Search Alma: > Log-in to my Alma


Men's Basketball

Scots Men's Basketball loses to host Manchester 82-71

The Alma Men's Basketball team played Friday evening in a first-round tournament game against host Manchester College and gave the home team everything they could handle, only to come up on the wrong end of a 82-71 score. The Scots dropped to 0-2 on the season and will now play Concordia College (MI) for third place at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.

"You never want to lose a game, especially when you believe you had a chance to win," said Alma Head Coach Terry Smith. "But, I am proud of our kids, who went up against a team that was bigger, more experienced and have high expectations for their season. We will build on this, and our young team will learn from these experiences."

Alma came out of the shoot with a vengeance and led most of the first half, taking a 33-31 advantage after the first twenty minutes. Manchester, however, countered quickly in the second half and built a lead they thought would make the visitors go away. But, Alma never quit and made the contest interesting throughout, but the home squad was able to prevail in the end, outscoring the Scots by a margin of 51-38 in the final frame.

Cory Schneider led the Scots with 19 total points, including five of five from three-point range, and Greg Silverthorn was next with 12 points.  Jordan Redditt added nine points for Alma, and Isaac Thaler led the way with five total rebounds for the Scots.

Box Score

Posted: Fri, November 20th, 2009 at 10:11PM

 

The PRISM project, or Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics, is designed to do one thing: Get more students excited about science! Participants are engaged in research opportunities not in their first year of college but prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Read More

 

Coach Profile

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.

Read More