Box ScoreBLOOMSBURG - Junior forwards
Rasheed Moore and
Steve Harris both posted double-doubles and East Stroudsburg University used a 15-1 run early in the second half to notch a 91-74 win at Bloomsburg in PSAC East men's basketball on Tuesday night at Nelson Field House.
Moore had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Harris had 12 points and 14 rebounds, redshirt senior guard
Will Brown scored 18 points and freshman guard
Najee Walls had a season-high 15 points with five assists for the Warriors (6-1, 3-1), who host Edinboro Friday night at Koehler Fieldhouse.
Christian Mortellite had 24 points and Donell Diggs had 16 points and six assists for Bloomsburg (4-3, 2-1). Mortellite entered as the PSAC's second-leading scorer with 21.5 per game.
ESU led by as many as 17 points (42-25) in the first half and held off a 12-0 Bloomsburg run spanning halftime as the Huskies cut the deficit to 42-37 with 18:20 remaining.
The Warriors responded with the next seven points, including six straight from Harris. They pushed a 49-41 lead to 59-41 with a 10-0 stretch, getting two three-pointers from Walls and a three from Brown, then scored five more on a Moore three-point play and a steal and dunk to make it 64-42 at the 11:30 mark.
Moore and Harris are the first ESU teammates with double-doubles since the 2011-12 season opener, when Duane Johnson had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Terrance King posted 18 points and 11 rebounds in a 96-92 loss to No. 6-ranked West Liberty in a tournament at Shippensburg.
Moore had his first double-double of the season and the seventh of his career. Harris, fifth in the PSAC in rebounding (9.3 rpg) entering the week, had his third in the last five games.
Moore added career-highs with four assists and four steals and the Warriors had a season-high 14 steals on 17 Bloomsburg turnovers.
Redshirt junior guard
Quindell Brice added 10 points, senior guard
Jamal Nwaniemeka scored seven and sophomore guard
Ryan Krawczeniuk had four points, five assists and three steals.
ESU shot 51.5 percent (17-for-33) from the field and 5-for-11 from the three-point line in the second half, and 47.8 percent overall and 7-for-26 from long distance for the game.
The Warriors held Bloomsburg to 24.2 percent (8-for-33) in the first half and 34.8 percent (23-for-66) for the contest.