Farmingdale State - 80; Yeshiva - 69
NEW YORK | Four players scored in double figures for the Farmingdale State College men's basketball team Saturday night at the Max Stern Athletic Center, while the Rams defense limited Yeshiva University, receiving votes in the preseason D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll, to a 7-for-26 effort (.269) from beyond the 3-point arc en route to an 80-69, Skyline Conference road victory over the host Maccabees.
Senior Nick Hurowitz (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) netted 21 points on 7-for-10 shooting in the win, while hauling in seven rebounds and dishing out a career-high six assists for a Farmingdale State (2-1, 1-0 Skyline) offense that shot .519 from the floor and 8-of-18 (.444) from downtown on the evening. Junior point guard Jevon Santos (Elmont, N.Y.) scored a career-high 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting (3-of-3 3FG) and handed out a team-best seven assists, with senior Valley Stream, N.Y., natives Corey Powell (7-for-9 FG) and Aaron Davis registering 17 and 10 points, respectively. Junior forward Jovayne Walters (Cambria Hts., N.Y.) came off the bench to pull down a game-best 10 caroms, helping the visiting side to own a 41-32 edge on the glass on the night.
Six straight points gave YU (2-3, 1-1) a 15-11 lead more than six minutes into the contest, before FSC came out of a time out and surged to an 11-0 run to take the lead for good midway through the half. Powell posted five points during the stretch, including converting a conventional 3-point play with 11:40 remaining to give the Rams an 18-15 edge. Santos collected five-consecutive points of his own with three minutes to go, as Farmingdale State brought a 37-32 lead into the halftime break.
After the Maccabees cut the deficit to 37-35, FSC knocked down triples on three-straight trips down the floor, and four out of five possessions, with a pairs of long-range efforts by Hurowitz and Davis sending the visitors to a 49-37 advantage four minutes in. The closest Yeshiva got the rest of the way was on a conventional 3-point play with 6:06 to go to cut the FSC margin to 60-54, before a subsequent 10-0 run by the visitors sent them to their second-straight victory at the Max Stern Athletic Center.
Head coach Brendan Twomey's Farmingdale State squad is back in action Tuesday night (Nov. 22) at 8 p.m., when it plays host to Brooklyn College in non-conference action. Fans are encouraged to bring new, unwrapped toys to donate prior the contest for the FSC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's "Toys for Tots" drive in Nold Hall.