Oklahoma Baptist got a combined 73 points from Nate Brumfield and A.J. Hawkins en route to a 123-94 exhibition win over East Central Monday night.
Brumfield had 39 points on 16-of-21 shooting while Hawkins was 14-of-15 with 34 points, to go with 11 rebounds, five assists and two steals.
“Nate and AJ both had great games,” said OBU coach Doug Tolin. The guards did a good job getting the ball to those guys and they did a good job finishing it. We’ve got some players that have some
offensive skills.”
OBU started with a 9-0 run and never trailed in the up-tempo contest.
“Overall, the object is to improve and that was a very athletic team,” said Tolin. “We handled the ball well I thought. I thought we were a lot more ready to play than we were Friday night. That game just went up and down. There were times we ran plays, but it was pretty much up and down. It’s ok to play quick if you’re efficient and we were a little more efficient than they were tonight.”
A 10-1 Bison run pushed the lead out to 41-23 with 7:36 left in the first half. Emmanuel Wilson had a personal 8-0 run to give OBU a 59-38 edge late in the half. The Bison enjoyed a 62-42 lead at the half.
Four different Bison scored in a 7-0 run to give OBU its largest lead, 119-87, with 2:21 left in the game.
Wilson was the only other Bison in double figures for the night with 14 points.
After shooting 60 percent in the first half, the Bison went 23-of-29 from the field in the second half for 79.3 percent. The team shot 68 percent for the game.
OBU has another exhibition against yet another former District 9 foe on Thursday when the Bison travel to Durant to take on Southeastern Oklahoma State. OBU returns home Saturday to play College of the Southwest in the Homecoming Game at 3:30 p.m.
11/09/2009 at Shawnee, Okla.
Oklahoma Baptist 123, East Central 94
Oklahoma Baptist
Nate Brumfield 16-21 7-8 39; AJ Hawkins 14-15 6-10 34; Emmanuel Wilson
6-9 0-2 14; Garrett Steinmetz 3-9 1-2 9; Tim Bowman 2-6 2-2 7; Jerrod
Tillmon 3-5 0-0 6; Heath McKay 0-0 5-6 5; Danny Derry 2-2 0-0 4; Tyler
Parker 0-0 3-6 3; Mirko Vojinovic 1-1 0-0 2; Kris Moore 0-0 0-0 0;
Hayden Blessing 0-0 0-0 0; Jake Duvall 0-0 0-0 0; Totals 47-69 24-36
123.
ECU
Eric Allen 11-22 0-0 23; Wayne Andrews 9-18 3-5 22; Maurice Abraham
7-17 0-0 17; Denarius Darby 6-13 1-2 16; Dontae Figgs 3-8 0-0 7;
Terrence Hill 2-9 0-0 4; Lanard Donnell 1-4 0-0 3; Wes Badley 1-2 0-0 2;
Wes May 0-0 0-0 0; Jarrett Brandon 0-0 0-1 0; Darren Avery 0-0 0-0 0;
Justin Prothro 0-0 0-0 0; Totals 40-93 4-8 94.
Oklahoma Baptist 62 61 - 123
ECU 42 52 - 94
3-point goals-Oklahoma Baptist 5-10 (Emmanuel Wilson 2-3; Garrett
Steinmetz 2-5; Tim Bowman 1-1; Jerrod Tillmon 0-1) , ECU 10-40 (Maurice
Abraham 3-7; Denarius Darby 3-8; Dontae Figgs 1-4; Eric Allen 1-8;
Lanard Donnell 1-4; Wayne Andrews 1-5; Terrence Hill 0-4) . Fouled
out--Oklahoma Baptist-None, ECU-Maurice Abraham, Wayne Andrews.
Rebounds-Oklahoma Baptist 46 (AJ Hawkins 11) , ECU 36 (Eric Allen 9) .
Assists-Oklahoma Baptist 21 (Tim Bowman 5; AJ Hawkins 5) , ECU 10
(Lanard Donnell 2; Terrence Hill 2) .
