FSU Broncos Take Back-To-Back W’s Against Livingstone Blue Bears
posted by Antonio Mitchell, DorMiya Vance | February 15, 2022 | In News, SportsThe Broncos men’s basketball team started off the week strong with an 85-67 win over Bowie State University. With the win over Bowie State, on February 7, Fayetteville State University sat atop of the CIAA conference with a 10-2 record in conference play.
There were two Broncos who dropped 20 points that night, Jalen Seegars and Cress Worthy. Seegars, for the second time this season, dropped 25 points, which pushed his average to 18.4 points per game, as well as having scored 20 points or more ten times this season. Worthy improved his average to 14.7 per game. The game turned into a highlight reel for the duo, along with their other teammates’ names Zion Cousins and Joshua Wiggins. Cousins finished with 10 points and Wiggins finished with six.
On February 10, the FSU Broncos faced off in a double-header against the Livingstone Blue Bears at home in the Capel Arena.
The women’s team (12-9) heated up the stadium as they captured a 50-45 triumph over the Blue Bears. Game leader, Rasheka Simmons, for the Broncos, came in clutch with a high of twenty points while junior guard, London Thompson had fifteen rebounds.
For the Blue Bears, Daijah Turner led the team with fourteen points. The Broncos bounced back and forth with the lead for the first two quarters but settled at a draw in the third.
Momentum picked back up as the Broncos held a five-point lead that was cut down to a single-point lead as the game entered the final quarter. The Broncos, again, took the lead by five and maintained the energy until the sound of the final buzzer.
Capel Arena also welcomed the FSU men’s basketball team (16-7) onto the court as spectators took their seats for game two against the Livingstone Blue Bears.
The Broncos ultimately took over the court as a result of losing their first match-up against the Blue Bears back in January.
Worthy understood the assignment, as he led the Broncos with a game-high of nineteen points. Not too far behind, six-foot-nine forward, Cousins, dropped sixteen points and six-foot-seven center, Darian Dixon, got seventeen points.
The game came down to fundamentals in the second half. But the free throw line is where the Broncos left it all on the court. Seegar ended the suspense by dropping one of his two free throws, leading the game to 71-69 at the final buzzer.
The FSU men’s basketball team competed and lost, 64-65, the number one slot in the CIAA Southern Division when both teams traveled to Winston-Salem State University to face off against the Rams on their home court on February 12.
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