East Tennessee State Defeats Campbell 87-57 In Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball

Monday, February 5, 2007

JOHNSON CITY, TENN. - Dequan Twilley led four players in double figures with 15 points and East Tennessee State defeated Campbell 87-57 in Atlantic Sun men's basketball action Monday at the Memorial Center.

Courtney Pigram and Eryk Thomas added 13 points each for ETSU, while Andrew Reed had 10. The Buccaneers (18-7, 12-1) stretched their win streak to 10 games, the program's longest since a 15-game string in 2003-04.

Campbell (10-13, 5-8) fell to 1-11 on the road this year while dropping its third-straight game. Freshman Kyle Vejraska was the lone Camel in double figures with 16 points. Campbell shot a season-low 27.3 percent (15-55) from the floor. Jonathan Rodriguez, who entered the game as the league's third-leading scorer (16.7), finished with eight points on 1-of-10 shots, plus 6-of-10 from the line.

ETSU converted 24 Campbell turnovers into 35 points. The Bucs shot 48.6 percent from the floor and knocked down 11-of-26 threes. Twilley made 5-of-9 from long range.

A 13-0 ETSU run started a 32-7 rally and the Bucs led 38-17 on Smith's transition lay-up with 3:32 to play in the opening half. Campbell made just one field goal - Smith's three with 18 seconds left - in the last 7:20 of the first half and trailed 43-23 at the break.

Campbell made just 7-of-29 shots in the first half (.241) and had 14 turnovers. ETSU made 19-of-40 from the floor (.475), and held a 20-4 edge in points off turnovers. Thomas, Brad Nuckles and Mike Smith each had eight first-half points.

ETSU stretched the lead to 70-39 with 11:44 remaining as Twilley hit a trio of threes in the first 8:16 of the second period.

Campbell returns to action Thursday when it hosts Stetson in a 7:00 p.m. tip-off at Carter Gym.