1969-1970 Game 4 Results
Geared up trying to get my coaching career started with a perfect month and what would have to be one of the few 4-0 starts in Appalachian State history, heck 3-0 starts are probably pretty rare.
Ramage picks up 2 fouls in the first 30 seconds of the game and will sit a while, and by the time the first media timeout at 13:41, we trail 8-10. Nason has half of our points.
9:29 left and we lead 16-14. Nason has 10 points and a couple of three pointers. Thomas Sears has gotten his first minutes of the season at the center position.
With 3:46 left in the 1st half, it's tied at 21. Bartell picked up his 2nd foul and hopefully we can sit him the rest of the half. Nason is up to 12 points, and is carrying us currently.
At half, we're just barely ahead by the score: Appalachian State 35 - NJIT 34. Nason now has 17 points and 3 from long range. Besides that 6 other Mountaineers have scored, but we'll need someone else to get 10 or so in this second half if we want to hold on. Brown has 8 and Rodriguez 9 for NJIT.
After a sloppy start, probably because I forgot to put the starting lineup back in, where we get down by 5 very quickly, before we go on a nice run to be leading 49-46 with 15:27 left. It's been all Nason, he's up to 25 points and has two more from beyond the arc this half.
Bartell picks up his 4th with 10:28 left and it's all tied at 54 and that means Florio is going to have to try to play point guard for the next 4 or 5 minutes. McLoughlin has 13 boards, but also is 1-5 from the field and has 3 turnovers. This will be a tough one to pull out given our personnel issues right now. In fact, our 10 turnovers to their 2, is the only reason we don't lead by 10 points. Our percentages are much better.
With 7:15 left, we lead 61-58. Nason is getting a breather as is McLoughlin who heard my criticism of him and now has 11 points to go with his 15 boards.
But, NJIT goes on a 9-0 run with a timeout in between, to take the lead 69-65, and I left Bartell on the bench too long, as we got into some turnover problems for a few minutes.
Florio hits a 3 with 2:18 left to cut their lead to 68-69 and NJIT calls timeout. Florio is up to 11 points.
Bartell hits a basket to get us back to a 1 point defect and then turns around and gets a steal with 44 seconds left, dishes it off to Nason who dunks it and gets fouled, but misses the free throw afterwards and when the dust settles with 36 seconds left, we lead 72-71. Nason has 27 points to go with 6 boards.
But, it's all for naught because Shiflett gets fouled and makes the basket at the buzzer, and tragically misses the free throw, that had Nason made his would have allowed us to have a chance in OT. But, we don't and we take our first loss of the season in a heartbreaker by the score of NJIT 73 - Appalachian State 72. Some roster mismanagement during NJIT's nice stretch midway in the 2nd half really killed me. Nason had a career game, but missed a huge free throw at the end.
Box score:
Geared up trying to get my coaching career started with a perfect month and what would have to be one of the few 4-0 starts in Appalachian State history, heck 3-0 starts are probably pretty rare.
Ramage picks up 2 fouls in the first 30 seconds of the game and will sit a while, and by the time the first media timeout at 13:41, we trail 8-10. Nason has half of our points.
9:29 left and we lead 16-14. Nason has 10 points and a couple of three pointers. Thomas Sears has gotten his first minutes of the season at the center position.
With 3:46 left in the 1st half, it's tied at 21. Bartell picked up his 2nd foul and hopefully we can sit him the rest of the half. Nason is up to 12 points, and is carrying us currently.
At half, we're just barely ahead by the score: Appalachian State 35 - NJIT 34. Nason now has 17 points and 3 from long range. Besides that 6 other Mountaineers have scored, but we'll need someone else to get 10 or so in this second half if we want to hold on. Brown has 8 and Rodriguez 9 for NJIT.
After a sloppy start, probably because I forgot to put the starting lineup back in, where we get down by 5 very quickly, before we go on a nice run to be leading 49-46 with 15:27 left. It's been all Nason, he's up to 25 points and has two more from beyond the arc this half.
Bartell picks up his 4th with 10:28 left and it's all tied at 54 and that means Florio is going to have to try to play point guard for the next 4 or 5 minutes. McLoughlin has 13 boards, but also is 1-5 from the field and has 3 turnovers. This will be a tough one to pull out given our personnel issues right now. In fact, our 10 turnovers to their 2, is the only reason we don't lead by 10 points. Our percentages are much better.
With 7:15 left, we lead 61-58. Nason is getting a breather as is McLoughlin who heard my criticism of him and now has 11 points to go with his 15 boards.
But, NJIT goes on a 9-0 run with a timeout in between, to take the lead 69-65, and I left Bartell on the bench too long, as we got into some turnover problems for a few minutes.
Florio hits a 3 with 2:18 left to cut their lead to 68-69 and NJIT calls timeout. Florio is up to 11 points.
Bartell hits a basket to get us back to a 1 point defect and then turns around and gets a steal with 44 seconds left, dishes it off to Nason who dunks it and gets fouled, but misses the free throw afterwards and when the dust settles with 36 seconds left, we lead 72-71. Nason has 27 points to go with 6 boards.
But, it's all for naught because Shiflett gets fouled and makes the basket at the buzzer, and tragically misses the free throw, that had Nason made his would have allowed us to have a chance in OT. But, we don't and we take our first loss of the season in a heartbreaker by the score of NJIT 73 - Appalachian State 72. Some roster mismanagement during NJIT's nice stretch midway in the 2nd half really killed me. Nason had a career game, but missed a huge free throw at the end.
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NJIT 73, Appalachian State 72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appalachian State (3-1, 0-0): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts Chris McLoughlin C 33 3-7 4-6 5 17 2 4 11 Douglas Ramage PF 17 3-5 2-2 0 4 1 2 8 Kevin Nason SF 35 10-20 2-3 0 6 0 2 27 Reid Florio SG 34 4-6 2-3 0 1 1 2 11 Milford Bartell PG 24 3-8 0-0 0 1 5 4 7 David Flores SG 17 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 2 2 Matthew Woodworth PF 23 1-2 3-4 2 5 0 1 5 Marion Bracey SG 10 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 Joe Sanders PF 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Thomas Sears C 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 Turnovers: 12 (C.McLoughlin 3, D.Ramage 1, K.Nason 3, R.Florio 1, M.Bartell 1, D.Flores 1, M.Woodworth 2) Blocked Shots: 2 (C.McLoughlin 1, M.Woodworth 1) Steals: 4 (C.McLoughlin 1, K.Nason 1, M.Bartell 2) 3P FGs: 8-19 (C.McLoughlin 1-1, K.Nason 5-11, R.Florio 1-2, M.Bartell 1-5) NJIT (4-2, 0-0): Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts John Shiflett PF 32 6-13 1-2 2 6 1 4 13 Ronnie Brown PF 23 3-8 4-5 0 3 3 4 10 Danial England SF 32 5-8 1-2 3 5 0 2 11 Charles Rodriguez SG 31 3-12 2-2 3 4 2 4 11 J. Degrimaupont PG 30 3-7 1-2 3 6 8 2 7 Ronald Corey PG 14 3-5 2-2 0 1 1 1 8 Edgar Bailey C 17 2-6 0-0 1 3 0 1 4 Micah Fraley SG 10 2-2 0-1 0 2 2 0 5 Russel Toomer C 7 1-1 0-0 0 2 1 0 2 Marshall Raber SF 2 1-1 0-0 0 1 0 0 2 Jackie Webb PF 1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Turnovers: 6 (C.Rodriguez 2, J.Degrimaupont 2, R.Corey 2) Blocked Shots: 2 (E.Bailey 2) Steals: 4 (J.Shiflett 1, C.Rodriguez 1, E.Bailey 1, R.Toomer 1) 3P FGs: 4-11 (D.England 0-2, C.Rodriguez 3-6, J.Degrimaupont 0-2, M.Fraley 1-1) Player of Game: SF Kevin Nason (APP)
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