[NU Sports] Cats Win

[prplehaze at insightbb.com]

The Basketball Cats opened the season with a win in Wyoming, beating Lehigh
61-59 behind Vedran's 25 points, including the go-ahead bucket with 12 seconds
left.  I didn't listen to the game, but according to the accounts I've read,
Lehigh built a  double-digit lead in the second half before the Cats battled back.  

As expected, Vedran lead the Cats in scoring.  From the box score it appears
that Doyle had a good game with 14 points and 6 assists.  Michael Thompson was a
non-factor again, which is not a good sign for the future.

In a surprise to me, Seacat started over Jenkins, although both of them and
Hachad all played about the same number of minutes.  Thompson only played 14
minutes, which may account for his lack of numbers.  I don't know if that was
due to his lack of conditioning in that he may still be recovering from injury
or that he just wasn't playing well.  Scott played 27 minutes, had 8 points but
only 1 rebound.  We need better rebounding out of the post if we are going to
compete in the conference this year.

Tonight we take on Charlotte, which should prove a most difficult test.  Lutz is
an excellent coach and he has a team which should contend for the Atlantic 10
title this year, its first in the league.  Th4 49er's best player is 6'8" senior
forward Curtis Withers, who is a candidate for A-10 player of the year and
should give Doyle or Vedran all he can handle.  A win over Charlotte would be an
enormous boost at the beginning of the season, a marked change from last year.
Go Cats!

Mark

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