BEREA, OHIO –  Junior forward Tyler White scored 24 points as the Wilmington College men's basketball team defeated Ohio Athletic Conference foe Baldwin-Wallace College, 75-68, today (Saturday, January 29, 2011) in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Center in Berea.  This was the nightcap of a women's and men's doubleheader.

With its win, Wilmington improved  to 8-11 overall and 4-8 in the OAC. In addition to White for Wilmington, sophomore guard Brandon Candella had 15 points. B-W is now 7-12 overall and 3-9 in the OAC and was led by freshman guard Kevin Krakowiak (Valley City/ Parma Heights Holy Name) with 16 points, freshman forward Kyle Payne (Brunswick) had 15, sophomore forward Sean Rothermel (Delaware/ Hayes) had a career-high 13 and junior All-OAC point guard Promis Cabbil (Elyria) had 12.

In the first half, the Quakers jumped out to a 5-0 lead before Cabbil scored on a layup at 17:17 to slose the gap to 5-2. After a 4-0 Wilmington run made the score 9-2, Payne  made a jump shot to close to 9-4.

Wilmington continued to grow its lead to 16-4 when  junior forward Tyler White grabbed an offensive rebound and in the same motion slammed it home at the 12:56 mark. The Quaker lead grew to a first stanza high of 16 points at 20-4 before the Yellow Jackets stung back for a 6-0 run to close to 20-10 when Cabbil made a layup at 7:58.

After Wilmington rebuilt its lead to 24-10, B-W went on a 9-0 run to close back to 24-19 at the 3:57 mark when Rothermel scored. Undaunted, the Quakers came back with a 6-0 run of their own to rebuild the lead to 11 points at 30-19 with 2:00 left when White scored.  Wilmington closed its 10-0 run with four more points to lead at halftime, 34-19.

In the second half, Wilmington opened by outscoring B-W 7-4 to build its biggest lead at that point at 40-24 when junior guard Antonio Bowman made one of two free throws at 16:54. The Yellow Jackets came right back with a 6-0 run to close to 40-30 when Cabbil made a driving layup at 15:02. 

 
B-W kept up the pressure and closed to seven points at 52-45 when Krakowiak made a three-pointer at 5:43, but on the ensuing possession Wilmington freshman guard Klarke Ransome scored, was fouled and made the free throw mto push the lead back to 10 points at 55-45.

After another Ransome basket at 3:31 made it a 12-point game at 57-45, but B-W wasn't done.  It closed to four points at 65-61 with 1:05 left when Krakowiak canned a triple. After the teams traded points, the Quakers made three of four foul shots to lead 70-63. Payne then followed with a long three-pointer with 25.4 seconds to cut the lead to 70-66.

Candella made it a six-point game at 72-66 with 22.8 left when he made two foul shots. A Cabbil layup again cut it to four at 72-68 with 18 ticks left. A pair of Bowman free throws made it six points again at 74-68 with 14 seconds left and one by Candella with four second left ended the scoring.

Today's game was taped and will be televised by SportsTime Ohio tonight at 8:00 p.m.  The B-W versus Wilmington women's game will air at 6:00 p.m.

The Yellow Jackets are back in action on Wednesday, February 2 when they host OAC-rival Otterbein University in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in the Lou Higgins Center at 7:30 p.m.  In addition, fans can listen to all of the action on either campus radio station WBWC, 88.3 FM, or via the WBWC Internet web site at www.wbwc.com.

FOR MORE B-W SPORTS INFORMATION, please contact Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327 and e-mail at kruple@bw.edu or Assistant SID Jeff Miller by phone at 440-826-2780 and e-mail at jefmille@bw.edu. Fans can access the latest B-W athletics information at www.bw.edu/athletics and we invite you to join us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bwathletics.