BATESVILLE -- Thirty-two points from the Lyon College
Scots' bench made up for the absence of leading scorer
Jonathan Donaldson in a 75-67 victory over the Ecclesia
College Royals Thursday evening in a nonconference game
at Becknell Gymnasium.
Donaldson sat out the game for a violation of team
rules, but a team-high 15 points from Preston Butts and
12 points and six rebounds from freshman Alex Kelly off
the bench helped make up for his absence.
The Scots also got 13 points from starting point guard
Trey Salley and 11 more from starting forward Charles
Black, who landed in double figures for the fourth game
in a row. Black also led the team with eight rebounds.
Lyon forward Levi Taylor pitched in nine points and six
boards and center Brandon Thomas added eight points.
Matt Owens earned a game-high six assists to go with
four points and five rebounds.
Head coach Kevin Jenkins' Scots shot 16-of-31 (51.6
percent) from the field in the first half en route to a
41-37 lead and hit 25-of-54 shots in the game (46.3
percent).
Oscar Sealy paced the Royals with 17 points and 11
rebounds while teammate T.K. Wright added 18 points and
10 boards.
Lyon won its second straight and improves to 3-1
overall. Ecclesia sinks to 0-4.
