College men’s basketball: Anteaters fall in fifth-place game

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Jerry Green, Jordan Harris and Adam Parada

each scored 14 points, but it wasn’t enough for the UC Irvine men’s

basketball team as the Anteaters fell to Kent State, 75-64, in the

fifth-place game of the University Hoops Classic at the Sewall Center

Sunday.

Kent State’s Trevor Huffman scored a game-high 22 points to lead the

Golden Flashes.

Kent State took a 37-25 halftime lead and UCI (3-2) could get no

closer than eight points in the second half.

The Anteaters shot 39% from the field in the second half, 43%for the

game.

Kent State shot 46% for the game.

UCI’s Mike Hood and Stanislav Zuzak each had eight points. Harris

contributed seven rebounds while Parada had six.

University Hoops Classic

Fifth-place game

Kent State 75, UC Irvine 64

UC Irvine - Harris 14, Parada 14, Green 14, Hood 8, Zuzak 8, Okoro 6.

3-pt. goals - Hood 2, Zuzak 2, Harris 1.

Fouled out - Hood.

Technicals - UCI bench 1.

Kent State - Huffman 22, Mitchell 12, Gates 11, Shaw 8, Edwards 8,

Thomas 8, Wilkins 3, Bedford 2, Gerwig 1.

3-pt. goals - Huffman 2, Shaw 1, Wilkins 1.

Fouled out - Edwards.

Technicals - Gates 1.

Halftime - Kent State, 37-25.