Box Score
Emory junior Julien Williams scored a career-high 21 points in
sparking the Eagles' basketball squad to a win at Carnegie Mellon
Friday evening. Emory snapped a three-game losing streak and
boosted its overall record to 14-7, 6-4 in the University Athletic
Association, following a well-earned 77-71 triumph over the Tartans
who saw their record fall to 4-17, 0-10 in the league.
Williams finished the evening hitting nine-of-12 from the floor,
including two-of-three from three-point range, en route to his
seventh double-figure scoring effort of the year. Sophomore
Austin Claunch went 11-of-11 from the free throw line and finished
with 13 points, and sophomore Alex Gulotta rounded out the team's
double-digit scorers with 12 points. Senior Chad Hixon led
the club in rebounding for the fifth time in the last six contests
with eight rebounds.
Both teams shot an identical 45.9 percent from the floor with each
squad converting 28-of-61 of their field goal tries. Emory knocked
seven three-point field goals, three coming from Gulotta, while the
host Tartans sank three from beyond the arc.
Emory hit its first six field goal attempts of the game and raced
out to a 13-8 lead. The Tartans regrouped and rattled off an
18-5 scoring run that enabled them to claim a 26-18 lead with 9:08
left in the opening half. However, the Eagles closed out the
stanza on an explosive 24-8 flurry to take a 42-34 advantage at
halftime. The visiting Emory team shot 54.2 percent
(18-of-33) from the floor during the opening 20 minutes of action
and was led in scoring by Willams with 11 points, sinking all five
of his field goal attempts, while Gulotta chipped in nine
points.
A basket by Williams capped a 7-2 Eagle run to open the second
half, boosting their cushion to 13 points, 49-36. CMU then
battled back with a 13-2 spurt that closed the gap to just two
points, 51-49, with 12:06 on the clock. Holding a 59-55 edge,
back-to-back baskets by senior Daniel Curtin, along with a free
throw by Williams, widen Emory's margin to nine points, 64-55, with
6:38 remaining. The Tartans edged back to within five points
before a key three-point shot by Hixon made the score 67-61 in
Emory's favor with 3:39 on the clock. The Eagles scored their
final 10 points of the night all the charity stripe with Claunch
going a perfect 10-for-10 over the final 1:04 of the contest.
Emory returns to action on Sunday (Feb. 14) when it plays at Case
Western Reserve in an 11:00 a.m. tip.
