Cody Williams is a DOUBLE/DOUBLE Machine

Orange Shuts Down Run-n-gun Senators

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Stone Ridge, NY - The SUNY Orange basketball team came into this Mid-Hudson Conference match up determined not to trade baskets with Ulster all night long. Orange's stingy defense held the Senators to a season low 65 points. Ulster came into the game averaging in the high 90's. Orange was able to impose it's defensive resolve upon Ulster to cruise to a 93-65 victory.


While Orange wasn't firing on all cylinders on the boards in the first half the team more than made up for it with blocked shots. The Colts made the game look like a beach volley ball match with all the spikes they had in the first half. Ryan McNeill-Moses led the way with 5 blocks and 12 rebounds. . The Colt defense held the fifth best scorer in the county to 12 points under his season average. Chris Austin came into the game averaging 27 points a game including four made three pointers per contest. In this game Malcolm Covington, Ray Joyner, and Marian Smith all took turns to hold the National Player of the week to 15 points and zero three's.

On the offensive end Orange was in control the entire game. Orange took the lead on the first possession of the game and never trailed. Orange used key runs in each half to extend the lead to comfortable margins. In the first half Orange was up 16-14 when it went on a 12-0 run to jump out to a 28-14 lead. That run was sparked by Marian Smith's five points and Ryan McNeill-Moses 4 points. When Orange fell into some foul trouble Shaq Green stepped up big time and scored 10 points in the final six minutes of the half to help the Colts maintain a 40-30 lead at intermission. Shaq had by far his best game of the year. He scored 19 points on seven field goals and was a perfect 5 for 5 from the charity stripe. In the second half Orange went on a similar run outscoring Ulster 15-4 over a six minute period to put the game away. In that run Shaq and Cody Williams both had six points each. Overall Orange shot 16-20 from the line. Marian Smith also had 19 for Orange and knocked down 3 three's. After having only 2 points in the first half, Williams took advantage of his penetrating team mates' good passes to tally 17 for the game. Williams continues to be a double double machine adding 10 rebounds. Malcolm Covington, Ryan McNeill-Moses and Avery West scored 9 points apiece for the balanced scoring Colts. Covington completed his stat line with 6 assists, while Smith had five assists and five rebounds.

Orange raises it's record to 6-3 on the year and is now 2-1 in the Mid-Hudson Conference. Ulster has now lost four games in a row and falls to 5-4. The Senators are 2-2 in the Conference. Orange resumes play Thursday night at Columbia-Green for a 6 p.m. tip-off. Columbia-Green is coached by Walter Rickard, Orange head coach Tom Rickard's brother. The friendly sibling rivalry is normally an event not to be missed.

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