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                  <span style="font-family: Arial; color: blue">Spring Arbor 
                  sends Cougars back under .500 with 80-70 loss</span></b></td>
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                  Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005</b><br>
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                  SPRING ARBOR, Mich. – Spring Arbor’s Micah Lancaster scored a 
                  game-high 30 points to lead the SAU Cougars to an 80-70 
                  victory over USF Saturday. SAU led by as many as 17 in the 
                  opening period and held off a modest Cougar surge in the 
                  second half to win by 10.</span></p>
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                  &quot;[Lancaster] made some pretty tough plays and forced us into a 
                  zone defense,” USF head coach Jeff Rekeweg said. “We limited 
                  him a little with that but kept shooting ourselves in the foot 
                  with poor decisions.”</span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Down 17 
                  early in the first half, the Cougars trailed by just nine, 
                  39-30 at the break. USF held Arbor to 11 points in the final 
                  10 minutes of the opening period to keep within reach. </span>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">In the 
                  second half, mistakes continued to take their toll on the 
                  Cougar comeback attempt. A three-point play by Nick Ankenbruck 
                  at 4:25 cut the SAU lead to five, 64-59. Needing a stop, USF 
                  locked in defensively only to allow Lancaster to hit a runner 
                  in the lane and convert a three-point opportunity late in the 
                  shot clock. The Cougars also had a 3-on-1 fast-break chance to 
                  cut the lead to five a minute later, but a poor decision by 
                  Ryan Bradley with the ball led to a Spring Arbor three and a 
                  five-point swing. </span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">“We got 
                  them to let us back in it, but they converted at a much higher 
                  rate than we did,” Rekeweg said. “We work on decision-making 
                  in practice, but we have yet to transfer that to the games.”</span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Senior 
                  center Chase Holden led all USF scorers with 24 points, 12 in 
                  each half. Gabe Miller added 13 for the Cougars with Trey 
                  Eaton coming through with 12 points in the loss. Lancaster’s 
                  30, combined with the 37 he dropped on USF in the earlier 
                  meeting between the two teams this season, give him 67 points 
                  in SAU’s two-game sweep of the Cougars. </span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">The loss 
                  drops USF to 12-13 on the year and 5-6 in MCC play. SAU 
                  improves to 15-11 (6-5 MCC). Saint Francis returns to Hutzell 
                  Athletic Center Tues., Feb. 1 for a 7 p.m. start against 
                  Marian College. </span></p>
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                  <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">-Go USF-</span></i></p>
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