{"id":40363,"date":"2013-01-03T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=40363"},"modified":"2013-01-03T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:30:59","slug":"columbia-holds-off-raiders-66-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=40363","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Holds off Raiders, 66-59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By John Painter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(New York City \u2013 Jan. 2, 2013) Columbia\u2019s second-half shooting from long range proved decisive in a 66-59 victory over Colgate here Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second year in a row Columbia defeated Colgate by a 66-59 count.<\/p>\n<p>Colgate (5-10) opened the second half on a 9-0 run that pushed the Raiders into a 36-30 lead, their largest of the game. But Columbia rallied and regained the lead for good at 46-44 on a 3-pointer by Noah Springwater with 10:54 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of six made 3-pointers out of 13 tries in the second half by the Lions. Columbia was just 11-of-31 from the field in the second half to Colgate\u2019s 11-of-22, but the Lions made the most of their 3-pointers. Colgate was 5-of-15 from long range for the game, while Columbia finished 9-of-21.<\/p>\n<p>Colgate also was victimized by 13 turnovers to just seven for the hosts. The Raiders scored just three points over the game\u2019s final 3\u00bd minutes, during which they attempted only one shot from the field and had two turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia improved to 7-5 for the season, including a victory earlier this season at Villanova.<\/p>\n<p>Colgate was led by 13 points apiece from Murphy Burnatowski, John Brandenburg and Pat Moore.\u00a0 Brian Barbour and Grant Mullins claimed game-high honors for Columbia with 15 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Colgate travels to Dartmouth on Saturday for a 7 p.m. tip.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia 66, Colgate 59<\/p>\n<p>Colgate (5-10):\u00a0Murphy Burnatowski 13, John Brandenburg 13, Mitch Rolls 4, Pat Moore 13, Damon Sherman-Newsome 9, Brandon James 7.\u00a0Totals:\u00a021-5-59.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia (7-5):\u00a0Alex Rosenberg 9, Mark Cisco 6, Grant Mullins 15, Brian Barbour 15, Maodo Lo 2, Steve Frankoski 11, Noah Springwater 6, Cory Osetkowski 2.\u00a0Totals:\u00a024-9-66.<\/p>\n<p>3-Point Field Goals:\u00a0Colgate 5 (Moore 3, Burnatowski, Sherman-Newsome); Columbia 9 (Mullins 3, Frankoski 3, Springwater 2, Rosenberg).<\/p>\n<p>Halftime:\u00a0Columbia 30-27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Painter (New York City \u2013 Jan. 2, 2013) Columbia\u2019s second-half shooting from long range proved decisive in a 66-59 victory over Colgate here Wednesday night. It\u2019s the second year in a row Columbia defeated Colgate by a 66-59 count. Colgate (5-10) opened the second half on a 9-0 run that pushed the Raiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}