Box Score

EAST STROUDSBURG – Senior guard Andy Heimbach scored 17 points, classmate Robby Pines had 14 points, six rebounds and seven assists and East Stroudsburg University is off to its best start in men's basketball in 67 years after putting away Gannon for a 75-54 victory on Sunday afternoon at Koehler Fieldhouse.

ESU improves to 11-0, its longest unbeaten start since going 12-0 in the 1941-42 and 1942-43 campaigns, and is the first PSAC school to beat Gannon twice since the Golden Knights entered the conference last season. ESU upset the No. 4-ranked team in the country, 52-49, on a three-pointer by forward Aaron Pinckney at the buzzer on January 4 last year and is 18-2 against the PSAC West since the start of the 2006-07 season.

The Warriors led from start to finish after coming from behind in their last two wins over Caldwell (73-60) on December 20 and Clarion (75-65) on Saturday. They opened the game on a 16-4 run in the first five minutes, had their lead tightened to two points midway through the half, then pulled away with a 17-2 stretch early in the second half after holding a 33-23 advantage at the break.

Heimbach led ESU in scoring for the fourth time in the last five games with 17 points and Pines had one of the best all-around games of his career. He scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half and went 8-for-8 from the foul line for the second straight game while adding three steals to his line of six rebounds and seven assists. He also had just one turnover and leads the PSAC with 6.5 assists per game and a 91.7 percent mark (33-for-36) at the foul line.

Freshman forward Terrance King (12 points) and junior guard Mike DeMarco (10) were also in double figures, freshman forward Marcus Brown had eight points and seven rebounds and junior forward Mike Tobin scored seven points, including his first three-pointer of the season that sparked the Warriors at the nine-minute mark of the first half.

George Johnson led Gannon (4-6) with 22 points but was just 6-for-17 from the field as the Golden Knights shot 34.8 percent for the game. The Warriors have held eight of their first 11 opponents under 40 percent during their undefeated start.

DeMarco (five points) and King combined to score the Warriors' first nine points and Heimbach buried a three-pointer during the 16-4 run to start the game before Johnson responded with three straight three-pointers for Gannon.

The Golden Knights trailed by two (21-19) with just over nine minutes left following a jumper by Danard Crouch, who had 14 points, before Tobin connected from long distance to start a 12-4 spurt to close the first half. Gannon missed all 10 of its shots from the field and had four turnovers during the stretch.

Pines started the Warriors' second-half run with a layup that made the score 37-28 with 17:15 left. Heimbach followed with a pair of buckets, on a tip-in after a steal and missed layup by Pines and a jumper assisted by his senior running mate, and Pines had another steal and set up a layup by Tobin that gave ESU a 15-point lead at 43-28.

DeMarco's second triple of the game put the Warriors up 18 and the lead reached as many as 23 points (61-38) with exactly 10 minutes to play.

ESU will face Lock Haven (Saturday) and Edinboro (Sunday) on the road next weekend in its final non-conference action of the season. The Warriors' 11-0 start is one of eight 10-game winning streaks in school history, and a win at Lock Haven would match the program's longest unbeaten start.