Piedmont Lions @ Mercer Bears

Piedmont LionsPiedmontPDMT

Final

	1	2	T
Piedmont PDMT	21	27	48
Mercer MER	42	46	88

Mercer BearsMercerMER

1-0, 1-0 Home

Piedmont Lions

starters
Chase EnglandC. England #35
Chris MeeksC. Meeks #12
Brian EdwardsB. Edwards #22
Peyton LukenP. Luken #10
Jessie JenkinsJ. Jenkins #11
bench
Aaron BaileyA. Bailey #44
Jordyn PropstJ. Propst #30
Justin VallejoJ. Vallejo #20
Trae GainesT. Gaines #33
Trey WindersT. Winders #32
Marquise LanierM. Lanier #21
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	8	3-11	2-3	0-0	3	3	0	0	0	1	2	5
22	2	0-1	0-0	2-2	4	0	2	0	0	0	4	2
23	2	0-3	0-1	2-4	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	3
29	16	6-12	4-10	0-0	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	2
14	2	0-2	0-1	2-2	4	1	4	0	0	1	3	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
5	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
27	6	3-10	0-3	0-0	5	1	3	0	1	1	4	2
24	8	3-6	2-3	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	0
12	2	0-2	0-2	2-2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	3
17	2	0-1	0-1	2-4	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	3
	48	15-51	8-25	10-14	31	9	18	2	1	8	23	24
		29%	32%	71%

Mercer Bears

starters
T.J. HalliceT.J. Hallice#14
Darious MotenD. Moten#22
Phillip LeonardP. Leonard#1
Ike NwamuI. Nwamu#10
Jibri BryanJ. Bryan#34
bench
Niklas NeyN. Ney#52
Stephon JelksS. Jelks#15
James BentoJ. Bento#32
Jordan StrawberryJ. Strawberry#11
Demetre RiversD. Rivers#23
Tyre MooreT. Moore#3
Jestin LewisJ. Lewis#5
Matt PanaggioM. Panaggio #2
John MosserJ. Mosser#12
Lawrence BrownL. Brown#25
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	7	3-5	1-1	0-0	8	0	1	0	0	4	4	2
24	8	2-10	0-1	4-4	4	3	1	3	1	2	2	1
21	10	5-8	0-0	0-2	5	7	0	0	0	0	5	1
25	22	7-12	2-4	6-7	3	0	1	0	1	1	2	2
28	8	2-7	1-4	3-3	3	1	2	2	0	0	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
10	7	2-3	0-0	3-3	4	1	2	0	0	3	1	2
6	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
6	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
16	11	4-7	1-1	2-2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
6	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
2	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
13	0	0-4	0-4	0-0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
6	4	2-2	0-0	0-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
9	4	1-1	0-0	2-2	4	0	0	0	2	3	1	0
	88	30-65	6-17	22-27	43	17	7	8	4	16	27	13
		46%	35%	81%

Game Information

Macon, GA

Referee:Alan Spainhour

Referee:Barron Searles

Referee:Brad Eggert

NCAA Division I

Southern Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
East Tennessee State	13-5	-	23-11
Mercer	11-7	2	19-13
Wofford	11-7	2	19-13
Samford	11-7	2	18-14
Furman	10-8	3	22-13
Western Carolina	10-8	3	15-16
UNC Greensboro	9-9	4	15-19
Chattanooga	7-11	6	13-19
The Citadel	7-11	6	11-22
VMI	1-17	12	6-26

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