MILWAUKEE, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Senior Bryquis
Perine (Milwaukee, Wis.) scored 18
of his team-high 22 points in the second half while trying to lead visiting
Green Bay (12-12, 6-6 HL) to a comeback win over Milwaukee (13-11, 8-5 HL)
Saturday afternoon, but the Panthers closed out an 88-75 victory over the
Phoenix in Horizon League men's basketball action at U.S. Cellular Arena.
Milwaukee
held a seven-point lead at the break and used an 8-of-11 performance from long
range in the final 20 minutes to help it build a lead as big as 18 points with
13:48 remaining.
Led
by Perine, Green Bay cut the deficit to single digits seven different times the
rest of the way. With 1:13 to play, freshman Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.) had a three go in and out that would
have brought the Phoenix within six points. Green Bay's comeback was stifled in
large part because of Milwaukee hitting 25-of-31 from the free-throw line in
the second half alone.
Perine,
after starting the game just 1-of-5 from the field and scoring four points in
the first half, made five of his eight shots in the second half and was a
perfect 8-for-8 from the line for the game. The senior tied a season high with
his 22 points.
Overall,
Green Bay made 16-of-28 shots in the second half en route to 49 points, the
team's season high for a half in 2010-11.
Both
teams struggled offensively at times during the first half, with the Phoenix shooting
just 7-of-30 from the field and Milwaukee committing nine turnovers and hitting
just 3-of-13 from long range. The Phoenix used a Rahmon Fletcher
(Milwaukee, Wis.) free throw to cut the deficit to four with 11 seconds left,
but Milwaukee's Kaylon Williams beat the buzzer with a long three to make it
33-26 Panthers at the break.
Milwaukee's
Anthony Hill had a big first half and accounted for much of the Milwaukee
offense, scoring 17 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Hill finished the game
with 29 points and 15 rebounds for the Panthers. Fletcher led the Phoenix in
the opening half, scoring 11 of his 16 points.
Along
with Perine and Fletcher, junior Jarvis
Williams (Milwaukee, Wis.) scored 14
points and freshman Daniel Turner (McCordsville, Ind.) added 10
points to give the Phoenix four players in double figures.
Green
Bay will look to bounce back this week as it travels to Chicago for a pair of
games. The Phoenix will play at UIC on Thursday at 7 p.m. and at Loyola on
Saturday at 3 p.m.
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more information on individual game tickets or season tickets or Pick 5
packages, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com/tickets or call the Green Bay ticket office at 920.465.2625.
MILWAUKEE 88, GREEN BAY 75
GREEN BAY (12-12, 6-6 HL)
PERINE, Bryquis 6-13 8-8 22; FLETCHER, Rahmon 4-10 6-8
16; WILLIAMS, Jarvis
7-11
0-2 14; TURNER, Daniel 2-3 6-7 10; BROWN, Alec 2-9 3-4 7; CERRONI, Kam 1-4 0-0
3; BAKER, Steve 1-4 0-0 3; SEMENAS, Derek 0-0 0-0 0; HEUER, Clayton 0-2 0-0 0;
EVANS, Seth 0-1 0-0 0; LESAGE, Greg 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-58 23-29 75.
MILWAUKEE (13-11, 8-5 HL)
HILL,
Anthony 7-8 15-18 29; BOYLE, Tone 4-9 4-7 16; McCALLUM, Ja'Rob 6-14 0-0 15;
WILLIAMS, Kaylon 3-8 3-4 11; KELM, Kyle 2-4 2-2 7; AJAMI, Jerard 0-0 5-6 5;
MEIER, Tony 1-4 1-2 4; ALLEN, Ryan 0-2 1-2 1; SOUTER, Patrick 0-0 0-0 0; WOLF,
Christian 0-0 0-0 0; BOGA, Lonnie 0-1 0-0 0; HAGGERTY, Ryan 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
23-51 31-41 88.
Green Bay...................... 26
49 - 75
Milwaukee..................... 33
55 - 88
