WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA – Junior All-Ohio Athletic Conference guard Kevin Krakowiak (Valley City/ Parma Heights Holy Name) scored 21 points as the Baldwin Wallace University men's basketball team defeated King's (Pa.) College, 74-57, today (Saturday, December 29, 2012) in a non-league game in McGrane Gymnasium. The win was a season-high fourth straight for the Yellow Jackets.
 
With its win, BW is 7-4 overall. With its loss, King's is 5-5 overall.
 
In addition to Krakowiak for BW, junior two-time All-OAC forward Kyle Payne (Brunswick) had 11 points. Payne and senior two-time Academic All-OAC forward Chris Ameen (Broadview Heights/ Walsh Jesuit) tied for game-high honors with seven rebounds each.  BW outrebounded the Monarchs, 42-27. Senior Academic All-OAC guard Ben Umbel (Poland/ Seminary) also had a career-high eight assists. King's was led by junior guard Joe Caffrey with 12 points and sophomore forward Tim O'Donnell had 10.
 
BW got off to an early, 2-0 lead at the 19:40 mark when junior forward Tyler Ferrell (Brunswick) scored a layup off of an assist from Payne.  The Monarchs responded with a basket of their own with 19:03 remaining in the first half to tie the game at 2-2.  The Yellow Jackets went on a 10-5 run to take a 12-7 lead at the 13:12 mark when Payne scored on a layup.  During the run, Krakowiak made a three-pointer on an assist from Umbel and scored on a layup that was assisted by sophomore guard Jaron Crowe (Mentor).  The other five points during the BW run were accounted for by Payne.

After King's cut the lead to 15-13, the Yellow Jackets regained their five-point lead at 18-13 with 7:59 remaining in the first stanza when senior guard Brandon Schmidt (Wellington) hit a three-pointer on an assist from Payne. The Schmidt triple started a trend as both Crowe and Krakowiak sandwiched triples around a Monarch basket to extend BW's lead to 24-15 with 5:45 left.  A layup by senior forward Sean Rothermel (Delaware/ Hayes) increased the lead to 26-15 with 5:13 left.  After King's ended BW's 11-2 run with a hoop, Rothermel scored two more field goals to give the Yellow Jackets a 30-17 halftime advantage.

King's sophomore forward Tim O'Shea opened the second half scoring to cut the BW lead to 30-19 with 18:37 left in the half.  The Yellow Jackets answered right back with a three from Krakowiak to extend BW's lead to 33-19 at the 17:53 mark.

The Yellow Jackets went on a 8-4 run to take a 41-23 lead with 14:08 remaining when junior center Aaron Selmek (Delaware/ Columbus St. Francis DeSales) scored on a layup.  The run continued as BW built a pair of 20-point bulges with the last at 58-38 with 8:22 left when Umbel made a jump shot.

King's went on a 9-2 run to cut the Yellow Jacket lead to 60-47 with 6:38 left when O'Donnell made a layup.  BW answered right back with a 6-2 run to build the lead back to 17 points at 66-49 when Ferrell made a layup off a Krakowiak assist at the 5:06 mark.

Undaunted, King's scored eight unanswered points to cut the BW lead to single digits at 66-57 with 2:25 remaining when sophomore guard Mike Foster made a three-pointer.  But the Yellow Jackets "iced" the game by making all eight of their foul shots in the final 1:59, including four by Krakowiak, to claim the win.

BW is back in action on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at Ohio Athletic Conference rival Otterbein University. The next home game is on Saturday, Jan. 5 against OAC rival Marietta College at 3:00 p.m.

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