oe BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Sophomore Cameron Hatcher flirted with a triple-double and five Cannoneers scored in double figures as the Pratt Institute men's basketball team fell to Medgar Evers College, 78-73, in a non-conference road tilt on Monday afternoon.
Hatcher turned in his fifth double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 boards, falling two assists shy of a triple-double, handing out a game-high eight. Junior Ace Bibbs shot 6-of-12 from the field and led Pratt (5-13) with 13 points.
Junior Patrick O'Gorman scored 14 points and dished out five dimes to increase his career tally to 984. Classmate Daniel Golub stuffed the stat line with 13 points, eight rebounds, four assists, and two blocks. First-year Lucas Zamboni rounded out the double-figure scorers with 10 off the bench.
Andre Evans Jr. led Medgar Evers (4-12) with 22 points and 11 rebounds and Dante Simmons led all scorers with 23 points off the bench in 27 minutes of action.
The back-and-forth affair featured nine ties and nine lead changes. Neither team led by more than two through the first 10 minutes of the opening stanza before a 7-0 Medgar run opened a 16-11 advantage. The hosts maintained the five-point edge with four minutes remaining before Pratt closed the period on a 12-5 spurt to carry a 32-30 lead into the lockers.
The black-and-gold built a four-point lead on multiple occasions and led for most of the five minutes of the second half. A 13-2 run for the Cougars put the hosts back on top and they pushed their lead to 65-55 with seven minutes to play. The Cannoneers would use a 15-3 spurt to regain the lead at 70-68 with four minutes left but they couldn't keep the momentum going and held without a field goal and just three points from the line to close regulation.
Medgar shot 45 percent (27-of-60) for the contest and 57 percent (17-of-30) in the second stanza. Pratt connected at a 37 percent clip (24-of-65) with six three-pointers.
Pratt opens a three-game home stand at the ARC on Saturday, January 21 hosting Coast-to-Coast Conference foe University of Mary Washington at noon.
