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ALMA MATER
In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
Refrain:
Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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Gold Rush rally late to take sole possession of GCAC lead
January 19, 2013
Box score
NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Simmons scored a season-high
23 points, and Nick Haywood scored all five of his points during a closing run
Saturday which gave Xavier University of Louisiana an 84-79 Gulf Coast Athletic
Conference men's basketball victory against Philander Smith.
The Gold Rush (17-3 overall, 5-0 GCAC), ranked 13th in
NAIA Division I, took sole possession of first place in the conference.
They ended the nine-game win streak of the Panthers (13-5, 4-1), who are
ranked 22nd.
Simmons was 7-of-10 from the floor and 9-of-11 from
the line before fouling out with 35 seconds remaining. But that came 13 seconds
after Haywood made his only 3-pointer of the game to put Xavier ahead to stay,
80-78.
Xavier outscored Philander Smith 9-1 after Juvon
Demerson's two free throws a 78-75 lead with 1:46 remaining. Haywood's basket
at 1:35 cut the Panthers' lead to 78-77, and he followed with the go-ahead
trey after Denzell Erves rebounded Alvin Nance's missed shot at 1:04.
Philander Smith, a second-year GCAC member, had a
chance to tie the score when Simmons fouled out, but Demerson made one free
throw and missed a second to keep Xavier ahead 80-79. The Gold Rush made
4-of-4 free throws thereafter — two by Wanto Joseph with 27 seconds
remaining, two by Olivier Siewe with 10.4 to play — to preserve a
season-high-tying sixth consecutive victory. Philander Smith missed a pair of
3-pointers in the final 11 seconds.
Simmons produced back-to-back 20-point games for the
first time in his career. Joseph had 21 points, eight assists and five
rebounds — he has scored in double figures in every game this season
— and Renard Smith made four 3-pointers and scored 17 points for Xavier.
Erves missed his third consecutive double-double by two points but grabbed 11 rebounds to
reach double figures for the sixth time in seven games.
Haywood's late points came after he scored a combined
four points in the previous two games. He was scoreless Monday in an overtime
home victory against SUNO.
Nance made 4-of-4 3-pointers, scored 23 points and
grabbed eight rebounds to lead Philander Smith. Demerson had 22 points and
four blocked shots, D'Alvin Brown scored 13 points, and Clayton Busby scored
11. Damarkus Lipscomb had 16 assists, 10 in the first half, to set a record
in XU's first-year Concovation Center. His assists matched the most by an NAIA
D-I player this season.
The Panthers made five 3-pointers, two each by Nance
and Busby, to take their largest lead, 22-10, at 12:24 of the first half. But
Xavier rallied to take a 45-41 lead and built its advantage to 70-58 after
Smith's 3-pointer with 8:12 remaining. Then the Panthers regained the lead by
making 10-of-11 free throws in a 20-5 run during the next 6½ minutes.
Xavier shot 45.9 percent from the floor, including
9-of-18 3-pointers, and made 19-of-23 free throws. Philander Smith shot 43.4
percent from the floor, including 10-of-25 3-pointers, and made 23-of-31 free
throws. Xavier had a 35-32 rebound advantage.
The Gold Rush clinched a 13th consecutive winning
season, which extends a school record, and are assured of a 22nd consecutive
season at .500 or better. The last losing season was in 1989-90.
The teams will meet again Feb. 9 in Little Rock, Ark.
Next for Xavier will be a 1 p.m. Monday GCAC home game against Fisk, which
lost 80-72 Saturday at Dillard.
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC).
Xavier fields men's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis and track and field and women's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis, track and field and volleyball.
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
Xavier University of Louisiana
1 Drexel Drive
Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
(504) 520-7934 fax
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