Dec. 18, 2006
Box Score
Southern University got 17 points from freshman Douglas Scott
and 10 points from sophomore guard Steffon Wiley to get its first win of the
year, a 62-47 victory over Louisiana Tech at the F.G. Clark Activity Center
on Saturday night.
After a pre-conference schedule that included losses to Georgia,
Wisconsin, Oklahoma State and Florida, the Jaguars (1-10) took on their in-state
neighbors from Ruston for the second time in a week.
After losing 74-66 on Dec. 9, SU was determined that this night
was the night they would break into the win column. This is also the second
time in two seasons that Rob Spivery's Jaguars picked up their first win
at home versus LaTech.
After falling behind for the only time at 2-0, the Jaguars
went on a 22-2 run to sprint out to a 22-4 lead.
SU clamped down defensively on Tech (2-7) all night, not letting
the Bulldogs get close until an 8-0 run at the end of the half cut the lead
to 10 at the break.
Southern's leading scorer, Deforrest Riley-Smith, was
held to four points after getting into foul trouble early in the second half,
but that didn't seem to bother the Jaguars.
The second half was a half of spurts, Tech pulling to as close
as eight points with the first basket of the half before Southern got back on
track, eventually getting the lead back to as much as 16 twice in the half.
Along with leading all scorers with his 14 points, Scott had
seven rebounds and a blocked shot. Geri Guillory had eight rebounds for SU while
Chris Davis finished 6-7 from the free throw line for nine points.
Louisiana Tech was led in scoring by Chad McKenzie, who was
the only Bulldog in double figures with 10 points.
"That's how it's going to be all game, every
game," he said. "Defensive effort and rebounding the basketball
is going to give us a chance. "Tonight we came out with the defensive
intensity to allow ourselves to get off to a good start."
"That's good to see," Spivery said of the
other players' effort. "We're still trying to determine what
kind of team we're going to be.
Southern is now off until a December 3th matchup with the University
of Missouri in Columbia, MO.
