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Sophomore Noa’Sosa Friedman scored 18 points to head four double-digit scorers for the Lycoming College men’s basketball team, which opened the season with an 80-69 victory over SUNY Delhi on Friday, Nov. 6 in the Harold J. Brodie Classic in Rochester, N.Y.
Lycoming (1-0) shot 52.6 percent from the field and held the Broncos to just over 30 percent from the floor to start the two-day tournament with a victory. It will face the winner of MCLA/RIT in the championship game of the Brodie Classic at 3 p.m., on Saturday.
The Warriors opened up a 10-point led on two separate occasions in the first half, highlighted by a three-pointer from senior Hayden Pardoe (a Central Mountain graduate) that gave Lycoming a 22-12 lead. The Broncos closed to within four, but the Warriors finished the half on an 8-4 spurt to take a 38-30 lead into the locker room.
After halftime, the Warriors immediately grew the lead back into double digits, with a three-pointer from sophomore Elijah Slabach stretching the lead to 49-34 just a bit more than three minutes out of the break. SUNY Delhi answered with an 11-0 run that closed the gap back to four points with just under 13 minutes remaining, and the two teams traded buckets for the next several minutes, with the Broncos pulling within a single point at two junctures midway through the half.
Lycoming, however, stretched the lead back out, with a layup from sophomore Ben Dalton (a Jersey Shore graduate) pushing the lead back to 10 with 4:44 left, capping off a 13-4 run. The game was never closer than eight points from there as the Warriors knocked down four of their final five shots to seal the victory.
Friedman notched 18 points and six rebounds, going a perfect 8-for-8 from the field. While Slabach added 14 points and eight rebounds. First-year Blake Nagurney nd Pardoe each tallied 10 points, while Pardoe just missing a double-double with a team-high nine rebounds. Junior C.J. Pearson chipped in 11 points and six boards off the bench in his Lycoming debut.