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Kenyon College Athletics

Gefen Bar-Cohen
Graham Stokes
65
Kenyon Kenyon 7-17,0-15 NCAC
77
Winner Oberlin Ober 8-16,4-11 NCAC
Kenyon Kenyon
7-17,0-15 NCAC
65
Final
77
Oberlin Ober
8-16,4-11 NCAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Kenyon Kenyon 35 30 65
Oberlin Ober 42 35 77

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Oberlin holds off Kenyon in NCAC battle

OBERLIN, Ohio -- Kenyon College sophomore Gefen Bar-Cohen and first-year Nick Nelson took over the Owls offense Wednesday night, but they couldn't steer it past an Oberlin College men's basketball team that chalked up a 77-65 home win in North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) action.

Bar-Cohen, the Owls leading scorer, pumped in 26 points, just a triple shy of his season-high. Meanwhile, Nelson tossed in 18, two shy of his season-high. They were the only two double-digit scorers for Kenyon and they accounted for nearly 68 percent of the team's offense.

Oberlin countered with a trio of double-digit scorers. Dorde Otasevic set the tone with team-highs of 21 points and a dozen rebounds. Will Bousquette buried four three-pointers and finished with 16 points, while Dimitrije Radusinovic scored 15 for the host Yeomen.

For the first 12 minutes of the opening period, the teams went back-and-forth with neither team gaining a lead of more than four points. After five lead changes and six tied scores, the Yeomen began to pull away. A three-pointer from Bousquette ignited a brief 10-2 run for the Yeomen, who moved ahead 29-21. 

Kenyon would later close within five, but another Bousquette three-pointer, this time with 1:51 left on the clock, extended the Oberlin lead to a first-half high of 11 points. Bar-Cohen, who had 14 points in the half, helped cut things back down to seven and the Owls trailed at the break, 42-35.

Five tally marks from Bar-Cohen's first-half output came at the free throw line, where he sank all but one of his six attempts. On the other side of the court, Bousquette made a trio of triples and had 11 points before the break. His teammate and the team's leading scorer, Otasevic, a 6-8 forward, had a dozen points and five rebounds in his first 17 minutes of work.

In the second half, Kenyon continued to chip away at the Oberlin lead, but the Yeomen always seemed to have an answer. Within the first eight minutes, Kenyon pulled within three points on three different occasions. Oberlin followed with a score each time. Then, at the 12:23 mark, Kenyon first-year Povilas Cereska completed a three-point play to cut the lead to two at 51-49. The Yeomen retaliated with a 15-4 run in which Bousquette scored five more and pushed the lead out to 13 points.

Despite ten points from Nelson in the half, the Owls couldn't recuperate from that Oberlin run and never got closer than 10 points during the final five minutes of play.

The loss dropped Kenyon to 7-17 overall and 0-15 in the NCAC, while the win bumped Oberlin to 8-16 overall and 4-11 in the conference.

The Owls have  just one game left on their 2022-23 schedule and it will be against Denison University at Tomsich Arena on Saturday at 3 p.m.
 
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