LEIPSIC, Del. (Interstat) — Nehemiah Reedus scored 19 points and Delaware State closed the first half with a decisive run before pulling away from visiting Saint Vincent for an 86-52 victory in a men’s NCAA Division I basketball game Monday at Memorial Hall. The Hornets improved to 1-0. Saint Vincent was a non-divisional opponent. Delaware State’s team nickname is Hornets. The game drew 518 at Memorial Hall in Leipsic, Del.

Delaware State scored 40 points in the first half and 46 in the second. Saint Vincent scored 28 points in the first half and 24 in the second. The Hornets scored 86 points from 69 possessions, an offensive rating of 124.8, and finished with seven total offensive rebounds, 13 total assists, nine total turnovers and 13 total fouls.

The most important stretch came late in the first half. Saint Vincent had pulled within 32-24 on Jaden Payne’s layup with 6:09 remaining, but Delaware State scored the final 14 points of the half. Joshua Obiora made two layups and a dunk during the run, Reedus added a jumper with 2:19 left and Nasir Muhammad hit 3-pointers with 1:10 and 14.6 seconds remaining to give the Hornets a 46-24 halftime lead.

Reedus sparked Delaware State early. The guard opened the scoring with a layup at 18:43, made a 3-pointer at 17:56, added another layup at 16:24 and hit a jump shot off a turnover at 14:37. He made another 3-pointer at 12:36 and finished with 19 points, five rebounds and one assist in 30 minutes. Muhammad added 18 points, five rebounds and three assists in 25 minutes, including four 3-pointers.

Joshua Obiora finished with 10 points, four rebounds and one assist in 20 minutes. Isaiah Sullivan scored 16 points and grabbed five rebounds in 22 minutes. Farouk Muntari had nine points and four rebounds in 13 minutes. Anthony Parker contributed six points, four rebounds and five assists in 15 minutes.

Gideon Ekukwai, a 6-foot-9 forward from Kampala, Uganda, who previously attended International School, had six points and two rebounds in 10 minutes. Jalen StClair, a 5-11, 165-pound guard from Coronado High School, had two points, one rebound and one assist in 16 minutes. Muazibini Adamu, a 6-foot-10, 211-pound center from Putnam Science Academy, had three rebounds and one assist in 16 minutes. Dean Shepherd grabbed three rebounds in 12 minutes.

Saint Vincent had early answers from Payne, Duncan Spalding, Terek Crosby, Tyree Turner and Isaac Cherry. Payne made layups at 18:16 and 6:09 in the first half, Spalding made a layup at 17:22, Crosby hit 3-pointers at 10:11 and 8:29, Turner made two free throws at 11:27 and Cherry made layups at 13:26 and 7:16 in the first half. Torin Ward added a tip-in layup at 7:41, but the Bearcats went scoreless over the final 6:09 of the half.

Delaware State kept control after halftime. Obiora opened the second half with a layup, and the Hornets stretched their lead to 68-40 on Muntari’s dunk with 8:20 remaining. Saint Vincent got within 23 points at 75-52 on Zemari Days’ 3-pointer with 3:35 left, but Delaware State closed with an 11-0 run. Sullivan made a 3-pointer, a layup and a free throw, and Muntari added two dunks and a free throw to finish the scoring.

Delaware State also got second-half scoring from Reedus on a layup at 18:21 and a 3-pointer at 16:46, while Muhammad hit a 3-pointer at 14:03, a jump shot at 12:08 and another 3-pointer at 11:25. Parker made floating jump shots at 8:47 in the first half and 15:52 in the second half. Sullivan made a jump shot at 8:13, a layup at 6:51 and 3-pointers at 8:59 and 6:06 in the second half.

Saint Vincent received second-half contributions from Spalding on a 3-pointer at 19:26 and free throws at 16:21, Crosby on a 3-pointer at 14:29, Cherry on layups at 13:27 and 12:46, Turner on free throws at 10:03, Collin Jones on a layup at 7:10 and a 3-pointer at 6:34, Colin Masten on two free throws at 5:37, Niko Gidas on free throws at 7:49 and 5:06, and Days on a 3-pointer at 3:35.

The Hornets next play at Navy, then visit Georgetown and East Carolina. They follow with home games against Cheyney and Niagara, road games at Chattanooga and North Carolina A&T, and home contests against New Haven, Maryland-Baltimore County and Binghamton.

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