Box Score

EAST STROUDSBURG – Junior guard Gerald Bridges, Jr. had career-highs with 11 points and 13 rebounds for his first double-double and was one of six East Stroudsburg University players in double figures in a 99-75 win over St. Thomas Aquinas in non-conference men's basketball on Tuesday night at Koehler Fieldhouse.

Junior forward Terrance King tied his career-high with 20 points, going 8-for-8 from the field including his first career three-pointer. Junior forward Duane Johnson had 13 points, six rebounds and seven assists, freshman guard Whis Grant had 12 points, four rebounds, seven assists and four steals, senior guard Russell Graham III had 10 points and six assists and freshman guard Matt Tobin scored 16 points for the Warriors (3-3).

ESU extended its home non-conference winning streak to 30 games by shooting 61.7 percent (37-for-60) from the field, their fourth-best mark in 255 games under 10th-year head coach Jeff Wilson.

Tobin and Grant were both 5-for-7, with Tobin knocking down 3-of-4 from the three-point line to improve to 10-for-15 over the last four games. He was the PSAC East Freshman of the Week after scoring 12.3 points per game and shooting 7-for-11 from long distance in three games last week.

ESU was 9-for-9 to open the first half and 8-for-8 to start the second half, connecting on six of its eight three-pointers during the two runs.

It was 22-10 when the Warriors missed their first shot of the game six minutes into the first half, but St. Thomas Aquinas (1-3) got back into it behind a nine-point spurt from Mike Woods (22 points) to pull within 30-27 with 6:43 left in the half.

A quick bucket by King and a three-point play by Grant pushed it back to nine, and a three-pointer by Tobin at the buzzer made it 49-39 at halftime.

The Warriors started the second half on an 11-2 run and scored 23 points in the first 5:24 of the period – five each from Bridges, Graham and Johnson, three each from King and Tobin and a bucket from senior forward Eric Bryan (six points, five rebounds).

Bridges led a rebounding effort that posted a plus-17 margin on the glass, 43 to 26. ESU had 23 assists on its 37 field goals with Johnson and Grant posting career-highs with seven assists.

Woods led St. Thomas Aquinas with 22 points and top scorer Justin Brown had 17. The Spartans shot 44.8 percent (30-for-67) from the field, 4-for-15 from the three-point line and 11-for-21 at the foul line.

ESU has scored 90 points in four of its first six games for just the third time in school history, joining the 2009-10 and 1993-94 teams.

Grant leads four players averaging double figures with 16.3 points, followed by Johnson (14.0), King (13.3) and Tobin (10.7). Grant is just under 10 a game with 9.8 with a team-high 5.2 assists.

The Warriors are shooting 48.0 percent from the floor with King at 68.1 percent (32-47), Tobin at 54.1 percent (20-37), Johnson at 50.0 percent (31-62) and Grant at 48.4 percent (30-62). Tobin (47.6, 10-21) and Grant (40.6, 13-32) are both over 40 percent from the three-point line six games into their freshman seasons.

ESU is off over the Thanksgiving holiday and returns to the floor next Monday, Nov. 28, with a  7 p.m. tip-off against Molloy. The game will be televised on Blue Ridge TV-13.