Feb. 17, 2007

Final Stats

Slippery Rock, Pa. - The Rock offense sputtered for a second successive game Saturday as SRU dropped a 62-48 decision to visiting Shippensburg in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division action in Morrow Field House.

Saturday's game came 72 hours after SRU scored a season-low 44 points in a loss at PSAC-West rival Indiana U. of Pa.

Saturday's loss extinguished any remaining hopes The Rock had of returning to the PSAC playoffs for the first time since its 1999-2000 conference runnerup campaign.

SRU now stands at 5-20 overall, 2-8 in PSAC-West action.

Shippensburg, the defending PSAC-West champion, saw its record improve to 16-12 overall, 7-3 in division play, and is assured of its third straight trip to the conference playoffs.

Glenn Reepmeyer and Erroll Robinson each scored 10 points to lead The Rock's scoring attack, while Reepmeyer, Brian Campuzano and Jamar Scales tied for team-high rebounding honors with six each.

Chuck Davis, the reigning PSAC-West "Player of the Year," scored a game-high 16 points for Shippensburg.

The Rock shot a frigid 34.8% (16 of 46) from the field in Saturday's game including an icy 1-of-17 (11.1%) from 3-point range.

The Rock hung with the Red Raiders throughout the first half of action as the score was tied on five occasions and the lead traded hands four times.

Shippensburg scored eight of the final 12 points in the first half to take a four-point (28-24) lead into intermission and never trailed nor led by less than four points in the final 20 minutes. The guests' largest lead was a 15-point (49-34) advantage with seven minutes left to play.

The Rock will seek to snap a three-game losing streak when it hosts division-leading California U. of Pa. in an 8 p.m. game on Wednesday.

SRU plays its season finale on Sunday, Feb. 25, at Clarion (3 p.m. tipoff).

Notes: Saturday's game marked the first time since midway through the 2002-03 season that a Rock men's team failed to score 50 or more points in back-to-back games. The Rock scored 49 points each in successive losses at Indiana and Lock Haven in Games 16 and 17 of the 2002-03 campaign. One season earlier, The Rock had three straight sub-50-point games ... The aforementioned 1999-2000 season, when The Rock compiled a 17-12 record, is the last season in which SRU has had a winning record ... This winter marks the third successive season in which The Rock has lost 20 or more games. SRU had a 7-20 mark in 2004-05 and a 2-25 ledger a year ago.