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December 6, 2002

Boxscore

Demek Adams had eight assits and six rebounds versus Radford.

American Basketball Opens Bender Arena in Style
Ric Patiejunas leads Eagle scoring

Lynchburg, Va.— Senior Ric Patiejunas (Vilnius, Lithuania) scored 15 points and led AU to a 73-49 victory over the Highlanders of Radford University. Patiejunas was five-of-seven from the field and also grabbed a career-high seven rebounds. For AU 11 of the 14 players on head coach Jeff Jones’ roster scored and the Eagles outrebounded Radford by 20 (44-24).

Senior Demek Adams (Washington, D.C./Archbishop Carroll) had a career-high six rebounds and was two-of-three from the field. Just as importantly, he tied his career assist mark with eight. Sophomore Jason Thomas (Herndon, Va./Notre Dame Prep) must like Radford, because he tied his career-high for scoring with nine points on four-of-five shooting, including a late dunk. As mentioned, his previous career outing was last year against Radford, when he went for nine points, two steals and two assists.

Senior Glenn Stokes (Silver Spring, Md./Tallahassee CC) had eight points in ten minutes while fellow senior Steven Miles (Alexandria, Va/Coastal Carolina) had eight points and four assists.

Sophomore Ryan Graham (St. John Brunswick, Canada/Brewster Academy) scored the first point of his collegiate career as did Jamaal Caterina (Portland, Me./Brewster Academy).

American was never in serious trouble after the first ten minutes of the game. They went into the half up twenty (37-17) and pushed the lead out early in the second half. They shot 51.9 percent from the floor (27-52) and had 21 assists on 27 made field goals. About the only area the Eagles were down in is free throw shooting, where AU managed just 10-of-20 from behind the stripe.

American (2-3) will not have much time to rest as they will play Howard University on December 9, 2002.