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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Kenyon College's
Jonathan Amador drained a pair of three-pointers to open Friday night's men's basketball game against Otterbein University. The junior guard never let up the rest of the way and went on to score a career-high 25 points in the Lords' 93-73 romp over the Cardinals in the first game of Case Western Reserve University's Stephanie Tubbs Jones Memorial Tournament.
Amador, whose previous career-high was 18 points, ended up going 6-of-12 from long range. As a team, Kenyon sank 10-of-25 three-point attempts (40 percent). Last season, the Lords never connected on more than nine three-pointers in a game and shot 40 percent or better from beyond the arc just five times in 27 games.
Amador wasn't the only Kenyon player with a hot hand. Senior swingman
Ikenna Nwadibia poured in a game-high 28 points on 11-of-18 shooting from the floor and 5-of-7 shooting from the free throw line. Nwadibia, who racked up a dozen double-doubles last season, grabbed ten rebounds Friday to record his first double-double of the new season. Fellow senior,
Brian Lebowitz, also crafted a double-double, as he posted 10 points and 10 rebounds in 25 minutes of work.
With Amador's hot start, Kenyon opened play with leads of 6-0 and 14-8. Otterbein put together a bit of run and closed two within two points at 14-12 with 11:35 still left on the clock. Kenyon then answered with a 9-0 run that saw
Max Siegrist score twice and
John Bray drain a three-ball. From that point until the final buzzer sounded, the Lords led by double digits for all but two minutes.
Kenyon had a 38-25 halftime lead and moved ahead by as many as 24 points in the second half. The Lords shot 36-of-71 overall (50.7 percent), while holding Otterbein to just 24-of-67 shooting (35.8 percent).
The win springs Kenyon into tomorrow's championship game of the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Memorial Tournament. That contest will get underway at 7 p.m. and the Lords will face the winner of tonight's game between Anderson University and host Case Western Reserve.
