Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 25, 1994 TAG: 9402250257
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ANDREA KUHN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The loss puts the Tigers (20-5), who were ranked fifth in the NCAA Division III South Region rankings this week, on the bubble for making the NCAA Tournament. The 40-team field will be announced Sunday.
Guilford will play sixth-seeded Emory & Henry in the semifinals today at 4 p.m. Top-seeded Roanoke College will play the Virginia Wesleyan-Bridgewater winner in the other semifinal at noon.
Ferrell, who has started every game of his Quakers career, also had six rebounds and 10 assists. Adam Lamb had a team-high nine rebounds and 15 points.
Guilford (11-13) led 25-24 with 8 minutes, 13 seconds left in the first half before the Tigers went on a 6-0 run to take a five-point lead, their biggest of the game.
Ferrell then took charge, scoring six straight points to give the Quakers back the lead. Guilford, which lost a quadruple-overtime game to the Tigers three weeks ago, led 39-37 at halftime.
The Quakers slowed the game with a zone defense in the second half and broke it open with a 29-8 run. Ferrell scored 10 points and Lamb had seven in the run to put Guilford up 81-67.
"Hampden-Sydney forces you to play very fast," Guilford coach Jack Jensen said. "They run and jump, both full-court and half-court, double-team a lot and force you to do things you don't normally do."
"I felt like we had to take a chance in the second half and force them to shoot from the perimeter. It paid off."
No. 6 Emory & Henry 64\ No. 3 Randolph-Macon 62
The Wasps got 17 points and 14 rebounds from senior forward Scott Butcher en route to a first-round victory over the Yellow Jackets.
Dan Prescott scored on a layup that put Randolph-Macon (12-13) up 43-33 with 16:28 left. Emory & Henry (12-14) then outscored the Yellow Jackets 13-3 over the next eight minutes to go up 49-48.
E&H, which will play No. 7 Guilford today at 4 p.m., didn't trail again. Randolph-Macon closed to three points with 30 seconds remaining, but junior forward Darren Wheatley made four free throws down the stretch to seal the win.
\ No. 4 Bridgewater 72\ No. 5 Va. Wesleyan 65
Jeff Berry and Dan Rush scored 16 points each as the Eagles topped the Marlins (11-14) in a first-round game.
Berry also grabbed a team-high eight rebounds for Bridgewater (16-9), which will face top-seeded Roanoke - on a 20-game winning streak - in the semifinals at noon today.
Rush, a junior center, scored seven straight points as Bridgewater took a 62-57 lead with 1:52 remaining in the game. But freshman James MacLeod got loose for consecutive 3-pointers to pull the Marlins to 66-63 with 31 seconds remaining.
Bridgewater made three of six free-throw attempts in the final 16 seconds and freshman Tim Wilson knocked in a jumper at the buzzer to provide the final margin.
by CNB