The Clark Atlanta Panthers denied the Miles Golden Bears a possibility to comb the SIAC girls’s and males’s basketball championships, coming away with a 65-55 win.
The Miles girls’s crew received its first-ever SIAC championship earlier within the day, defeating Kentucky State 75-72.
Miles was trying to turn into the primary crew to win convention titles in males’s and ladies’s basketball in the identical season since 2004.
Shemani Fuller led the Panthers with 20 factors on 9-of-17 taking pictures from the sector, eight rebounds, and two blocks. Jalen Nesmith adopted with 15 factors and 6 rebounds.
SIAC Participant of the 12 months Chris Martin produced 13 factors, six rebounds, 4 assists, and two steals.
Miles guard Alvin Miles was the sport’s prime scorer, placing up 24 factors, six assists, and 5 rebounds. Truitt Spencer scored 9 factors; all three of his photographs got here from three-point vary.
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In every of Clark Atlanta’s first two event video games main into the championship sport, they trailed at halftime and finally fell behind by double digits.
This sport was a totally completely different story, as they bought a 20-8 lead in its first 10 minutes. The run was highlighted by a seven-minute stretch by which the Panthers outscored the Golden Bears 16-2.
Although Miles was capable of preserve the sport inside placing distance, solely getting into the half down eight factors, their struggles to capitalize on open makes an attempt within the first half loomed giant.
Clark Atlanta started the second half the identical method they began the primary, occurring a 19-8 run within the first eight minutes to take a game-high 19-point lead.
Miles continued to combat, finally trimming their deficit to as little as 4 factors within the remaining two minutes, however it was not sufficient to provide them an opportunity to win.
