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Cam Evans - Kenyon
66
Kenyon Kenyon 1-6,0-0 NCAC
79
Winner Otterbein OTT 3-2,0-0 OAC
Kenyon Kenyon
1-6,0-0 NCAC
66
Final
79
Otterbein OTT
3-2,0-0 OAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Kenyon Kenyon 36 30 66
Otterbein OTT 31 48 79

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Written by Wes Mayberry (Photo by Abreaham Belcher)

Evans scores career-high 31 points to lead Men's Basketball to 79-66 win over Kenyon

WESTERVILLE — Graduate student Cam Evans scored a career-high 31 points to lead the Otterbein men's basketball team to a 79-66 win over Kenyon on Sunday afternoon.

The Basics
  • Records: Otterbein (3-2 overall), Kenyon (1-6 overall)
  • Venue: Rike Center - Westerville, Ohio
Otterbein Stat Leaders
  • Evans added three rebounds, two assists and a team-high three steals to his 31 points. He was 4-for-9 from 3-point range and 3-for-4 from the foul line.
  • Junior Julian Heckman tallied 15 points and three rebounds. He was 3-for-6 from 3-point range and 4-for-4 from the foul line.
  • Senior Jared Kreager was a perfect 3-for-3 from 3-point range and finished with 11 points, four rebounds and two assists.
  • Junior Troy Scowden tallied nine points and a team-high nine rebounds.
  • Redshirt junior Jarius Jones posted seven points and six rebounds.
  • Sophomore Chase Garito finished with six points and seven rebounds.
Game Highlights
  • First Half: Otterbein came out strong, opening up a 14-2 lead with 15:22 left. Jones and Garito had four points apiece in that stretch to go with three each from Kreager and Heckman. The Owls gradually gut into that lead, but a 3-pointer from Evans kept the Cardinals up 17-13 with 10:29 left. Kenyon took its first lead of the game, 18-17, on a triple with 9:25 remaining, eventually opening up a 30-21 edge with 4:58 left. Otterbein was able to keep it close over the latter stages of the half, capping the scoring with a 3-pointer from Evans to go into halftime trailing 36-31.
  • Second Half: Kenyon stretched the lead to 39-31 to open the second half, but Otterbein was able to chip away. A 3-pointer from Kreager tied the score at 44 with 14:27 remaining, and the Cardinals seized that momentum to eventually go up 58-50 on a triple from Heckman. As the Owls tried to make a comeback, Evans began to take over offensively to keep the Owls at bay. Evans was responsible for the Cardinals' next seven points as they stretched the lead to 11, 65-54 with 4:19 left. He added seven more points down the stretch, and Heckman capped the scoring with a 3-pointer with six seconds left to seal the double-digit victory.
  • Key Team Stats: Otterbein shot 46.8% from the field and was 10-of-27 (37%) from 3-point range. Kenyon shot 45.2% from the field and was 2-of-14 (14.3%) from 3-point range. The Cardinals were 11-of-17 (64.7%) from the foul line, while the Owls were 8-of-11 (72.7%). Otterbein out-rebounded Kenyon by a 38-36 margin.
Quotes
  • Head coach Andy Winters: "I was proud of our upperclassmen today. They found ways to win in a game of runs. Credit to Cam for helping us from a scoring standpoint, but guys like Brennan Rains played 20 minutes, and his minutes have kind of been up and down all year. Jared Kreager was in the starting lineup for the first time and guarded the other team's best player. Overall, I'm proud of our upperclassmen for how they responded today coming off of a loss on Tuesday."
  • Graduate student Cam Evans: "It feels awesome to have scored a career high. It's all thanks to my teammates and my coaches running plays for me and getting me in the right spots and trusting the work that we put in here every single day. I'm glad that we got the win. I think we could tighten up defensively a little bit, but we were taking the right shots, and everybody was touching the ball when they needed to."
Notables
  • Head coach Andy Winters is in his sixth year at Otterbein and has an all-time record of 61-56 at the helm of the Cardinals.
  • Evans' previous career-high scoring total was 29 points against Capital on Dec. 3, 2022.
  • Evans ranks 17th all-time at Otterbein in career scoring with 1,313 points. Don Brough ('75-'79) ranks 16th with 1,345 points.
  • Saturday's game marked the last of four straight contests against North Coast Athletic Conference opponents for Otterbein. The Cardinals fell 88-77 to Wooster on Nov. 17, won 63-59 at Ohio Wesleyan on Nov. 23 and dropped a 58-44 game at Denison on Nov. 26.
  • Otterbein opens its Ohio Athletic Conference schedule on Dec. 7 at Baldwin Wallace.
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