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CONTACT: Doug Roorbach, Sports Information Director 585.567.9556

Houghton College Men Fall to Fisher in Final Seconds

 

(Boston, Mass.)—The Houghton College men’s team battled back from a six-point deficit with less than a minute to go and tied Fisher College, only to lose 68-66 on a running bank shot with four seconds left.

          “I’m disappointed,” said Brad Zarges, Houghton’s head coach, “I felt like it was a game we should have won.”

          They almost did. Down by six with 50 seconds to go, the Highlanders made an old-fashioned three-point play, got a defensive stop and then sunk a three-point field goal to tie it up with 17 seconds left.

          But with four seconds to go a Fisher player banked in a shot while falling down to re-take the lead. Houghton got off a last-second shot, but it rimmed out and the game was over.

          “We had a poor offensive effort in the first half of the game,” said Zarges. The halftime score was 24-23 in Fisher’s favor. “Then, in the second half, we played poorly on defense,” he added. “It gets back to the word we keep stressing: consistency.”

          The loss drops Houghton to 4-4 on the season, with three games coming up next week. The men will host the Walsh University Cavaliers on Wednesday, January 2, at 7:00 p.m.

 

Houghton College has deep and solid roots in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, where our teams use their commitment to excellence, both on the field-of-play and in the classroom, as a platform for their strong and unique emphasis on Sports Ministry. Their goal is to make a difference for the Kingdom on campus, in Allegany County, in the Northeast and around the world.  Houghton is one of only 13 institutions who have been hand-selected by the NAIA to serve as "Champions of Character" Program Centers, opening the door for Houghton to be a leader, both in the Northeast and nationally, in character education. Through hands-on, innovative community outreach initiatives, Houghton coaches and student-athletes are working together to change the culture of sport and to change our culture through sport.