After having its 11-game winning streak snapped Wednesday, the University of Scranton men\u2019s basketball team started another one Friday. But it wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n
The Royals overcame a 13-point halftime deficit to defeat Goucher College in overtime, 74-71, in a Landmark Conference matchup in Towson, Maryland.<\/p>\n
Trailing, 41-28, Scranton slowly chipped away at the deficit and took a 60-59 lead on a basket by Sammy Tornabene with 5:33 left in the second half. Ben Robinson followed with a 3-pointer, but Goucher hit three free throws in the final 1:39 of regulation to force overtime tied at 62.<\/p>\n
Robinson and Jon Spatola hit 3-pointers to open the overtime and give the Royals a 68-62 lead. After the Gophers closed to within two, Brendan Carr hit a 3-pointer to put Scranton ahead by five. Two free throws by Carr and one by Spatola in the final 33 seconds sealed the victory.<\/p>\n
Carr led the way for the Royals (8-2 league, 15-2 overall), who are ranked No. 21 in this week\u2019s d3hoops.com Top 25 men\u2019s poll, with 21 points. Tornabene added 16 points, Robinson had a career-high 15 points and Spatola totaled eight points, seven rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n
Scranton is scheduled to return to action Wednesday at Drew University.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s basketball<\/p>\n
At Towson, Maryland, the University of Scranton continued to roll with a 93-46 romp past Goucher College in Landmark Conference play.<\/p>\n
The No. 2-ranked Lady Royals stormed to a 37-point halftime lead to improve to 10-0 in the conference and 17-0 overall.<\/p>\n
Kaci Kranson scored 18 points to lead Scranton. Elizabeth Bennett added 14 points and Kaeli Romanowski totaled 10 points, eight rebounds, six steals and three assists.<\/p>\n
Scranton next hosts Drew on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the John Long Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After having its 11-game winning streak snapped Wednesday, the University of Scranton men\u2019s basketball team started another one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-95447","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\/95447","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=95447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}