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Emory junior Jake Davis scored a season-high 26 points and senior Alex Greven added 23 points in leading the Eagles to a Wednesday night home win over Oglethorpe University. The Eagles raised their record to 6-2 following an 83-69 decision over the Stormy Petrels who slipped to 5-2.
Davis converted 10-of-15 from the floor and all six of his free throw opportunities en route to his sixth straight double-figure scoring effort this season. Davis also tied Greven and senior Michael Friedberg for the team lead with eight rebounds. All five of Greven's field goals were three pointers, a career high, and he knocked down all eight of his opportunities from the charity stripe in coming through with his third performance of 20 or more points this season and 12th of his career. Senior Nash Oh gave Emory a big boost off the bench, rounding out the club's double-figure scorers with a career-high 12 points in 14 minutes of action.
Emory finished the game with a 41.9 percent (26-of-62) effort from the floor compared to OU's mark of a 35.4 percent (23-of-65), the fourth time this year an Emory opponent finished with less than a 40 percent showing from the field. The Eagles also enjoyed a 46-36 margin in the rebounding category.
With Greven sinking four three pointers and totaling 14 points in the opening half of play, Emory claimed a 38-23 lead going into the intermission. Oglethorpe hit on just 28.6 percent of its field goal attempts in the first stanza and was hampered by 11 turnovers that Emory turned into 12 points. An 8-0 Emory spurt that saw Greven drain a pair from beyond the arc stretched a one-point Emory lead into a 21-12 cushion with 6:44 left in the half. Another 8-0 Eagle blitz, with Oh accounting for all of Emory's points, stretched the club's margin to 31-16 with 4:23 on the clock. After OU drew to within 11, Emory posted a 7-2 run over the final 1:43 with Davis converting a pair of buckets to close out the half.
Davis exploded for 16 points in the second half, hitting six-of-nine from the floor along with three from the charity stripe. After the Petrels made a charge that brought them to within seven points early in the stanza, back-to-back buckets by Davis gave Emory its double-figure lead back. After a pair of makes from the stripe cut the Eagles' lead to nine points, an 8-2 run, started by an Oh triple, pushed Emory's margin to 50-35 with 12:10 on the clock. Leading by a 59-47 count, Davis scored the first seven of a 10-2 charge that made the score 69-49 with 6:17 remaining.
Emory returns to action when it hosts Piedmont College on Saturday (Dec. 8) in a 7:00 pm tip.
