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Taylor Sadler

Basketball, Men

Brewton-Parker Edges Benedict, 70-68

Xavier Collier drives against Brewton-Parker College.
Box Score COLUMBIA, S.C. – Warren LaBeuf hit a pair of free throws with six seconds left as Brewton-Parker College shocked the Benedict College Tigers 70-68 on Wednesday night in the Benjamin E. Mays HRC Arena.

Brewton-Parker, an NAIA school from Mt. Vernon, Ga., entered the game with a 1-9 record and riding an eight-game losing streak, but they stayed toe-to-toe with the Tigers for the entire game. The largest lead of the game was six points, by the Barons in the first half. The largest lead in the second half was just four points. The game was tied 12 times, and there were 22 lead changes.

Benedict falls to 4-2 on the season.

The Tigers had a 60-56 lead with 3:52 to play on a pair of free throws by Brennan Reynard, but the Barons tied the game at 60 on a jumper by LaBeauf with 2:31 on the clock. The Barons capped off the 8-0 run with a pair of free throws by Darrie Stephens with 1:22 remaining for a 64-60 lead.

With Brewton-Parker holding a 66-62 lead, Brennan Reynard hit two free throws with 53 seconds left. Xavier Collier stole the ball from LaBeauf and fed the ball to Cassius Bell to tie the game with 43 seconds left. Bell was fouled, but missed the free throws and potential three-point play.

Stephens, who led the Barons with 30 points, including going 15-of-15 from the line, sank two more free throws with 38 seconds to go to put the Barons back ahead by two points. Reynard drove the lane for a layup to tie the game again with 17 seconds to go.

After LaBeauf's two free throws with six seconds left, the Tigers had a last chance with an inbounds play with less than two seconds on the clock. They tried to throw a lob pass to Tydran Beaty, but the throw was broken up by the Barons.

Lynden Davis led the Tigers with 16 points, hitting four 3-pointers. Collier added 13 points, and Reynard had 10 points and six assists.

The Tigers shot just 37.9 percent for the game, but were especially cold from behind the arc. Benedict made just seven of 27 3-point attempts (25.9 percent), including 1-of-9 (11 percent) in the second half.

“We shot the ball extremely bad tonight,” Benedict head coach Fred Watson said. “We got the shots we thought we were going to get. We had 16 more shots than they did. We just didn't make shots.”

The Tigers close out their December schedule on Saturday, traveling to face Florida Southern University in Lakeland, Fla.
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