Box Score HONOLULU, HI– The Swords and Urban Knights played a competitive contest tonight in McCabe Gym that Chaminade won, 83-70. Academy of Art came into the game at 3-8 and 1-3 in the PacWest Conference. In the first half of action, the Urban Knights gave Chaminade all it could handle, and trailed just 30-28 to the Swords after twenty minutes of action.
ARTU got off to a fast start against the Silverswords, who had won two in a row at home and were looking to make it three.
The Urban Knights were up 23-13 following an Ameer Shamsud-din jumper with 7:06 left in the first half. The Swords answered with a 14-1 run, culminating with a De'Andre Haskins (Long Beach, CA/Jordan) jumper to make the score 27-24 late in the half. Chaminade led 30-28 at the half.
Waly Coulibaly (Bamako, Mali/Patterson Prep) led CUH with 8 points. CUH had a hard time connecting from three, shooting 3-17 from there, good for 18% for the half.
Following a layup by Rodrigo Maza early in the half to cut the Chaminade lead to one at 38-37, the Swords went on a 17-6 run to extend the lead to twelve points with 11:22 left in the contest. Senior guard
Bennie Murray (Fairfield, CA/ Will C. Wood) had seven points in the run for CUH. The Swords managed to keep the lead in double-digits the rest of the way and won 83-70. Chaminade shot 42% from the floor and the Urban Knights shot 39% in defeat. ART U out-rebounded CUH 38-31.
Bennie Murray led Chaminade with 19 points and 7 rebounds, including an impressive 13-15 performance from the free throw line.
Sophomore guard
Lee Bailey (Detroit, MI/Detroit Country Day) added 19 points (10-10 free throws) and 4 rebounds. Sophomore
Mike Green (Dublin, OH/Dublin Coffman) came off the bench and made three three's and scored 9 points in 16 minutes.
Academy of Art was led by Aaron Anderson with 19 points.
The Swords move to 6-7 on the year and 3-2 in the PacWest with the win. Academy of Art falls to 3-9 and 1-4 in the PacWest on the year. Chaminade is back in action at Hawaii Pacific in PacWest Conference action on January 14th. Tip is set for 5:00 PM HT at Moanalua High School.
