Reggie Dillard scored a career-high 20 points, while Jordan Downing added 18, to lead the Presbyterian College men's basketball team in a 69-48 loss to Wake Forest in action tonight at Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Blue Hose were outscored by only seven in the second half in a defensive, 27-20, battle.
PC falls to 0-3 on the year, while Wake Forest improves to 3-0. The Blue Hose head home to Clinton for their next game, a 7:45 pm., game against Toccoa Falls at Templeton Center.
Dillard and Downing provided 38 of the team's 48 points, with Will Truss pacing the Blue Hose in rebounds with six.
PC shot 35.7% from the field and was four-of-11 from the three-point arc, three of them coming from Dillard. The Blue Hose recorded 29 rebounds, compared to 46 for Wake Forest.
The Demon Deacons were led by Codi Miller-McIntyre with 20 points. Devin Thomas, who had 10 points on the night, paced the team in rebounds with 11. WFU shot 39.7% from the field and eight-of-27 from the perimeter.
PC held an early 3-2 lead off a Dillard three-pointer at the 18:32 mark. Wake Forest scored the next eight points to take a 10-2 lead before Dillard's two free throws ended the drought with 15:39 ticks on the clock.
The Blue Hose scattered baskets the next several minutes to keep the margin within single digits, but A three-pointer by Williams gave the Demon Deacons a 10-point lead, 21-11, with 12:14 to go in the half.
Leading 25-15, WFU went on a 7-0 run to build the lead to 17, 32-15, before another three-pointer by Dillard cut the lead to 14 with 7:03 left. Wake Forest took as much as a 19-point lead in the first half, 39-20 at 4:05, but the Blue Hose used baskets by Danny Herrera and Dillard to help make it a 15-point game at the half, 42-27.
A jumper by Downing and layup by Ed Drew cut PC's deficit to 11 to open the second half. The Demon Deacons scored 11 unanswered to take a 20-point, 53-33, lead.
Wake Forest led by as much as 29, 67-38 with 6:37 left on the clock, before a 10-0 run by PC, which included five points by Dillard and a three-pointer by Downing, made it a 19-point game, 67-48 with just over a minute remaining. The Blue Hose ran out of time, falling to the Demon Deacons by 21, 69-48.
