LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (AP) - Tyreek Duren scored 20 points and Ramon Galloway had 17 to lead La Salle to a 63-52 victory over Rider on Thursday night.
Daniel Stewart and Anthony Myles led Rider (4-4) with 12 points each.
Rider pulled to six points back at 43-37 on Stewart's three-point play with 11:44 left and 49-43 on Zedric Sadler's free throw at 7:45, but that was as close as it would get. Galloway made a layup at 5:54 and a 3-pointer for a 54-44 advantage at the 5:10 mark for La Salle (4-1).
La Salle took a 6-0 lead on 3-pointers from Duren and Sam Mills and reached 13-2 on Galloway's jumper. Galloway made a pair of 3-pointers to go with Jerrell Wright's jumper for a 19-4 advantage with 12:37 left in the half for the Explorers.
Trailing 32-14 with 6:21 to go, Rider managed to close the gap to 34-23 at the break.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| La Salle (4-1) « | 34 | 29 | 63 |
| Rider (4-4) | 23 | 29 | 52 |
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| La Salle Explorers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Wright, F | 29 | 3-8 | 0-2 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| S. Zack, C | 21 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| T. Duren, G | 39 | 6-6 | 6-9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 20 |
| R. Galloway, G | 38 | 7-14 | 0-1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 |
| S. Mills, G | 37 | 2-6 | 3-4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Peterson | 21 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| T. Dunn | 10 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| R. Brown | 5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| G. Hunt | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 22-48 | 12-20 | 31 | 12 | 17 | 63 | |
| 45.8% | 60% | ||||||
| Rider Broncs | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Stewart, F | 32 | 4-6 | 4-6 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| J. Fortunat, F | 11 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| J. Thompson, G | 34 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| A. Myles, G | 33 | 4-13 | 3-6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| N. Lindsey, G | 29 | 1-4 | 3-7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| Z. Sadler | 27 | 2-8 | 2-3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| D. Nd-Ezuma | 15 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| S. Valentine | 10 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| T. Pereira | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| K. Alford | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-48 | 12-22 | 33 | 6 | 18 | 52 | |
| 39.6% | 54.5% | ||||||
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