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Scots Shut Down At Hope

HOLLAND, Mich. - Alma College men's basketball feel to 2-14 overall and 1-5 in league play with an 86-53 loss to Hope College Saturday at DeVos Fieldhouse. Hope improves to 14-2, 6-0 in the MIAA.

Hope opened the game with a 16-0 run and held the Scots to just four points through the first 10 minutes of the game, running 26-4. By halftime, Alma was trailing 43-20. Hope extended its lead by an additional 10 points in the second half.

Turnovers plagued the Scots as they racked up 27 miscues to just nine Hope turnovers. The Scots allowed Hope to shoot 50.8 percent from the field, matching with a mark hovering around 32 percent on the Scots' side of the floor.

Shot selection - mainly three pointers - was an issue as Alma went just 2-for-11 from three point range in the second half and shot just 23 percent for the game while Hope shot 60 percent same distance, going 6-for-10.

Isaac Smith (Merrill) was the only scorer in double figures for the Scots with 13 points, recording seven of the team's turnovers. Isaac Thaler (Middleville/Thornapple-Kellogg) added nine points and eight boards, to lead the team.

Alma looks ahead to Wednesday, Jan. 24 when it hosts Adrian College at 8 p.m. in the second of a men's/women's doubleheader bill.

Posted: Sat, January 20th, 2007 at 5:20PM

 

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Terry Smith

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.

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