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<\/a> Photos by Tod Fierner \u00a0(Martinez News-Gazette)<\/p>\n
Saint Mary’s College Photographer.<\/p>\n
A strong defensive second half helped the Gaels get past a pesky Pacific team Thursday night as Saint Mary’s moved in sole possession of third place in the West Coast Conference.<\/p>\n
Jordan Ford<\/a>, the WCC’s leading scorer, had another dazzling game as he went off for a game-high 28 points and made 10 of his 13 free throws. The junior entered Thursday’s contest as the third best 3-point shooter in the conference and proved his ability by going 4-of-6 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n As a team, the Gaels were 10-for-17 from distance, 59-percent, which marked their best perimeter shooting performance of the season.<\/p>\n Malik Fitts<\/a> scored 14 points on the night on 5-of-9 shooting while Jordan Hunter<\/a> grabbed a career-high 14 boards, including seven on the offensive glass. Tommy Kuhse<\/a> and Elijah Thomas<\/a> chipped in eight points as well.<\/p>\n Pacific shot 67-percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes but just 36-percent in the second half as the Gaels’ defense did a solid job shutting down the Tigers’ big scorers. Jeremiah Bailey scored a team-high 14 points in the first half for UOP but was held to just two in the final session.<\/p>\n Ford scored six straight during a 14-3 second half run that helped Saint Mary’s pull ahead of the Tigers by double-digits and the Gaels held a comfortable lead for the remainder of regulation. Seven of Ford’s 10 second half points came via the free throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photos by Tod Fierner \u00a0(Martinez News-Gazette) Saint Mary’s College Photographer. A strong defensive second half helped the Gaels get past a pesky Pacific team Thursday … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Ntvs-1FI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}