By Myles Goldman
The LIU Post men’s basketball season ended on Feb. 28 with a 71-66 loss to Molloy College in the first round of the East Coast Conference Championship.
With less than 10 minutes into the game, before a large crowd at the Pratt Recreation Center on the LIU Post campus, the Pioneers had a 20-4 lead coming from good three-point shooting from LIU Post senior business administration major, Aary Bibens, who ended up racking up 11 points in that half.
Senior economics major Kyle Taylor-McCleggan also scored eight points. At the end of the first half, the Pioneers were leading, with a score of 36-28, and showing their stellar offense by contesting all 13 of Molloy’s attempts from three-point range.
As the second half started, an amped up crowd started to silence when Molloy slimmed the lead down to three points and eventually tied the game at 49 points with just less than 10 minutes left.
The two teams swapped leads until Molloy capitalized on a three-pointer, putting them in the lead, with a score of 63-60. Molloy went on to defeat the Pioneers in a heartbreaker, with a final score of 71-66.
Not only did this game mark the end of the season for the LIU Post Pioneers, but also the college basketball career for seniors Hunter Powell, McCleggan and Bibens.
This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.
