The Wilkes University Men\u2019s Basketball team prevailed against Scranton 77-74 after a tough fought second half on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Colonels were led by Lucas Lesko who had 24 points and the game sealing shot with 13.1 seconds left in the game to make it 77-74<\/p>\n
Jack Argento and Colin Ackerman followed Lesko with 23 and 9 points each.<\/p>\n
After jumping out to a 6-0 lead early on, the Colonels would only hold a 37-31 lead at the half<\/p>\n
The Royals would tie the game up at 22 with 7:05 left in the first half after being down by 10 early on.<\/p>\n
Scranton came out strong in the second half holding a 56-52 lead halfway through after a jumper from Jon Spatola.<\/p>\n
After a very back-and-forth final stretch, the Colonels would take a 75-74 lead after a layup by Lesko.<\/p>\n
Lesko scored on a\u00a0 jumper to make it 77-74, and the Royals had an opportunity to send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n
Nick Ruisi missed a three as the clock wound down, with the Colonels holding and securing the victory at the John Long Center.<\/p>\n
The Royals were led by Sammy Tornabene who had 23 points on the night.<\/p>\n
The Colonels improve to 14-9 on the season and 9-7 in Landmark conference play and will conclude the regular season at home against Goucher College on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Scranton falls to 19-5 on the season and 12-5 in conference and will conclude their season at Catholic University on the same day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wilkes University Men\u2019s Basketball team prevailed against Scranton 77-74 after a tough fought second half on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-117658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117658","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=117658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}