Center Valley, PA, (December 2, 2006) – Four players reached double digits for the second straight game and junior Eddie Ohlson (Allentown, PA/Parkland) tied his career-high with 12 assists as the DeSales University men’s basketball team cruised past King’s College, 82-55, in Freedom Conference action on Saturday afternoon in Billera Hall.

 

        The Bulldogs (4-2, 2-0 Freedom) entered the game looking to snap a four-game home losing streak dating back to last season and faced a tough task as the Monarchs (3-3, 1-1 Freedom) had taken four straight in the series and three straight from DSU in Billera Hall, but an 11-0 run mid-way thru the first half pushed a four-point lead into a 15-point advantage at 29-14 and the Bulldogs never looked back.

 

        During the run sophomore Ed Lapinski (Red Hill, PA/Upper Perkiomen) had the first four points, freshman Jim Malatesta (Warminster, PA/Archbishop Wood) had a driving lay-up, Ohlson canned a wide open three-pointer and senior Steve Kriczky (Birdsboro, PA/Daniel Boone) had a lay-in on the break.  King’s cut the margin to nine points just before the half but Kriczky nailed his third of three first-half treys to give DSU a 41-29 halftime lead.

 

        In the second half, DeSales never led by less than 14 points before settling for the final 27-point margin.  Just like in the women’s game, the men’s game was decided by turnovers as the KC committed 19 and DSU tallied just eight.  The Bulldogs shot 56.9 percent from the field as compared to just 42.6 percent for the Monarchs.

 

        Freshman Darnell Braswell (Allentown, PA/William Allen) scored a game and season-high 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting to lead the scoring attack.  Junior Phil Stricker (Womelsdorf, PA/Conrad Weiser) tallied 15 points and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, Kriczky finished with 13 points and Lapinski came off the bench to tally a career-high 13 points. 

 

        Ohlson equaled his career-high with the 12 assists and for the second straight time came up just one helper short of tying the single-game record.  He now has 308 assists moving into fifth place all-time and just 10 behind Dave Grubb for fourth place all-time.

 

        King’s was led by junior Vince Scalzo who tallied a team-high 13 points, all in the first half.  Senior Vince Sobocinski had 11 points and junior Jamie Cousart tallied seven points and a game-high 11 rebounds in the loss.