NASHVILLE, TENN.-Ian Clark led four Bruins in double figures with a
game-high 20 points, pacing Belmont to a 90-55 Atlantic Sun win
over Campbell Saturday night inside the Curb Event Center.
Belmont moves to 16-3 on the year and a perfect 8-0 in A-Sun play
with its sixth consecutive win. The Camels, meanwhile, fall to 9-7
overall and 3-4 in league games.
Clark, a sophomore guard, connected on 7-of-8 attempts from the
floor, including 4-of-4 from distance, adding five assists. Junior
center Mick Hedgepeth poured in 16 points for the Bruins with three
blocks, while Scott Saunders, another junior center, registered
another 16 points in the win. Freshman guard JJ Mann tallied 10
points with three rebounds and three assists.
Redshirt junior guard Cole
Dewey and freshman guard Rico
Ferguson paced Campbell with 11 points apiece. Dewey scored all
of his career-high 11 in the second half, while Ferguson poured in
10 points in the second frame, adding five rebounds.
Freshman forward Marvelle
Harris tacked on six points and six boards in the loss, while
Lorne
Merthie, Anthony
Dees and Anthony
Horton posted five points each. Martell
Jackson added five rebounds.
The Bruins jumped out to an early 13-5 lead behind five points from
Clark and four from Saunders. After Merthie cut the lead to six
with a jumper at the 13:57 mark, Belmont piled on a 21-1 blitz
before Griffin tallied the next Campbell field goal with 4:33 to
play in the first half. Belmont took a 45-14 lead into the break,
the Camels' largest first half deficit of the season.
Up 34 at the break, Belmont extended its lead to 40, 54-14, at the
17:03 mark on Clark's fourth three point basket.
Despite Campbell shooting 57.7 percent in the second half, the
Camels could not climb out from the Belmont advantage, which
reached as many as 43 in the final stanza. The Bruins took the
90-55 win.
The Camels will be back in action on Monday, remaining in the Music
City for a 7 p.m. contest at Lipscomb.