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Senior captain James Brooks had his best game of the season with 18 points and 11 rebounds. Fellow senior captain, Caleb Trouwburst, put on a defensive display and had 8 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal. Junior transfer Carter Fletcher grabbed 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in his first collegiate game. But perhaps most impressive was the astronomical 37 points scored by Trivette Knowles, he also added 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocked shots in a dominating performance.
The win improved The King's College HVIAC Conference record to 1-2 and they are 2-7 overall.
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BROOKLYN – Pratt squandered a 16-point lead in the final 8:30 in falling 62-59 to visiting King's College Thursday night in Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men's basketball play at the ARC.
Lions forward Trivette Knowles led all players with 37 points, 21 after half, in keying the Lions fervent comeback. His fast break three-point play capped a 16-5 run in giving King's its first lead of the second half, 60-59, with 1:41 left. Pratt missed three shots to tie or take the lead in the final 32 seconds.
For the Cannoneers, senior Ari Grant led the way with 17 points and game-highs of 15 rebounds and four steals. Khari Jones also added a double-double, coming off the bench for 11 points and 12 rebounds in 23 minutes.
The entire first half and early minutes of the second half belonged to Pratt. Back-to-back Akil Philip three-pointers opened up the Cannoneers first double-digit lead at 20-9 at the 11:45 mark. King's responded with five straight, but a Jones layup from an Andrew Yaglenski entry pass upped the lead back to double figures at 30-20 with 1:51 left in the first.
After a Bubby Vernon jumper 35 seconds later, Pratt went into halftime leading 32-22, holding the Lions to 25 percent (8-32) shooting for the frame. Grant and Philip led the Cannoneers through halftime with eight points each, while Knowles kept King's within striking distance with 16 first-half points.
After a 10-3 run to open the half, a Jones free throw extended Pratt's lead to 42-25 inside the 14:00 mark, and a Grant layup made it a 54-38 game with 8:30 left.
Caleb Trowburst's jumper at the 8:16 mark sparked a 10-1 Lions run in just 3:01. Clinging to a 59-52 lead, the hosts went scoreless on 0-8 shooting over the final 3:57, giving up 10 straight King's points, six from Knowles, including his pivotal three-point play at 1:41 from which the Cannoneers never recovered.
On the night, Pratt shot 3-24 (13 percent) from three-point range and 31 percent (22-70) overall. King's hit on 47 percent (14-30) from the field in the second half and 36 percent (22-62) overall.
Pratt falls to 4-3 overall and 1-1 in Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play. The Cannoneers return to play in non-conference action Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Five Towns College.
