Jan 16, 2021

MBB🏀 | Eagles bury Mountaineers from three-point line Friday, 85-73

Posted Jan 16, 2021 4:15 AM

By: Con Marshall, CSC Athletics

Center Jacob Jefferson sank 10 of 14 field goal attempts while scoring 24 points and newcomer Deundra Roberson was seven of nine from the field while tallying 18 as the Chadron State College men’s basketball team defeated the Western Colorado Mountaineers 85-73 on Friday night in the Chicoine Center at CSC.

               The Eagles shot 54.7 percent from the field that included 12 of 24 from 3-point territory.  They led 48-36 at halftime and were ahead by as many as 20 points in the second half, when both teams wound up scoring 37 points. Both teams also grabbed 31 rebounds.

CSC’s Brady Delimont returned from missing two games because of a concussion to add 14 points. Point guard Marcus Jefferson scored just six points, all on free throws, but handed out eight assists and collected nine rebounds.

               Five Western players scored in double figures, but their total was just 52 points as two of the Mountaineers finished with 11 and the remaining three scored 10 apiece.  Western shot 46 percent from the field and was eight of 24 points from behind the arc. 

               Chadron State is now 3-3 for the season and Western is 2-5. 

               Both Chadron State teams were scheduled to play three double-headers in a five-day period beginning Friday night, but all of the other games were postponed because of COVID issues involving the opponents.  Next on the Eagles’ schedule are games against South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City on Thursday, Jan. 21.