Box Score DAYTONA BEACH - Kwasi Amponsah scored 30 points in the Roanoke College men's basketball team's loss to Oglethorpe University in its last game of the Daytona Beach Shootout on Thursday.

Amponsah led Roanoke (6-4) with 30 points and seven rebounds. Amponsah continues to be strong from the free throw line, knocking down 10-12 for the evening. Daniel Eacho scored 15 points shooting 7-12 from the field, also pulling down seven rebounds of his own. Also with seven rebounds was Julian Ramirez, who also had three assists to his credit.

The Stormy Petrels (8-2) had five players in double digits, led by Branden Jovaag who tallied 20 points. Jordan Kinney put up 14 points, while Christian Molinet had a double-double of 12 points and 13 rebounds. Alec Pitts and Alex Davis each finished the contest with 11 points.

The teams stayed fairly even through the first few minutes of the contest, with Oglethorpe holding a slight lead through the first six minutes of the game. The Maroons took their first lead at 13:56 in the first half, as Amponsah hit a jumper to put Roanoke up 13-12. The Maroons held the lead for the next nine minutes, until the Stormy Petrels went back up at 5:07 with a free throw by Jovaag to make the score 28-27. Roanoke was outscored by Oglethorpe 11-5 over the last five minutes of the half, entering the locker room down 39-32.

At the half, Amponsah let the Maroons with 12 points and five rebounds and a block. For Oglethorpe, Branden Jovaag led the charge with 14 points, followed by Alec Pitts with 10.

In the second half, the Maroons erased the deficit from the first, pulling within one, 45-44, after Ramirez hit a layup with 16:19 to play. But the Stormy Petrels started to get away from the Maroons. At 13:02, Oglethorpe started a 15-3 run that lasted the next six minutes to go ahead by 16, 70-54. That run held the Maroons at bay, as they could only pull within 13 over the course of the final seven minutes, falling to the Stormy Petrels, 86-73

The Maroons return to action on January 1-2 as they host the 2013 Morris Cregger New Year's Invitational. They open up against Peace College at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, January 1^st.

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