IUP played two razor-close games against Mercyhurst last night but lost both. Jack Benedict recaps a frustrating night in Erie.
Men’s coach Joe Lombardi liked the way his guys fought back in the game.
Lombardi says his team learned something, even in defeat.
Women’s coach Craig Carey dressed only eight players and three of them fouled out. He’s short-handed even without the loss of Tierra Preston to a knee injury, so his replacements have to step up.
Saturday will be Alumni Day and Faith Night, and it will be a tough matchup for both the IUP women and men. Gannon’s women have won twenty in a row and are ranked second in the nation, They’re coming off a 57-54 win over Edinboro in which Sam Pirosko scored her 2,000th career point.
The Gannon men are ranked eighth in the nation. They blasted Edinboro 124-82 last night.
Gannon’s women beat IUP on January 13th, 68-52 and their men beat the Crimson Hawks 84-58.
