Pirates Slice in Shootout

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Morgan Gates

Published: November 23, 2005

The results were split for the now (6-5) PJC Pirates at the Panhandle Shootout in Mariana. They won last Friday’s game against Middle East Georgia Community College with a final score of (79-73). However the Pirates didn’t play quite as well on Saturday. Tifton, Ga.’s Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College smoked the Pirates with a final score of 75-66.

The Pirates were ahead by one point at half time, but couldn’t make their shots in the second half. The game shooting percentage was 38 percent.

ABAC came back in the second half making a 50 percent shooting percentage over the entire game. PJC’s top shooter was 6-foot-2 guard Tyrone Evans with 24 points, and following close behind was 6-foot-4 forward Phil Wallace with 21 points.

Go to http://www.pjc.edu/Sports and click on “Men’s BasketBall”, then “schedule”

to see the results from last night’s game against Bishop St. in Mobile.