With its win, Muskingum is now 15-8 overall and 10-6 in the OAC and is now tiedd with B-W. The loss dropped the Yellow Jackets to 17-6 overall and 10-6 in the league.
In the first half, Muskingum jumped out to a 5-0 advantage and led by as many as seven points at 16-9 with 11:30 left when sophomore guard Jeff Smallwood canned a jumper. B-W then went on a 7-0 run to tie the score at 16-all when sophomore forward Tori Davis scored on a jumper at the 9:35 mark. B-W took its first lead at 19-16 at 8:15 when senior point guard Tom Harrington canned a three-pointer. The game was then tied five times before Muskie center Roy Skidmore scored on a layup to give Muskingum a 36-34 lead at the intermission.
In the second half, Muskingum had its biggest lead of five points on two occassions with the last being at 54-49 at the 10:20 mark when Smallwood canned a three-pointer. B-W then went on an 8-2 run to lead 57-56 with 6:17 left when Harrington canned a trey. Muskingum regained the lead at 59-58 when Ross canned a three-pointer. B-W would get as close as one point twice, but Muskingum answered the Jackets each time, including four key one-and-one foul shots by junior center Cole Pittis in the final 33.92 seconds. Pittis' last two foul shots with 9.92 seconds left sealed the win. A Harrington trey with two seconds left to tie the score was off target.
Joining Ross in double figures for the Fighting Muskies was Pittis with 13 points and seven rebounds. Senior guard Matt Dansby led Muskingum with 10 rebounds as the Fighting Muskies outrebounded the Yellow Jackets, 40-27, including 15-7 on the offensive end of the court.
B-W was led by Tori Davis with a game-high 20 points, Harrington had 18 with four three-pointers.
B-W next plays on Wednesday, February 16 when it travels to Ada, Ohio for an OAC game against Ohio Northern University at the ONU Sports Center at 7:30 p.m.
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