FINAL STATS

Staten Island, NY – Senior forward Llew Radford (Newport News, VA/ Heritage) scored a team-high 17 points but it was not enough as Quinnipiac overcame an early nine-point deficit in recording a 71-63 Northeast Conference (NEC) victory over Wagner. 

With the win, the Bobcats improved to 5-3 on the season, 2-0 in NEC play while Wagner fell to 5-3, 0-1 in league. 

In a nip-and-tuck affair that featured three ties and five lead changes, Quinnipiac took the lead for good at 43-42 on a layup by Justin Rutty. With 5:55 left in the game, senior forward Jamal Smith (Baltimore, MD/ Towson Catholic) hit a twisting layup to again draw Wagner to within one point, at 54-53, but the Bobcats responded with 10-3 spurt to up 63-57 with 3:14 left and were never headed. 

Guard Justin Feldeine scored 15 of his game-high 19 points and added 10 rebounds to pace Quinnipia. Feldeine's backcourt mate Bryan Geffen tallied 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting from the beyond the arc while Rutty was a force inside, tossing in 14 points and grabbing nine rebounds. 

Trailing 30-26 at intermission, Wagner opened the second half with an 8-2 spurt to take a 34-32 lead on a free throw by fifth-year senior guard Justin Drummond (Baltimore, MD/ McDonogh). 

Fifth-year senior guard Joey Mundweiler (Olathe, KS/ Olathe East) scored all 12 of his points in the second half while junior center Michael Orock (Hoboken, NJ/ Hoboken) added a season-high 11 points and five rebounds. 

Orock got the Seahawks out of the gate quickly, scoring the first six points of the game to give the Green & White a quick 6-0 lead. Radford scored the next five points for the Seahawks as Wagner built an early 11-2 lead. Wagner increased its lead to 18-9 lead with 12 minutes left in the half before Bobcats roared back with a 16-2 run to take a 25-20 lead with six minutes to go in the half en route to its 30-26 halftime lead. 

Wagner held a slim 43%-42% edge in field goal shooting while the Bobcats won the battle of the boards, 35-32. The Seahawks went to the line 26 times and made 18, a respectable 69% clip. 

The Seahawks are next in action on Sunday, December 21 when they host Ivy League foe Brown in a 4:00 pm tip-off at the Spiro Center. 

NOTES - Smith became the 36th player in Wagner history to score 1,000 points. Needing four points to hit the magical figure, Smith finished with eight and now stands at 1,004 career points.