CONCORDIA ST PAUL IS HOSTING AUGSBURG COLLEGE

Concordia St Paul is looking for its first win of the season today, as they go up against Augsburg College at the Ganghoff Center in St Paul. Coming into this game, Concordia has a 0-2 record and Augsburg is 2-0.

As we are ready to get this game underway, Augsburg starts out this game playing tight man-to-man defense. Both teams are now playing man-to-man. Concordia is pressing to start out this game. Cory Polta just made a nice turnaround jump shot in traffic. Concordia is looking inside and then they look for Chris Pfeifer (6'-6"), who takes a nice jump-hook shot.

Augsburg is looking to swing the ball around the three point ark. They are having success rotating the ball. Nate Alm has made some nice moves here in this game.

Concordia St Paul is putting together a little run. Both teams are playing hard. Concordia St Paul is looking to push the ball. Both teams are now looking to push the ball. This is a ball game and Concordia has fought their way back into it.

With 9:37 left to go in the first half, the score is Augsburg 18 and Concordia St Paul 17.

Craig Heiman just hit a shot for Concordia St Paul He has a nice release on his jump shot. Drew Votis is playing hard and aggressive. He has really gone to battle in the low post with Andy Grzesiak-Grimm. They are both going hard here in this game.

With 6:18 left, the score is tied at 25.

Augsburg is still playing hard man-to-man defense. Both teams are still pushing the ball in this game. Both teams are trading baskets.

We have reached half time. At half time, the score is Concordia St Paul 38 and Augsburg 32. This game will come down to the wire. At half time, Augsburg is shooting 34.5% from the field. Concordia St Paul is shooting 48.3% from the field. Augsburg is shooting 60% from the free throw line and Concordia St Paul 88.9%.

We are ready to get the second half under way. Both teams are looking to push it here to start the second half. Craig Heiman has just scored on a nice hook shot from the top of the key.

With 17:10 left to go in the second half, Augsburg takes a time out. The score is Concordia St Paul 44 and Augsburg 34. Both teams are trading baskets in this game. There are a lot of bodies on the floor. Each team is going hard after the ball and diving on the ground for loose balls.

Nate Alm is also playing well here for Augsburg. He is playing aggressive and taking nice shots. He has taken some smart shots in this game and has played strong in this second half. This game has gotten sloppy, as both teams are going too fast down the court. Both teams are fumbling the basketball. Aaron Gross the Augsburg coach doesn't like what he is seeing and he has called a time out. He is really chewing out his players during this time out.

Both teams are really running the court. Concordia St Paul is trying to run their offense and it is mostly a motion patterned offense.

Concordia St Paul has kind of taken off in the second half. Concordia St Paul will continue to fight, as they don't want to let up.

With 9:24 left to go in regulation, the score is Concordia St Paul 66 and Augsburg 49.

There have been a lot of turnovers committed by both teams. The key in this game is whoever can have the fewest turnovers will come away with the victory today.

Concordia St Paul's Sammy Ricks has had a nice day today with some nice plays. He runs the show for the Golden Bears team. All of the action runs through Sammy Ricks. He is getting his players get involved in this game. Concordia St Paul continues to play tough, hard man-to-man defense.

With 5:49 left to go in this game, the score is Concordia St Paul 75 and Augsburg 61.

Concordia St Paul is still playing aggressive and have not let up in this one. They don't want to let up here even though they have a big lead. Sammy Ricks has just completed a nice play. He had a nice dribble drive to the cup, made a nice jump stop and pump-fake, and then made the shot.

This game has come to an end with Concordia St Paul coming away with the victory here tonight. The final of the game is Concordia St Paul 91 and Augsburg 75.The leading scores for Augsburg were Nate Alm with 17 points, Cory Polta 15 and Jon Cassens with 10 points. The leading scores for Concordia St Paul were Sammy Ricks with 20 points Matt Cadwell 18 points and Craig Heiman with 15 points.