PC hoops teams to play twice at Radford

Marquis Barnett (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian College men’s basketball is doubly frustrating. It’s not enough that the Blue Hose have lost five consecutive Big South Conference games. They’re close. They’re excruciating. They are stress-related. Four points to UNC Asheville. Ten to Winthrop. Three to High Point. Ten to Longwood. If the Blue Hose are …

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PC teams blunt Lancers at home, get lanced away

Tilda Sjokvist (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges One unfortunate streak ended and another continued on Saturday as the Presbyterian College basketball teams took on Longwood, the victorious women at Templeton Center and the men who fell short in Farmville, Va. The women ended a modest two-game losing streak, and the men’s consecutive setbacks stretched to five. …

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Blue Hose to seek answers from Lancers

(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This Saturday finds the Presbyterian College women at Templeton Center to play a crucial Big South Conference basketball game versus the Longwood Lancers of Farmville, Va. Alternately, the Blue Hose are also playing the Longwood men at 2 p.m., but in Farmville. A week from Saturday, the time/space continuum will warp …

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Blue Hose can’t climb High Point … from either side

Samage Teel (2) (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Once again, Presbyterian’s basketball teams lost, the men’s team in a close affair at Templeton Center, the women in a dismal showing in High Point. The men’s team, which began its season with a shocking upset of Vanderbilt, lost its fourth straight Big South Conference game and third …

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Blue Hose toppled, home and away

Bryanna Brady (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Ever since Presbyterian College began playing Big South Conference basketball games this season, the problem has been winning at home until Saturday. The Blue Hose fell to Gardner-Webb at both Templeton Center (women) and Paul Porter Arena (men). Gardner-Webb bettered the Blue Hose, 72-58, in Clinton, and, 76-60, in …

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PC can’t get home fires burning

Christina Kline (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The Presbyterian College basketball teams are both undefeated on the Big South Conference road. On the down side, neither Alaura Sharp’s women nor Quinton Ferrell’s men has prevailed in a league game within the dark, cozy confines of Templeton Center. Home has been where the hard is. In Rock …

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Away is where the Blue Hose’ heart is

By MONTE DUTTON PC's Kaleb Scott, UNCA's Drew Pember collide. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants For the second time in three days – and for almost all of the full Big South Conference schedule -- Presbyterian College’s basketball teams played the same opponents, one at Templeton Center and the other on the road. Once again, the …

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Blue Hose come home to Pember

Drew Pember guards PC's Owen McCormack last season (PC photo). https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Drew Pember will look familiar to Presbyterian College’s returning players when he trots onto the Templeton Center court on Saturday for the 2 p.m. game between the Blue Hose and Pember’s UNC Asheville Bulldogs. The last time they saw him, Pember dropped 48 points …

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Road rules in PC league openers

Tilda Sjokvist fueled a rally. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Tilda Sjokvist spurred a furious fourth-quarter comeback in Presbyterian College’s Big South opener at Templeton Center on Wednesday night. It wasn’t enough. Catherine Alben, Charleston Southern’s sophomore guard from Snellville, Ga., buried the Blue Hose with 24 points – and six triples in nine tries – …

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Blue Hose shake Koalas in 2nd half

Bryanna Belton (PC photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Presbyterian College restored order in the second half and, led by 27 points from Bryanna Belton, defeated Columbia College, 63-52, in a Sunday-afternoon women’s basketball game at Templeton Center. Belton, a sixth-year center from Goodyear, Ariz., buried 11/15 shots with nary a three-pointer and 5/8 free throws as the Blue …

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