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Drew Weir
Emily Tallis
73
Winner Geneva GEN 11-11,9-8 PAC
67
Westminster (PA) WES 7-15,4-13 PAC
Winner
Geneva GEN
11-11,9-8 PAC
73
Final
67
Westminster (PA) WES
7-15,4-13 PAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Geneva GEN 35 38 73
Westminster (PA) WES 34 33 67

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Titans edged at home

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.--The Westminster College men's basketball program suffered a 73-67 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) loss to visiting Geneva College Wednesday night at Ron Galbreath Court inside Buzz Ridl Gymnasium.

Geneva improved to 11-11 overall and 8-8 in the league with the win. Westminster fell to 7-15 overall and 4-13 in the PAC. Eleven of the last 12 matchups between the longtime rivals have been decided by eight points or less. 

Junior guard Drew Weir (Salem, Ohio, Salem) led Westminster with 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting. He added four rebounds and three steals. Weir now has eight 20-point games this season and has gone for 20 or more points in seven of Westminster's last nine. Junior guard Mick Hergenrother (Canfield, Ohio, Cardinal Mooney) had 15 points, four rebounds and three assists. Junior center Alex Rothwell (New Middletown, Ohio, Springfield Local) chipped in with 10 points and eight rebounds while sophomore guard Brady DePietro (Boardman, Ohio, Boardman) added 10 points and four rebounds. 

Ryan Rachic led Geneva with a 25-point, 12-rebound double-double. Mark Rachic, Trevor Tipton and Nick Million finished with 11 each. 

Neither team led by more the five in a tightly-contested opening half, which featured two ties and nine lead changes. A Weir jumper with 32 seconds to go before the break led to a one-point lead, 34-33, before Rachic's bucket with 10 seconds left sent Geneva into halftime up one, 35-34. Weir was 4-of-7 for 11 points in the first while DePietro was 3-of-4 from the floor, and knocked down a pair of three-pointers, for eight first half points. Mark Rachic paced the Golden Tornadoes with 11 points and five rebounds. 

Geneva and Westminster traded three-pointers early in the second before Ryan Rachic's stepback jumper stretched the Golden Tornadoes' lead to six, 43-37, with just under two minutes elapsed. Weir's two-handed slam on an inbounds delivery from Hergenrother cut the lead to two, 59-57, with 8:34 left. Sophomore guard Skevos Kouros' (Youngstown, Ohio, Campbell) layup with just under three minutes left in regulation trimmed Geneva's lead to just one, 65-64, before Ryan Rachic followed up a made three-pointer with a pair of free throws that extended the lead to six, 70-64, with under two minutes left.

Westminster shot 45.1 percent (23-51) from the floor and hit five of 15 (.333) attempted three-pointers. The Titans finished 16-of-26 (.615) from the free throw line. Geneva finished with a 41-31 rebounding advantage and a 14-7 edge on the offensive glass.

Up Next
Westminster wraps up its home schedule Saturday against Franciscan University. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.
 
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