Shenandoah Valley News

Injury-Plagued VMI Falls at Mercer

With several team members battling injury, the VMI basketball team fell by an 80-54 score to host Mercer Saturday afternoon at Hawkins Arena in Macon, Georgia.
 
Regular starter Rickey Bradley, Jr. sat out the entire game with an injury, and senior starting guard Sean Conway did not see action in the second half to nurse an injury.
 
VMI (6-19, 1-11) made an effort to come back from a 39-26 halftime deficit, but Mercer (12-13, 5-7) had too many weapons and fresh bodies to maintain the advantage throughout the second half.
 
Game Summary
*The Keydets were paced by freshman guard Tony Felder, Jr., who registered 17 points on the day after going 6-13 from the field and 3-7 from three-point range
*Playing a complete 40 minutes, freshman Asher Woods went 6-12 from the field and 3-5 from three-point range for 15 points
*Conway was held to 0-5 from the field in the opening half and did not play the second following his injury
*A stingy Mercer defense forced 19 VMI turnovers while the Bears committed just two during the contest, yielding a 21-5 points off turnovers advantage
*Mercer turned to its healthy bench to log 26 points during the game from its reserves
*Jalyn McCreary led the Bears with 22 points on the afternoon going 10-20 from the field while Braden Sparks tallied 15 points by going 5-11 on field goals and 4-8 from beyond the arc 

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