Another typical night in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference (GRAC).  Lake Land College needed two of its reserves to help its winning ways 80-52 against the scrappy Rend Lake College Warriors.  The Lakers improve their record to 5-3 in the GRAC and 14-8 overall.

Bryon "Fugi" Wright (Paducah, KY) poured in a season high 17 points on 6 of 7 shooing from the field and 5 of 6 from behind the arc. "He's doing a really good job of knocking down the open jump shot," Lake Land coach Cedric Brown said. "That's part of the reason why we're playing so well. 

"I think the guys are finally starting to come together. We're doing the little things, taking care of the basketball, trying to play inside-out. By doing that, Paris (Carter) and Moussa (Gueye) are commanding double teams and they're doing a really good job of passing the ball out of the double teams and finding shooters, and our shooters are finally starting to knock down shots."

The other part of the Paducah Tilghman duo, Stefon Perry added 12 points and 4 rebounds.  Carter gave the Lakers 13 points and 7 boards, while Travis Scott added 11.  Athough Gueye only had 4 points he dominated the glass with 14 and affected the game defensively by recording 7 blocks. 

"Moussa is progessing well" Coach Brown said.  "He is a presence on the defensive end and he is getting better each game offensively."

The Lakers enter the second half  of the conference season with the high-powered Volunteers of John A. Logan.  The Vols are currently undefeated in GRAC play and are 16-4 overall.  In their last meeting, the Vols outlasted the Lakers in ovetime 77-75 in Mattoon.  The Lakers are 1-4 in their last five meetings with John A. Logan and have not beaten them in Carterville since Coach Brown took over the program. 

"Real tough ball games," Brown said. "We're just going to get back to work on Monday and prepare for John A. Logan. And we're going to get down there on Wednesday and try to continue to play good basketball."  Tip off is at 7:30pm.