Career accomplishments lead Barton basketball to 103-64 win
The Barton men’s basketball team eclipsed the century mark for the first time of the 2012 season as the Cougars defeated Friends University Junior Varsity 103-64 Monday night at the Barton Gym. Returning NJCAA All-American Algie Key paced all scorers with a career high thirty-four points while fellow sophomore Andell Cumberbatch recorded his first career double-double with thirteen points and eleven rebounds as Barton improves to 3-0 on the early season. The Cougars travel to Ottawa on Thursday for a 7:00 p.m. contest against the Ottawa University Junior Varsity.
The Cougars placed four of its ten players in double figures as freshmen Trey Unrau and Rapheal Stephens joined Key and Cumberbatch in scoring. Unrau knocked down 2-of-2 treys while Stephens put in a workman-like ten points on 4-of-6 shooting. Joining Cumberbatch in double-digit rebounding was freshman Raheem Johnson who led the team by hauling in thirteen rebounds.
As a team Barton shot fifty-seven percent on 36-of-63 field goal attempts and outscored an under matched Friends team 58-10 in the paint. Holding the Falcons to twenty-seven percent shooting, the Cougars forced twenty turnovers while only committing fourteen and rejected seven shots to go along with ten steals. Johnson led the rejections with four while sophomore Turon Parker and Key each had three steals.
Leading two Falcons in double-digit scoring was Wichita freshman Junian Johnson with sixteen points while Texan freshman Brandon Johnson was close behind with fifteen. The duo were a combined 7-for-13 from long distance as the Falcons put up twenty-six shots from behind the arc connecting on eleven of those for forty-two percent.