JOHNSTOWN — The Clinton Community College men's basketball team held a 17-point lead in the first half against Fulton-Montgomery Community College Saturday.
The Cougars, however, couldn't hold it and dropped a 74-62 decision.
"We held the lead until six minutes were left in the game," said Clinton C.C. head coach Kevin Daugherty. "We were down, 13-7, and switched to a zone. We were effective and our inside guys did a good job.
"In the second half, we let them cut it in half early one. And, (Ricardo) Pierre hit a couple of three-pointers that hurt. We also weren't able to keep their post players off the glass in the second half."
Kairo Rochford led Fulton-Montgomery C.C. with 17 points.
Justin Vice connected on four three-pointers and paced the Cougars with 16 points. Terrick Waiters followed with 14 points. Shareem Hardy grabbed eight rebounds in the first half.
"Their strength is in the post they have a lot of athletes 6-4 and 6-5," Daugherty said. "Our zone did a good job negating that early, but we weren't able to maintain it in the second half. We gave up too many second and third shots in the end.
"We got real good play from Waiters — he did a nice job defensively inside on the boards. Vice once again led us in scoring and he has been a model of consistency offensively.
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Fulton-Montgomery 74, Clinton 62
Clinton C.C. (62)
Alexander 3-0-6, Hodge 1-5-7, Vice 5-2-16, Jones 1-2-4, Lettrick 2-1-5, Hardy 4-0-8, Hughey 1-0-2, Waiters 6-2-14. Totals: 23-12-62
Fulton-Montgomery C.C. (74)
Bailey 3-1-7, Blake 0-0-0, Crosby 4-0-9, Pierre 4-1-11, Smalls 0-3-3, Schulz 4-2-11, Barton 2-4-8, Bello 3-0-6, Rochford 7-3-17, Boyles 0-0-0. Totals: 27-14-74.
3-point goals: Clinton C.C. (4): Vice 4. Fulton-Montgomery C.C. (4): Pierre 2; Crosby; Schultz.
Halftime: Clinton C.C., 37-24.
NCCC 77, ACC 62
QUEENSBURY — Justin Poirier and Randy Ayyenab Danso played their best games as Saints to help visiting North Country defeat Adirondack Community College.
Poirier tallied 12 points and grabbed seven rebounds and Danso chipped in with 10.
Ryan Lamica scored 18 points to go with seven assists to lead the Saints (13-10). Tony Sparkman contributed 16 and Clinton Foster, 12 with nine rebounds.
"We played nine guys today and they all did a good job," NCCC Coach Chad LaDue said. "Adirondack is a pretty good team and to beat them the way we did, says something about our team."
NCCC held a 38-36 advantage at halftime and then began to take charge early in the second half.
"We started to get after them defensively; trapping a lot," LaDue added.
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North Country 77, Adirondack CC 62
North Country CC (77)
Lamica 8-2-18, Boyea 3-2-9, Sparkman 6-0-16, Poirier 5-1-12, Foster 4-2-12, Whitmore 0-0-0, Wilkins 0-0-0, Ellis 0-0-0, Danso 5-0-10. Totals 8-23-7/9-77
Adirondack CC (62)
Henderson 8-5-23, Watson 1-0-3, Hill 4-0-8, Miller 4-4-13, Jameson 2-0-5, Sisson 3-0-6, LeBrum 1-0-2, Mitchell 1-0-2. Totals 5-19-9/9-62.
3-point goals: NCCC (8) Boyea, Sparkman 4, Poirier, Foster 2. ACC (5) Henderson 2, Watson, Miller, Jameson.
Halftime: NCCC 38-36
Women
CCC 84, FMCC CC 47
JOHNSTOWN — The Cougars exploded out to a 43-27 lead by halftime and then the reserves took over to secure the victory.
"We got 25 points from our bench. They came in and played most of the second half," Clinton Coach Donna Dixon said.
"We shot extremely well as a team. We were 44 percent (23 for 52) for twos and 67 percent (10 for 15) for threes. And we had 29 assists."
Shannon Nutbrown scored 20 points to go with 16 rebounds and five assists for Clinton (10-12, 6-6 in the conference). Johni Coryea chipped in with 19 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists while Brittany Godreau finished with 16 points, four assists and four steals. Jordie LaRock contributed 13 points and eight rebounds and Cassie Pfeiffer was credited with four assists.
Christine Cornell and KC Dwyer each netted 13 for Fulton-Montgomery.
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Clinton CC 84, Fulton-Montgomery CC 47
Clinton (84)
Coryea 7-0-19, Godreau 7-0-16, Stoughton 2-0-4, Nutbrown 7-5-20, LaRock 6-1-13, Fournia 0-2-2, Bechard 0-0-0, Pfeiffer 1-0-3, Curry 1-0-2, Fountain 2-0-5. Totals 33-8-84.
Fulton-Montgomery (47)
Dwyer 5-1-13, Davey 1-0-2, McCloud 1-1-3, Dufort 4-0-10, Cornell 5-0-13, Long 1-0-2, Gardiner 1-0-2. Totals 18-2-47.
3-point goals: CCC (10) Coryea 5, Godreau 2, Nutbrown, Pfeiffer, Fountain. F-M (7) Dwyer 2, Dufort 2, Cornell 3.
Halftime: Clinton, 43, F-M 27.
NCCC 67, ACC 66
QUEENSBURY — The Saints opened a 10-point lead by the break and then held on through a poor shooting second half for the victory.
"We led most of the way, but we missed some free throws the second half that made it closer than it should have been," NCCC Coach Jerrad Dumont said. "They (Adirondack) made a few adjustments and shot very well the second half.
"Our defense was very good the first half and we shot much better."
Octavia Daye had an outstanding afternoon with 26 points and a stellar defensive effort in limiting Adirondack star Tiffany Bezio to nine points.
Crystal Mouthorp netted 13 points and Olga Garcia, 10, for the Saints (8-11, 5-10, Region III).
Katie Pinkowski scored 22 points to lead ACC.
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North Country 67, Adirondack 66
North Country (67)
Hamlin 0-0-0, Williams 2-0-4, Daye 10-2-26, Kirksey 0-0-0, Mouthorp 5-0-13, Clark 2-0-6, Garcia 4-2-10, Cring 0-3-3, Byfield 2-0-4, Stiles 0-0-0. Totals 25-8-67.
Adirondack (66)
Tracey 0-0-0, Black 7-5-19, Starks 4-0-10, Arena 0-0-0, Pinkowski 5-12-22, Plansker 0-0-0, Bezio 4-0-9, Dagles 1-3-5, Saunders 0-0-0. Totals 21-21-66.
3-point goals: NCCC (9) Daye 4, Mouthorp 3, Clark 2. ACC (3) Starks 2, Bezio.
Halftime : North Country 38, Adiirondack 28
