MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) \u2014 Chance Moore had 11 points and eight rebounds, Amir Jenkins scored 10 points, and West Virginia beat Mercyhurst 70-38 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Treysen Eaglestaff had nine points and eight rebounds and Brenen Lorient scored all his nine points in the first half for West Virginia (6-2).<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst’s 38 points were the fewest allowed by the Mountaineers since Coppin State also scored 38 on Dec. 20, 2017.<\/p>\n
WVU scored the first 10 points in a 16-2 opening run and never trailed. The Lakers scored 13 of the next 15 points \u2014 which included 3-pointers 35 seconds apart by Bernie Blunt \u2014 to trim their deficit to three a little more than nine minutes into the game but got no closer.<\/p>\n
West Virginia scored the final eight points in a 21-7 spurt to close the first half and took a 17-point lead into the intermission. The Mountaineers shot 64% (16 of 25 from the field, scored 13 points off nine Mercyhurst turnovers, and built a 21-2 advantage in bench points in the opening period.<\/p>\n
Blunt led Mercyhurst (3-5) with 14 points and no other Lakers player scored more than six.<\/p>\n
West Virginia had been coming off back-to-back losses to Clemson, 70-67, and Xavier, 78-68, at the Charleston Classic under first-year coach Ross Hodge. Hodge led North Texas to the semifinals of the 2024 NIT and a 27-win season last year.<\/p>\n
The Mountaineers shot 65% from the free-throw line, where they were plus-12scoring. Mercyhurst made just 1 of 8 (13%) foul shots.<\/p>\n
Jackson Fields made his debut for West Virginia after missing the first seven games of the season due to a wrist injury. The 6-foot-8 senior transfer from Troy finished with nine points on 3-of-5 shooting in 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst: The Lakers play Friday at Lafayette.<\/p>\n
West Virginia: The Mountaineers host Coppin State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) \u2014 Chance Moore had 11 points and eight rebounds, Amir Jenkins scored 10 points, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28252,28251,136,138,137,28250,28248,25404,27762,27757,28062,27759,27761,28253,28249,978],"class_list":["post-48747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-amir-jenkins","tag-bernie-blunt","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-jackson-fields","tag-mercyhurst-west-virginia-score","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32556-ap-online-college-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","tag-product-40821-ap-west-virginia-sports-only","tag-ross-hodge","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747","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=48747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}