Date: Monday, January 5, 2008
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne / Sports Information Director
(804) 752-7387 / christopherkilcoyne@rmc.edu

Short and Pugh Send R-MC Past Bridgewater 78-61 in ODAC Hoops Action
(Box Score)

ASHLAND, VA - The Randolph-Macon men's basketball team secured its seventh straight win on Monday night with a 78-61 ODAC win over visiting Bridgewater College.

Randolph-Macon, which is receiving votes in the latest D3hoops.com poll, improves to 8-3 overall and 3-0 in the league. Bridgewater falls to 6-6 and 2-2 in the league.

The backcourt tandem of Justin Short who had 22 points and Eric Pugh who connected for a career-high 13 points off the bench led R-MC to the victory. Short made 8-of-13 shots on the night, dished out five assists and grabbed six rebounds on an evening where he was honored prior to the game for becoming a member of R-MC's 1,000 career point club.

The Yellow Jackets made eight of their first nine shots from the field, taking a 17-4 lead on a bucket by Short with 13:35 to go in the first-half. R-MC never trailed in the game and took a 41-26 advantage into the locker room at halftime.

BC held R-MC to just four points over the first seven minutes of the second-half and were able to trim the deficit to nine when Michael Oblitey made a pair of free-throws, making the score 45-36.

Randolph-Macon responded with a 16-6 run, opening up a 61-42 lead on a Short jumper with just over eight minutes to go in the contest to seal the win.

R-MC held BC to 35% shooting on the night, allowing just 21 made field goals on 60 attempts, a 3-of-19 mark from the three-point line, including forcing 13 consecutive misses from beyond the arc to start the game. The Yellow Jackets made 28-of-51 field goals, including 7-of-15 makes from three-point land. 

Randolph-Macon will be back in action on Wednesday when it hosts archrival Hampden-Sydney at 7:00 p.m. in Ashland. The Randolph-Macon College Athletic Department announced that tickets will go on sale Tuesday morning. Tickets are 10 dollars and can be purchased at the main athletics office in Crenshaw Gymnasium between 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1p.m. - 4 p.m. Tickets are general admission and will be sold on a first come, first served basis.

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