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Roundup: Georgetown outlasts ODU
No. 5 Hoyas, Hibbert 4-0 after 66-48 win
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Roy Hibbert and No. 5 Georgetown got all they could handle from Old Dominion and jazzed up Gerald Lee last night before pulling away to a 66-48 victory in Norfolk, Va.

The Hoyas (4-0) got four points each from Jonathan Wallace and Patrick Ewing Jr. and three from Hibbert in an 11-1 run to start the second half, opening a 41-24 lead with 16 minutes to play and diffusing the excitement that lasted through the first half.

Lee, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, was the major reason for it, outplaying the 7-2 Hibbert for the first 20 minutes. He had 16 points and eight rebounds, seven offensive, by halftime and three times he scored on putbacks to keep the game close.

Other Top 25 men's highlights

• Goran Suton had 16 points and 12 rebounds and No. 10 Michigan State (5-1) cruised past No. 24 North Carolina State (4-2), 81-58, in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at East Lansing, Mich. ... Brandon Rush scored 17 points and No. 4 Kansas (6-0) routed Florida Atlantic, 87-49, a rude welcome back to Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., for Rex Walters. One of the more popular players of the Roy Williams era at Kansas, Walters is in his second season as head coach at Florida Atlantic. The Owls (1-6) were without their leading scorer but probably had no chance of winning anyway on the court where their coach once starred.

District men

Grove City (3-1) rallied from a 23-point deficit early in the second half to beat visiting Juniata (3-2), 64-63. Luke Tomaselli hit the front end of a two-shot foul with 0.4 seconds left for the win. Shawn Carr led Grove City with 17 points. ... Edinboro moved to 3-0 with a 61-55 win against visiting Allegheny (4-2). Joseph Jones had 16 points and five steals for Edinboro. ... Theron Colao had 20 points, 14 in the second half, as visiting California (1-1) defeated Salem International (0-2), 80-71.

District women

Geneva is 5-0 for the second time in 20 years -- a school record -- after a 77-24 rout of visiting Franciscan (2-2). Geneva, which got 11 points apiece from Renee Rawding and Valerie Hamilton, had a 38-8 lead at halftime. ... Seton Hill (4-0, 1-0) handed visiting Pitt Johnstown (1-3, 0-1) its first loss in the West Virginia Conference with a 70-51 victory. Pitt Johnstown moved into the WVIAC in 2006. Katie Lintner had 16 points and eight rebounds for Seton Hill. ... Stacie Aleski had 18 points and six rebounds as visiting Carnegie Mellon (5-1) defeated Waynesburg (1-3), 60-50.

Note

• The Mountain West Conference reprimanded Air Force coach Jeff Reynolds for criticizing the officials in the Falcons' 59-57 loss to Montana at a weekend tournament in Spokane, Wash. The reprimand said Reynolds broke the conference sportsmanship rules with comments published by The Gazette of Colorado Springs. Reynolds was upset that one official overruled another, denying the Falcons a turnover that could have given them the ball and a chance to tie the score.

First published on November 29, 2007 at 12:00 am