BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin Wallace University men's basketball team lost to visiting Cleveland cross-town rival Case Western Reserve University, 83-81, tonight (Monday, November 16, 2009) in the season-opener for each team in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Center in Berea.
With their loss, the Yellow Jackets are 0-1 overall and next play on Friday at traditional rival Hiram College at 7:30 p.m. With their win, the Spartans are 1-0 overall and next play on Friday at 8:00 p.m. against Washington & Lee (Va.) University in the first round of the CWRU Tournament.
In the first, half, the Spartans built an early seven-point advantage at 20-13 at the 13:10 mark when junior forward Alex Hildebrandt made a layup but was unable to complete the three-point play when he missed a foul shot. CWRU built its lead to nine points at 24-15 with 11:06 left when senior guard Bryan Erce made a layup.
BW then went on a 16-6 run to take its first lead at 31-30 at the 5:12 mark when freshman Chris Ameen (Broadview Heights/ Walsh Jesuit) made a layup. BW's lead grew to four points at 34-30 with 3:57 left when senior forward and co-captain Paul Glass (Medina/ Senior) made one of two foul shots.
CWRU then scored the next four points to tie it at 34-34 and then continued its 15-6 run to take a 45-40 lead at halftime when senior guard Reid Anderson nailed a three-pointer at the buzzer to complete a 19-point first half scoring output.
In the second half, BW opened on a 10-5 run to tie it at 50-50 with 15:42 left when junior guard Zane Meeder (Erie, Pa./ Fairview) made a steal and scored on a layup. CWRU countered with a 12-5 run of its own to lead 62-55 with 10:31 left when junior center Eric Duerr rebounded a missed shot and made his own.
After BW cut the CWRU lead back to one point at 63-62, the Spartans went on a 12-2 run to build their largest lead of the game at 11 points at 75-64 when sophomore forward Tom Summers made two foul shots.
BW then went on a 15-5 run to close to within one point at 80-79 with 50.17 seconds left when All-Ohio Athletic Conference forward Kyle Brown (Strongsville) made three foul shots.
The Yellow Jackets were led by sophomore point guard Cabbil with a career-high 17 points and a career-high seven assists. He was joined in double figures by Brown, senior center Ben Dobberstein (Berea) and freshman guard Scott Voiers (Westlake/ Lutheran West) each with 11 points. The Spartans were led by Anderson with a game-high 25 points. He was joined in double figures by Summers with 17 points and a game-high 19 rebounds, freshman guard Robert Scott with 12 points and Duerr had 10 markers.
