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St. Mary's City, Md. - Top-seeded St. Mary's
College of Maryland showed its mettle tonight in the Capital
Athletic Conference semifinals as the nationally-ranked Seahawks
easily disposed of No. 5 seed Marymount (Va.) University, 95-62,
behind a game-high 33 points from senior guard Camontae
Griffin (Baltimore, Md./Dunbar).
The Seahawks were able to exact revenge tonight as St. Mary's
avenged last year's semifinal loss to Marymount which knocked out
St. Mary's from the CAC title game and a chance at a second
straight NCAA berth.
No. 14 St. Mary's (23-3) now advances to Saturday's conference
championship match-up with the defending champion and third-seeded
Wesley College, who knocked off the No. 2 team in the tournament,
York (Pa.) College, 94-81, as four Wolverines finished in double
figures.
Tip-off on Saturday will be at 2:00 pm in the Michael P. O'Brien
Athletics & Recreation Center. Tickets for the CAC
tournament are as follows: Adults (and senior citizens) - $6,
Students - $3.
Griffin was 14-of-21 from the field, including
4-of-5 from downtown, while junior center Sam
Burum (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) matched career-highs
with 18 points and three assists along with a career-best five
steals and team-best seven rebounds. Junior guard
Alex Franz (Catonsville, Md./Cardinal Gibbons)
joined in the action with 10 points, a career-high nine steals,
eight assists, and seven boards.
Marymount (15-12) rushed out to a 9-4 lead as senior forward
Elvis Ellis (Rockville, Md./Magruder) notched
seven in the run. However, the Seahawks quickly overcame a
flat start to the game as Franz sparked a 10-2 run
with his three-pointer at 16:40. Griffin
capped the run with a long-range bomb of his own to give St. Mary's
its first lead of the game.
The Seahawks never relinquished that lead and Marymount found
itself looking at a 46-31 halftime deficit as
Griffin led all players with 20 points in 18
minutes of play.
Junior center Sam Sentz (Gaithersburg,
Md./Bullis) paced the Saints in their season finale with 14 points
as Sentz went 6-of-8 from the line and grabbed a
team-best six boards. Ellis also finished in
double figures with 12 points while guards Ronnie
Barbour (Upper Marlboro, Md./Frederick Douglass) and
Tarek Ammoury (McLean, Va./McLean) each added 10
points.
Turnovers plagued Marymount throughout the contest as the Saints
finished the game with 25 miscues. St. Mary's definitely took
advantage, notching 48 points off turnovers alone.
The closest the visitors came within was a 13-point gap
following a made layup by Ammoury at 19:17.
But a 17-0 surge by the Seahawks in a three-and-a-half minute span
dug the hole too deep for Marymount and the Saints lapsed into a
63-33 shortfall at 14:38 following a dunk by Burum
which they could not comeback from.
