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<p>DALLAS TWP. &#8212; Izzi Metz really didn&#8217;t think too hard about it.</p><p>His Wilkes Colonels had just held on for an 87-82 overtime win at Misericordia, and thanks to some other results around the league, his team found themselves sitting on top of the Freedom Conference.</p><p>A great position to be after seven games, right?</p><p>&#8220;Of course, I&#8217;m pleased. But I don&#8217;t judge it by what place we are in, because we have seven more conference games left,&#8221; said the Wilkes men&#8217;s basketball coach. &#8220;You can ask our guys. It&#8217;s about winning the next game, and that&#8217;s against Delaware Valley on Saturday. That&#8217;s the only thing we are looking at.&#8221;</p><p>Metz&#8217;s squad can definitely bring momentum into the second half of the conference schedule after the overtime win.</p><p>Wilkes (13-5, 6-1) had an early 11-point second-half lead but had to withstand a ferocious Cougars rally. Two Jason Kenny buckets and a textbook give-and-go from Kenny to Stone McCreary gave Misericordia (10-8, 5-2) its first lead of the second half, 63-57, with seven minutes remaining.</p><p>But behind the play of Mark Mullins, who scored a team-high 21 points with three dunks mixed in, the Colonels rallied and found themselves in a 71-71 tie with 49 ticks left in regulation.</p><p>Both teams tallied two more points in regulation, and Wilkes had a chance to win with 2.1 seconds remaining. But Rob Pecorelli&#8217;s half-court heave was just right of the hoop, sending the game into overtime.</p><p>&#8220;I thought both teams were a little tired down the stretch,&#8221; Metz said. &#8220;Both teams had players that logged a lot of minutes. Our team fights, so I felt good that we had a pretty resilient group. I know how good Misericordia is, and they can really score. I felt that we could perform when we needed to.&#8221;</p><p>It was all Wilkes in overtime.</p><p>The Colonels scored the first nine points in the session as Misericordia missed all six of its free-throw attempts in OT, and hit just 9 of 22 from the charity stripe on the night.</p><p>Yet, two threes by Kenny and a wide-open right-wing 3-pointer from Brendan Leonard left the Cougars down just three with 12 seconds left. Misericordia was left to foul, and Mullins dropped both free throws through the nylon for the 87-82 edge.</p><p>&#8220;Wilkes has a good team. And to miss all of those free throws and still have a chance, it says something about our team,&#8221; Misericordia coach Willie Chandler said. &#8220;They just played better than us tonight, and they deserved to win.&#8221;</p><p>The Cougars got off to another slow start, down 8-2 early, and were held to just three points in the final 7:24 of the first half. Wilkes closed on a 19-3 run to take an eight-point advantage into the locker room.</p><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have that offensive rhythm. We were a little too stagnant.&#8221; Chandler said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Jason or Tony (Harding) played well tonight. But we had some other guys step up. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve played well yet as a team. I thought the first game against Manhattanville was the best one we&#8217;ve played all year in the conference.</p><p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t had a good start in any conference game, and it&#8217;s coming back to bite us. It takes a lot of energy to come back, and it wears on you.&#8221;</p><p>Mullins&#8217; two-handed slam early in the second half gave the Colonels their biggest lead of the night, up 42-31 with 18 minutes left. But the Cougars scored 32 of the next 47 points, going up 63-57 with six minutes left.</p><p>Wilkes had six players in double digits, paced by Mullins&#8217; 21 points and Landon Henry&#8217;s double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds). Kenny and McCreary scored 44 of Misericordia&#8217;s 82 points, while Harding added 12 in the loss.</p><p><strong>DeSales 103, King&#8217;s 78</strong></p><p>Lenny Radziak came off the bench with 17 points for King&#8217;s, but the Monarchs couldn&#8217;t match the firepower of DeSales.</p><p>DeSales made 20-of-26 shots and went 10 of 15 from the foul line in the game&#8217;s opening 20 minutes to build a 52-30 halftime lead.</p><p>Radziak scored 17 points in 16 minutes in a reserve role for King&#8217;s, while Connor Callejas finished with 14 points and Noah Tanner and Joshua Bailey added 11 and 10, respectively, in the loss.</p><p>Tracy Simsick led DeSales with 19 points while Kweku Dawson-Amoah followed with 17 points and eight rebounds. Luke Conaghan and Connor James chipped in with 11 and 10 points, respectively. DeSales also owned a 42-20 rebounding advantage over the Monarchs.</p><p><strong>WOMEN&#8217;S BASKETBALL</strong></p><p><strong>King&#8217;s 55, DeSales 50</strong></p><p>The Lady Monarchs posted an important Freedom Conference victory over DeSales. King&#8217;s overcame a 20-12 first quarter deficit by outscoring DeSales 17-4 in the second quarter to take a 29-24 lead at the half.</p><p>With the Monarchs leading 53-50 with under 10 seconds to play DeSales had a chance to tie the game. But the King&#8217;s defense came up big when Alexis Steeber stole a pass in the King&#8217;s defensive end of the and raced in for an uncontested lay-up with five seconds on the clock to seal the victory.</p><p>Steeber led King&#8217;s with 12 points and five rebounds. Rebecca Prociak posted her seventh double-double of the year with 11 points, 10 rebounds, and three assists. Mackenzie Yori added 11 points, seven rebounds, while Olivia Hoffman contributed eight points, nine rebounds, five assists, and four blocked shots.</p><p><strong>Misericordia 89, Wilkes 33</strong></p><p>The Cougars scored as many points in the first quarter (20) as Wilkes did in the first three frames as Misericordia coasted to a 56-point win.</p><p>Thirteen different Cougars scored in the game, led by Quintessa Zamolyi&#8217;s 13 points. Maddie Kelly topped the Lady Colonels with eight.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>MEN&#8217;S BASKETBALL</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Wilkes 87, Misericordia 82, OT</strong></p><p><strong>WILKES (87) &#8212; </strong>Connor Evans 3 6-8 13, Marcus Robinson 2 5-8 10, Rob Pecorelli 5 2-6 14, Mark Mullins 9 3-5 21, Zach Brunner 4 5-5 13, Landon Henry 1 0-0 3, Tommy Bowen 4 2-2 10, John Groffredo 0 0-0 0, Jack Bova 0 0-0 0, Mason Gross 0 3-4 3. <strong>Totals 28 26-38 87.</strong></p><p><strong>MISERICORDIA (82) &#8212; </strong>Tyerell Mann 2 0-0 4, Alec Rodway 0 0-2 0, Tre&#8217; Fields 5 3-5 14, Patrick Douthit 1 0-0 2, Jason Kenny 8 4-7 23, Stone McCreary 9 4-7 21, Tony Harding 5 1-4 12, Brendan Leonard 1 0-0 3, Bryce Mondorff 1 0-0 3. <strong>Totals 32 9-22 82.</strong></p><p><strong>Wilkes`37`36`14 &#8211; 87</strong></p><p><strong>Misericordia`29`44`9 &#8211; 82</strong></p><p><strong>Three-point field goals &#8212;</strong> WU 5 (Evans 1, Robinson 1, Pecorelli 2, Henry 10); MU 9 (Kenny 3, McCreary 2, Fields 1, Harding 1, Leonard 1, Mondorff 1).</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Wilkes' Zach Brunner, left, reaches for a rebound ahead of Misericordia's Bryce Mondorff in Dallas Township on Wednesday.  Bill Tarutis | For Times Leader</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/web1_TTL012518Wilkes-MU_spt_4-2-.jpg</photo0><caption0>Wilkes' Zach Brunner, left, reaches for a rebound ahead of Misericordia's Bryce Mondorff in Dallas Township on Wednesday.  Bill Tarutis | For Times Leader</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/web1_TTL012518Wilkes-MU_spt_3-1-.jpg">
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First-place battle: Wilkes men’s basketball beats Misericordia in overtime