By Staff
ERIKA PICKLES / Niles Daily Star
BERRIEN SPRINGS - The Bobcats suffered a Lakeland Conference loss Friday night at Berrien Springs 68-42.
Brandywine, now 0-6 in conference, 1-10 overall, got off to a slow start and only scored one point in the first four minutes of play.
Brett Shoemaker scored the first two points 3:59 into the quarter.
Mike Nagy, Bill Bussey and Alex Newman all contributed points to the Bobcats' score. Berrien Springs ended the first quarter leading, 18-10.
D.J. Elrod gave Brandywine its first two points of the second quarter. Brandywine had some troubles rebounding the ball and left quite a few Berrien Springs players open, allowing them to go up by more than 15 points halfway through the second.
Brandywine went into halftime down 36-15
Elrod once again scored the first three points for the Bobcats in the third quarter. Shoemaker, Bussey and Zach Bennett had a combined total of eight points for Brandywine in the quarter. The Bobcats played a lot better and look more comfortable in the third, but they still had a big hole to fill and ended the third down 54-26.
Adam Prescott was able to grab his own rebound on a missed shot and put it in for Branywine to start the final quarter. Shoemaker scored the next eight points in a row for the Bobcats, two of them being from the free throw line. He was the only player for Brandywine able to go 2-2 at the line.
Shoemaker had a career-high 20 points for the Bobcats.
Brandywine hosts Bridgman Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
BRANDYWINE 42
Mike Nagy 1 4-2 4, Alex Newman 0 1 3-0 3, Matt Weiger 0 0-0 0, Adam Prescott 1 0-0 2, Zach bennett 1 0-0 2, Justin Ely 0 0-0 0, D.J. Elrod 1 1 2-1 6, Bill Bussey 2 3-1 5, Kyle Low 0 0-0 0, Matt Beaver 0 0-0 0, Brett Shoemaker 8 4-4 20.
BERRIEN SPRINGS 68
Ryan Little 1 0-0 2, Jeremy Eddie 0 2-1 1, James Lockett 5 0-0 10, Matt Demler 5 404 14, Shelby Wood 4 2 0-0 14, Dowin Coffy 4 1 6-4 15, Ben Collard 0 0-0 0, Jon Chansa 2 0-0 4, Matt Jasper 0 0-0 0, Vicent Ruhumuliza 4 0-0 8, Jeremy Cummings 0 2-0 0.
Berrien Springs 18 36 54 68
Brandywine 10 15 26 42