Dec. 1, 2005

Box Score

ROMEOVILLE - Dustin Warfield and Brandon Dagans combined for 27 points off the bench Thursday night in the Lewis University men's basketball team's 94-63 loss to nationally ranked Saint Joseph's in the Great Lakes Valley Conference opener for both teams.

Warfield was 5-of-7 from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers, and scored a team-high 14 points, while Dagans tallied 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting. Dagans added a team-high four assists and Stephan Bolt collected a team-high five rebounds.

Saint Joseph's, ranked No. 13 in this week's NCAA Division II national poll, got 22 points and five assists from Sullivan Sykes, 21 points and nine rebounds from Derek Fey, 12 points, four assists and four steals from Rashad McSwine and four steals from Blake Schoen.

The Pumas (5-0) shot 58 percent overall - 65 percent in the second half - and 55 percent (11-of-20) from 3-point range. McSwine was 4-of-7 and Fey was 3-of-4 from beyond the arc. Saint Joseph's won the rebounding battle 34-20 and forced 27 Lewis turnovers.

The Flyers (3-2) shot 49 percent from the floor and 85 percent (17-of-20) at the foul line.

Lewis survived an initial blitz that saw Saint Joseph's establish a 17-4 lead at the 14:22 mark. The Flyers assembled their own 13-6 run, with Warfield scoring seven of his 10 first-half points, to cut the Puma margin to 23-17 with 8:04 to play in the first half.

But Fey's 3-pointer with 4:33 left gave Saint Joseph's a 31-19 lead, and the margin remained in double figures the rest of the way. The Pumas led 41-26 at the break.

Lewis hosts Indianapolis Saturday at 3 p.m. in another GLVC contest.