Ants BayHawks overwhelmed by caliber NBA

By the time the Erie Mad Ants do it again in three weeks ago at the Memorial Coliseum, three of which were part BayHawks its 113-100 victory on Sunday ants are likely to have changed her bus seat D NBA-League charter. Already this season, six players have been reassigned to the NBA Development League of the NBA, and half of them are in the Erie team that left town with a two-game sweep after winning Friday and Sunday. "The problem with this team is when you play, they come off the bench better than they did with their owners," said coach Joey Meyer ants. "That's a very talented team." Solomon Alabi, a seven-foot center of a game that speaks four languages, is the property of the Toronto Raptors. He had nine points, eight rebounds, three blocked shots and altered at least a half dozen shots inside Mad Ants. After the bank was 10.6 North Carolina product Ed Davis, the No. 13 overall pick of the Raptors in the 2010 NBA draft who scored 10 points, five rebounds and four blocks, and 6-5 Eyenga Christian, a wing of Cleveland Cavaliers, who added 11 points. With Erie dominant inside presence, the BayHawks, who shot 55 percent in Friday's win was even better on Sunday, shooting 58 percent (43 of 74). "They killed something like 68 percent in the first half," said Meyer. "I do not care who you are playing, we will not beat a team when they shoot the ball very well." The Ants (2-2) got behind early, then behind a lot. A deficit of 22 to 18 are turned into 29-18 late in the first quarter, then 37-20, then 80-52 with five minutes left in the third.

But the ants 6.5 guard Obi Muonelo was heated and scored seven points in less than a minute and a half. And 6-7 small forward Marvin Phillips crashed the boards and gave life to the team and the building. And when Muonelo fell on a triple with 7:19 left, the ants crawled to within 93 to 86. Erie, however, responded with 13 unanswered points to get back to 104-86. "In some areas we are still trying to understand each other," said Phillips, who had 17 points, 13 rebounds, four assists, three blocks and two steals. "Every game ever better. I think (Sunday) that actually saw what we were together. We do not crumble and still working hard. Showed that we will not be one of those teams that if they go on a major losing streak, we will not crumble. We all work hard. "

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Terrelle Pryor Leads Buckeyes Past Hawkeyes In Big Ten Showdown

Buckeyes quarterback Terrelle Pryor rallied his team from behind, and Dan Herron scored the game-winning touchdown with under two minutes remaining as No. 8 Ohio State emerged with a 20-17 win over No. 21 Iowa.

Pryor passed for 195 yards and rushed for 78 more, including a key 14-yard scramble for first down on the go-ahead drive. But it was Herron's bruising one-yard touchdown run with 1:47 on the clock that gave the Buckeyes their fourth straight win and kept them in a tie for the conference lead.

Ohio State (10-1, 6-1 Big Ten) remained knotted with Wisconsin and Michigan State atop the standings.

Iowa (7-4, 4-3) suffered its second straight loss and fell two games back in the Big Ten.

A frustrated Pryor pulled his helmet off and stared at the ground after DeVier Posey dropped a 50-yard pass in the right side of the end zone, letting a sure TD slip through his hands.

But his bitterness quickly turned to jubilation during a go-ahead drive that was saved for the Buckeyes by their slippery quarterback.

Pryor scrambled 14 yards for a first down two plays after Posey's drop, setting up the rest of a 76-yard drive that culminated in Herron's burst over the goal line to make it 20-17 Ohio State with 1:47 remaining in the game.

Iowa failed to convert a 4th-and-21 on the ensuing possession, all but ending the game.

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Pacers Fall Short Against Hawks 102-92

 

Josh Smith finished with 25 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks, as the Atlanta Hawks earned a 102-92 win over the Indiana Pacers at Conseco Fieldhouse.

Mike Bibby went for 16 points and seven assists, while Al Horford contributed 15 points for Atlanta, which has won seven straight over Indiana. The Hawks have won two in a row overall after a four-game slide. Marvin Williams, Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford had 11 points apiece in the victory.

Danny Granger had a team-high 22 points for the Pacers, who were coming off a 99-85 win at Cleveland on Saturday, but have dropped four of their last six. Roy Hibbert had 18 points and 15 boards in defeat.

Indiana held a 24-21 lead after the opening quarter and Hibbert scored five straight points near the midway point of the second to put the Pacers up 38-32 with nearly 5 1/2 minutes left in the half.

Atlanta then scored nine unanswered a short time later and after Bibby hit a three-pointer, the Hawks held a 41-38 edge and were ahead 50-49 at the intermission.

Ahead by three with nearly 7 1/2 minutes to play in the third, Williams' three-point play and a pair of free throws book-ended an 8-1 run and the Hawks were ahead 66-56 with 5:24 left in the quarter. Atlanta was up 77-65 after three.

T.J. Ford's jumper cut the Pacers' deficit to five with 7:04 to play in the fourth, but Horford hit a jumper as Atlanta ran off seven straight to go up 90-78 and the Hawks held on the rest of the way.

Atlanta shot 50 percent from the field and made 8-of-15 from three-point range, while Indiana made 44.3 percent of its shots and only 4-of-18 from beyond the arc...Mike Dunleavy contributed 14 points for the Pacers.

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