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                  <span style="font-family: Verdana">Cougars advance to 
                  'Shootout' Championship</span></b></font></td>
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                  <font size="2">Mon., Jan. 3, 2005</font></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Chase Holden inside and Nick Ankenbruck 
                  outside led the University of Saint Francis to a 72-56 win 
                  over College of the Ozarks in the first round of the Embry 
                  Riddle Shootout on Monday night.</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                  Holden delivered a double-double with 24 points and 14 
                  rebounds. Ankenbruck connected on four 3-point shots enroute 
                  to 18 points for the Cougars (8-9). USF will play 10<sup>th</sup>-ranked 
                  Embry Riddle for the championship on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. 
                  Embry Riddle advanced with a 97-53 win over Castleton State.</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; The 
                  game will be broadcast on WLVY 1450 AM.</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; The 
                  Cougars broke away from a tie at 20 and led 30-24 at halftime. 
                  USF never trailed in the second half and led by as many as 17 
                  points against the Bobcats (8-4).</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                  Ankenbruck (Fort Wayne / Homestead) connected on 4-of-8 
                  3-point shots. Holden (Hamilton, IN / Hamilton) scored 15 
                  points in the second half and grabbed eight rebounds. Holden 
                  was perfect from the free-throw line hitting 8-of-8 for the 
                  game. He 
                  also connected on 8-of-13 field goals.</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; 
                  &quot;Chase really answered the challenge,&quot; USF coach Jeff Rekeweg 
                  said. &quot;We get back to conference play this Saturday and Chase 
                  played the way we need him to keep playing in conference. He 
                  came to play, especially in the second half.&quot;</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                  Virgil Akers (Indianapolis / Ben Davis) helped out with eight 
                  of his 10 points in the second half. John Gensic (Albion, IN / 
                  Bishop Dwenger) also had 10 points.</span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Virgil 
                  probably had his best game of his career,&quot; Rekeweg said. &quot;He 
                  had 10 points, eight in the second half at critical times. He 
                  had a huge run during a four-minute span where he made 4-6 
                  free throws, a couple other baskets, and with one exception 
                  played pretty good defense.</font></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial">&quot;We got excellent 
                  effort out of everybody involved,&quot; Rekeweg said. &quot;Justin 
                  Jamerson comes in in the first half and knocks down his first 
                  two threes, and did a good job defensively. He had very 
                  limited minutes. Overall, I was pleased more with the 
                  defensive effort we had as a team.&quot;</font></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                  USF played without five players who were suspended for at 
                  least one game for violating team rules -- Dusty Beucler, Trey 
                  Eaton, Eric Eaton, Mike Steinau and Kyle Ehle.</span></p>
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                  <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;<i><b>-- GO USF --</b></i></span></td>
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