Saints Just Short at Coffeyville

Seward rallied from down 15 to tie Coffeyville Saturday afternoon at Nellis Hall in Coffeyville.  However they never took the lead in a 65-63 loss on Jay Herkelman Court.
The Red Ravens, who are going through a rare up and down season, led 37-28 at halftime.  The Saints found some of the grit that served them well in the Fiesta Bowl Classic in Arizona last week.  The Saints tied the game at 53 at the media timeout with 9:48 to play.  In an anomaly In the stats, Seward out rebounded the Red Ravens 44-34.  However, Coffeyville put up 17 more shots than Seward.  The Saints shot 38 percent.  Seward was 22-32 at the foul line and scored 10 more than the Ravens at the line.  But Coffeyville hounded SCCC into 24 turnovers and led points off turnovers 25-9.
Bee McCrary dropped in a career high 26 points.  Stephen Takyi had 10.
Seward falls to 8-6 overall and 1-4 in the Jayhawk West.  Coffeyville is 11-5 and 3-3 in the Jayhawk East.  Seward is 2-9 against the Ravens in Coffeyville and haven’t won in Nellis Hall since 2010.  Seward hosts Independence Wednesday night at 8 on 107.5 and kscbnews.net.