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March 03, 2005
  

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Wooster 94, Baldwin-Wallace 78

WOOSTER, Ohio — James Cooper scored a career-high 27 points, making five-of-six three-pointers, tonight (Thursday, March 3, 2005) as the fifth-ranked The College of Wooster men's basketball team beat Baldwin-Wallace College, 94-78, in the first round of the NCAA Division III National Tournament at the Timken Physical Education Center in Wooster.

Wooster shot 35-of-60 from the floor for a 58.3 shooting percentage for the game, including 14-of-26 from three-point range and 10-of-11 from the foul line and outrebounded B-W, 42-28.

With its win, Wooster is now 27-2 overall and advances to play ninth-ranked Albion (Mich.) College, 24-3 overall, at the Kresge Center in Albion on Saturday (March 5) at 7:00 p.m. With its loss, B-W ends its season at 20-9 overall.

In the first half, B-W led by as many as three points at 8-5 when sophomore forward Tori Davis hit a jumper at the15:07 mark. Wooster built its lead to as many as 12 points at 46-34 with 10.4 seconds left when Cooper hit a three-pointer.

In the second half, Wooster's Tom Port came out and connected on the team's first two three-point shots increasing the lead to 52-34 with 18:53 left. The Fighting Scots had their largest lead of 24 points on two occassions with the last one being, 79-55, with 7:24 left when Cooper hit a pair of foul shots.

Joining Cooper in double figures for Wooster were Kyle Witucky with 16 points, Port and Matt Schlingman scored 14 points each and Tim Vandervaart added 12.

B-W was led by sophomore forward Tori Davis with 25 points and seven rebounds. Senior forward Thad Davis scored 15, while sophomore forward Chad Clark added 12 points and freshman guard Tyler Sekerak had 10.

With his 15 points tonight and two rebounds, Thad Davis ends his outstanding four-year career with 1,921 career points and 986 rebounds to rank second all-time in scoring and fourth in rebounding at B-W.

In addition, senior point guard Tom Harrington had seven assists to increase his B-W single-season school-record total to 168 and Tori Davis had three blocked shots to increase his single-season school-record total to 64.


News release submitted by Baldwin-Wallace on Mar 03, 2005 at 09:36 PM
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