The Bulldog men’s bas­ket­ball team was in good spir­its this week­end after defeat­ing both Tiffin and Ohio Dominican to start the GLIAC schedule.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs hosted Ohio Dominican and kept a com­mand­ing lead through the game, as they man­aged to rack up a 50 per­cent field goal shoot­ing per­cent­age to Ohio’s 32.3 per­cent in the first half, slightly decreas­ing that per­cent­age in the sec­ond half but still dom­i­nat­ing over Ohio. The Bulldogs ended the game on top win­ning, 86–60.

Thursday, the Bulldogs played in their first game of the GLIAC con­fer­ence of the sea­son against Tiffin. They got off to a strong seven-point lead, and went into half time lead­ing by 15.

“At one point we got out to a 32-point lead,” senior guard Matt DeHart said. “It showed how good of a team we can be and how far we have come.”

The Bulldogs forced Tiffin to turnover the ball 18 times, includ­ing 13 steals through­out the game for the Bulldogs.

Senior forward/center Justin Keenan scored 24 points and pulled-down nine rebounds on route to being the lead­ing scorer of the game. Senior guard Darien Gray had 18 points, includ­ing four three-pointers, and DeHart put forth eight points, nine rebounds, two assists, and two steals.

“It was a good win and a good first step for­ward,” DeHart said. “Everyone played well. But in the sec­ond half we could have played harder with a lit­tle more intensity.”

With the wins, the Bulldogs now stand at 5–2 over­all, 2–0 in the con­fer­ence, and a 5–0 stand­ing at home.

“These con­fer­ence wins help us stay unde­feated in the GLIAC, and we look for­ward to keep­ing up the good work,” sopho­more guard/forward Kenny Brown said.

The Bulldogs will travel to Hillsdale next Tuesday and come back home to host Northwood on Saturday to con­tinue GLIAC con­fer­ence play. n