Old Forge graduate Joe Macciocco was fouled on a 3-point shot attempt with one second left and sank all three free throws to give the Marywood University men\u2019s basketball team a 73-70 victory at Immaculata University on Thursday in Atlantic East Conference action.<\/p>\n
Marywood led by as many as 21 early in the second half and had a 16-point lead with 8\u00bd minutes left when Immaculata scored 11 straight points to spark a 19-3 run that tied the game at 70 with 56 seconds left. Marywood missed a 3-point attempt, but a Mighty Macs turnover gave the Pacers a chance for the final shot. Macciocco was fouled on his 3-point try with one second left and made the foul shots to give Marywood the win.<\/p>\n
Macciocco led the Pacers (4-3 league, 11-7 overall) with 22 points. Shilo Bivins had a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds. Collin Himmelberg added 12 points and five assists and Michel Loftin contributed nine points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s basketball<\/p>\n
At Scranton, Immaculata University scored the first nine points of overtime and went on to defeat Marywood University, 73-62, on in an Atlantic East Conference women\u2019s basketball game Thursday.<\/p>\n
Marywood tied the game at 60 on baskets by Megan Cavoli and Alli Anstadt to force overtime. However, the Pacers managed just two points in the extra session.<\/p>\n
The Mighty Macs improved to 7-0 in league play (15-3 overall).<\/p>\n
Cavoli led Marywood (4-3, 9-9) with 14 points. Anstadt finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Mia Blume added 11 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Forge graduate Joe Macciocco was fouled on a 3-point shot attempt with one second left and sank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-101403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-college-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}