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Jason Shields dribbles the ball with his left hand past a defender near the endline
71
Winner Holy Family HOLY FAM 5-1, 0-0
56
Dist. Columbia DIST. CO 2-4, 0-0
Winner
Holy Family HOLY FAM
5-1, 0-0
71
Final
56
Dist. Columbia DIST. CO
2-4, 0-0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Holy Family HOLY FAM 18 53 71
Dist. Columbia DIST. CO 33 23 56

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Men’s Basketball’s Overcomes Halftime Deficit with Dominant Second Half in 71-56 Win at UDC

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Holy Family University's men's ball team overcame an 18-33 halftime deficit with a dominant 53-23 second half in a 71-56 triumph at the University of the District of Columbia on Tuesday night. 
 
HFU opened the second half with the first nine points as part of a 17-4 run, with Ryan Holmes (Philadelphia, Pa./William Penn Charter School) and Jason Shields (Scranton, Pa./Scranton) combining for 13 as the latter's 3-pointer cut the deficit to 35-37 less than four minutes out of the locker room. 
 
Trailing 38-42, Tairi Ketner (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) netted six straight points for the Tigers' first lead with 12:31 remaining. 
 
The Firebirds tied it up at 44 for 22 seconds, only for Holy Family to go ahead for good on CJ Mundell's (Somerdale, N.J./Sterling) 3-pointer with 10:34 to go. 
 
That sparked 12 unanswered that featured points from five different Tigers, as Vernon Johnson's (Teaneck, N.J./Teaneck) 3-pointer put HFU ahead by double-digits for good, 54-44, with 7:37 on the clock. 
 
Individual Highlights
  • Shields led all players with a career-best seven assists and added 14 points, while Holmes also finished in double-figures with 11 points
  • Ketner recorded a team-high 16 points on 8-of-12 shooting and a game-high 10 rebounds for his second straight double-double
  • Mundell was second on Holy Family with seven rebounds, to go along with seven points
  • Omarion Jett (Montclair, N.J./Saint Benedict's Prep) was right behind Shields with six assists, to go along with eight points
    • He also tied a game-high with of blocks with Najee Coursey (Egg Harbor City, N.J./Cedar Creek), who matched Shields and Ketner with a team-high two steals
 
Inside the Box Score
  • Holy Family shot 61.3 percent (19-of-31) from the floor in the second half, including making 6-of-12 from beyond the arc
  • Meanwhile, District of Columbia managed just 28.0 percent (7-of-25), including making just 1-of-4 3-point attempts
 
Up Next
Holy Family returns home for the first time in over two and a half weeks on Sunday when it hosts East Stroudsburg at 3 p.m. 
 
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