Center Valley, PA (February 1, 2020) - Junior Timmy Edwards set a new career-high with 31 points leading the DeSales University men's basketball team to an 84-60 win over MAC Freedom rival King's College on Saturday afternoon in Billera Hall. 

The Basics

• Final Score: DeSales - 84, King's - 60
• Records: DeSales (13-6, 6-2 MAC Freedom); King's (10-9, 3-5 MAC Freedom)
• The Bulldogs stay in a tie for second place with Stevens with six games left in the regular season.

How it Happened

• Trailing 5-4 early, DSU used an 11-4 run to take a 15-9 lead on a dunk from Edwards six minutes into the game.
• The game went back-and-forth the rest of the half with the Bulldogs increasing its advantage to (37-27) at the break on a three from junior Mike Bealer.
• DSU led by double digits the entire second-half, slowly pushing its lead to 17 four minutes into the half.
• The Monarchs scored four straight points to get within 13, but the Bulldogs got back-to-back 3's from Bealer and never looked back from there.

Top Bulldog Performers 

• Edwards finished 12-18 from the field and added a career-high 16 rebounds to record his third double-double of the season. 
• Bealer had 14 points, hitting four three-pointers. 
• Senior Kweku Dawson-Amoah added 13 points and freshman Jordan Holmqvist finished with 11 points off the bench.
• Senior Ben Pratt had a terrific floor game with nine assists and just three turnovers.

For the Foes 

• Jake Pawliczak finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Monarchs. 
• Andrew Hudak and Patrick Galvin each had eight points.

Inside the Box Score

• DSU shot 51.7 percent from the field for the game and hit 7-for-13 from outside the arc in the second-half.
• DeSales also cashed in from the line hitting 15-of-18 (83.3%).
• DeSales controlled the glass out rebounding King's 41-29 and scoring 19 second chance points.

Up Next 

• The Bulldogs are back in action on Wednesday when they travel to FDU-Florham for another MAC Freedom contest beginning at 6:00 pm.