66.
Curtis Bell III paved the way for SHU going 11-15 to earn 28 points, 12 rebounds, and four assists. Landon Links put up nine points along with six rebounds as both Jonas Tester and Colin Nutter tallied eight points for the Saints.
Starting out with an 11-point lead Siena controlled the flow of the first half. Dominating play with a tough defense until the minute when the Gray Wolves tied the game 31-31 to go into halftime. Coming out of the break both teams traded points as well as the lead for nearly nine minutes. When Lourdes created a small gap in score going up seven points. Faced with tough calls SHU continued to stay in the game finding points down low. The contest would end 60-66 favoring the visiting team.
Quote from Coach
"I thought tonight we competed really hard. I don't think this game came down to the last two minutes. There were possessions in the first that we lost a couple of fifty-fifty balls and they picked up and converted into layups. You talk about how football is a game of inches; tonight was a game of possessions. But I'll take the fact that we played really hard and with heart. We kept fighting a grinding, we can take a step from that a keep building from this.
UP NEXT
SHU returns to the road, traveling to UNOH on Saturday, November 19th. The game is scheduled to start at 3:00 PM.
