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UD men’s basketball tops Team Ezybonds in exhibition
11:10 a.m., Nov. 6, 2003--Senior shooting guard Mike Ames scored a game-high 29 points to lead the University of Delaware men's basketball team to a 76-63 win over Australia’s Team Ezybonds in an exhibition game Wednesday night at the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center.
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Ames, a pre-season first team All-Colonial Athletic Association selection, scored 10 of UD’s first 14 points and finished with 14 in the opening half as the Fightin’ Blue Hens built a 36-28 lead at intermission. He added two important three-point baskets and four free throws in the final 10 minutes of the game to hold off a late Team Ezybonds charge.
UD junior point guard Mike Slattery, the returning CAA assist leader and a pre-season second team selection, added 13 points and a game-high six assists while David Lunn added 10 points. The Hens connected on 24 of 33 free throws.
Team Ezybonds, an all-star team squad from Australia that was playing the first of eight games against NCAA Division I teams, was led by forward Jamal Brown, a former Texas Christian University player who hit on eight of 19 shots from the field and finished with a team-high 25 points and 10 rebounds. Emile Sheppard came off the bench to score 11 points and guard Braith Cox added 10 points.
UD was in front the entire first half, controlling the action and leading by at least five points throughout the last five minutes of play. The Hens went up by as many as 11 points at 34-23 following a dunk by 6-foot 8-inch freshman forward Henry Olawoye and a jumper by Slattery.
UD took a 36-28 lead into halftime and went back up by 11 points again at 52-41 in the second half on a three-pointer by Ames with 10:42 remaining. But Team Ezybonds fought back and finally tied the game for the first time at 54-54 on a three-pointer by Cox with 8:17 remaining. The Australian team took its only lead of the night at 56-54 seconds later on a jumper by Sheppard.
But UD then rallied to put the game away, scoring 10 straight points– two Ames three-pointers, a Lunn jumper and two Slattery free throws–to go back up 64-56 with six minutes left.
Team Ezybonds pulled to within three at 66-63 on two Cox free throws with 3:13 left, but Ames answered with four straight free throws to put the game away.
Nine Hens saw significant action in the contest, including three freshmen. In addition to Olawoye, 6-7 forward Herb Courtney had five points and two rebounds and 6-10 center Raphael Madera had seven points and eight rebounds.
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