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Men's Basketball Loses to Hartwick

Steve Jaynes - SID

Mark Carson scored 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in a loss to Hartwick on Friday night.

| 2/15/2008 8:39:15 PM

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ROCHESTER, NY -- The RIT men's basketball team dropped their second straight game, lsoing to Hartwick College (9-13, 4-9 E8) 64-61 in Empire 8 action on Friday evening. The loss drops RIT to 12-11 overall and 6-8 in the Empire 8.

The Tigers shot 20% from the floor in the opening half on  just 5-of-25 shooting. The Tigers were 1-of-7 from behind the three-point line. The Tigers went about five minutes in nthe first half without a point.

The Hawks shot 50% from the floor on 11-of-22 shooting. Jan Cooziello led Hartwick with 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting.

Hartwick extended their lead 14 points early in the second half on a layup by Ramond Doyley, making it 32-18 Hartwick.

RIT went on a 27-11 run, cutting the lead to five points on a three-pointer by Kenny Gethers (Syracuse, NY/Bishop Grimes) with 11:58 to play.

Shane Foster (Woodland Hills, CA/Calabasas)'s (Woodland Hills, CA/Calabasas) three-pointer with 8:31 to play cut the Hawks lead down to three points at 48-45.

Hartwick responded with a quick 8-0 run to extend their lead back out to 11 points with 6:37 remaining. Jan Cocozziello had six of the 11 points in that run, including two three-pointers.

The Tigers whittled away the Hawks lead and had it down to three points on a layup by Mark Carson (Voorheesville, NY/Voorheesville) (Voorheesville, NY) with 1:28 to play.

The Tigers had three chances to tie the the game with 29 seconds remaining but three-pointers from Shawn Roe (Corning, NY/Corning East) (Corning, NY/Corning East) and Scott Young (Almond, NY/Hornell) (Hornell, NY) fell off the mark.

Mark Carson (Voorheesville, NY/Voorheesville) led RIT with 21 points and 14 rebounds. Kenny Gethers (Syracuse, NY/Bishop Grimes) (Syracuse, NY/Bishop Grimes) added 12 points and Nate Korinchak (Strongsville, OH/Strongsville) (Strongsville, OH) chipped in 10.

Hartwick was led by Coczziello who scored a game-high 29 points. A.J. Beaulieu added 15 points for the Hawks.

RIT will host Alfred University on Tuesday, January 19 at 8 pm in Clark Gymnasium.