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EAST STROUDSBURG - Kenneth St. George scored 20 points to help West Chester end East Stroudsburg University's 13-game winning streak with a 56-54 win in PSAC East men's basketball on Saturday at Koehler Fieldhouse.
The loss ends ESU's winning streak one game shy of the school record of 14 straight wins during the 1940-41 season and is the first setback since a 64-59 loss to Nyack on Nov. 27. The Warriors won 10 of the 13 games by double figures and went 7-0 against the PSAC West for the first time in school history.
St. George was one of only four Golden Rams to score in the contest. Lenwood Greenwood had 15 points, Kehinde Roberts scored 14 and Ralph Hegamin added seven, including a three-point play for the game's final points.
Junior guard Pat Fleury gave ESU its only lead of the second half with a layup with 1:56 to play before Hegamin scored and made the free throw with 1:26 to go. Both teams turned the ball over in the final minute and ESU called a timeout with 21 seconds left following a steal by junior forward Aaron Pinckney.
Fleury missed a three-pointer with four seconds left and junior forward Chris Bach came down with the last of his career-high 14 rebounds, but was short on a fallaway jumper from the baseline as time expired.
ESU (13-4, 2-1) played the last 13:14 without senior forward Channon Easley, who had scored 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting when he went down with an injury while gathering an offensive rebound.
West Chester led 42-39 at that point before sophomore guard Andy Heimbach tied the game with a three-pointer with 12:05 to go. The score was tied at 44-44 after a layup by Pinckney with nine minutes left before Roberts made two free throws and Hegamin hit back-to-back shots to give West Chester a 50-44 lead.
The Golden Rams held a 53-46 advantage with 6:24 left but failed to score for the next five minutes as ESU ran off eight straight points. Heimbach started the run with a three-pointer, sophomore guard Dawud Lyons had a layup and Fleury ultimately gave the Warriors the lead to set up the finish.
ESU led by as many as 11 points in the first half, but West Chester closed the half on an 18-5 run and led 28-26 at intermission. St. George and Greenwood both had 13 points in the first 20 minutes, while Easley posted 13 points, five rebounds, three steals and two blocks for the Warriors.
Bach had six of his 14 rebounds at the offensive end as ESU held a 38-29 advantage on the glass. Heimbach was the only other ESU player in double figures with 10 points.
ESU will look to rebound from its first loss in PSAC East action when it heads to Mansfield for a 7:30 p.m. start on Wednesday.
