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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- Senior forward
Jamar Scales scored a game-high 22 points Tuesday night to lead The Rock to its fifth win in as many outings this winter, a 125-58 waltz past visiting Penn State Fayette in non-conference action in Morrow Field House.
Scales' final points came on a 3-point shot midway through the final half of action and made him the 20th player in Rock men's basketball history to score 1,000 or more points in his career.
Trivia buffs will also be interested to know that Scales' trey also accounted for The Rock's 98th, 99th and 100th points Tuesday night.
Tuesday's game marked the fourth time in five games this season that the Green and White had passed the century mark in scoring.
Tuesday's point total by The Rock was the second highest in school history, behind only a 128-52 victory Nov. 22 over Ohio State Mansfield.
Tuesday's win gave first-year head coach
Kevin Reynolds' squad a 5-0 record and the best start by a Rock men's team since the 1990-91 team coached by Bob Barlett also rang the victory bell after each of its first five games.
The Rock, after playing its first five games this winter in Morrow Field House, takes its first road trip of the season Saturday when it travels to Bloomsburg.
A win at Bloomsburg would be doubly significant: 1) A win would give this year's Green and White squad the best start since the 1963-64 team coached by Hank Baierl won its first nine games and 2) Coach Reynolds is a 1991 graduate of Bloomsburg and a former Huskies basketball student-athlete.
Scales (pictured above) was one of six Rock players who finished Tuesday night's game with a double-digit scoring total. Senior guard
Denell Stephens had 19 points, sophomore post player
Jade Burka 15 points, junior guard
Maurice Douglas and sophomore guard
Maron Brown 13 points each and sophomore guard
Michael Evans Jr. 12 points.
Stephens, who was named earlier in the day Tuesday as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division "Player of the Week," also had 10 rebounds Tuesday night. Brown led The Rock with 11 rebounds.
Senior point guard
Kyle Camper handed out 17 assists for The Rock in Tuesday's game, which marked the fifth time in as many games the playmaker recorded 10 or more handouts.
The outcome was never in doubt Tuesday night as SRU scored the first eight points and 27 of the first 30 points in the game.
The Rock held a pair of 46-point leads in the final minutes of the first half and took a 43-point, 64-21, lead into intermission.
The Green and White held a 70-point, 103-33, lead shortly after Scales' joined the 1,000 Point Club and cruised home with the victory.
