Box Score
The Fighting Scots earned their second trip to the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) title game in four years tonight after capturing a 73-54 win over the visiting Leopards of Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Bennett Athletic Center.

The Scots improve to 21-6 overall on the season while the Leopards finish at 16-11.

Sophomore center Hans Miersma (Whitinsville, Mass.) recorded a 14-point, 10-rebound, four-block night to lead the Scots' way, followed closely by junior guard Luke Hamilton (Mount Airy, N.C.) with 13 points. Also contributing heavily were junior guard Park Thomas (Scottsdale, Ariz.) with 11 points, seven rebounds, and five assists and sophomore forward Jason Dempsey (Wallingford, Conn.) with 10 points and eight boards.

The Scots shot an outstanding 55 percent from the floor (28-51), 41 percent from behind the arc (7-17), out-rebounded their guests 44-30, and received 20 points from the bench en route to the 19-point victory. 

Wentworth guard Derek Mayo (Jr./Casco, Maine) led all Leopards with 13 points and seven rebounds, while Colin Johnson (Sr./El Dorado Hills, Calif.) put up 11 points and grabbed six boards and John Michael Fragnoli (So./Scotia, N.Y.) and Nico Donato (So./Glastonbury, Conn.) chipped in 10 each. 

As a team the Leopards were limited to 32 percent shooting on the night (20-62) and 57 percent from the stripe.

Dempsey and Miersma opened the night by hitting 11 of the Scots' first 15 points, but Wentworth's Mayo and Fragnoli did their part to keep the game close with nine of their team's first 13 to make it just a two-point game at 10:41. Sophomore guard James Ek (Saco, Maine) then netted a jumper from long range and, following a Miersma block at the other end, converted another trey on the next possession. That marked the beginning of an 11-0 run for Gordon behind Ek's six and five from Miersma to give the Scots a 26-13 advantage at 6:18. Wentworth's Dailon Wilson (Sr./Houston, Texas) added the Leopards' only remaining points of the half off a three from Mayo, but David Dempsey (Sr./Wallingford, Conn.) closed out the final minutes with five points to give Gordon the 31-16 lead at the break.

Wentworth's Johnson scored all 11 of his points in the second while Donato and Mayo added eight apiece in the frame, but Gordon's Hamilton also registered his 13 points in the half and Thomas hit nine of his 11 to help the Scots preserve their lead and secure a place in the championship game. In the second half alone, Gordon shot 62 percent from the floor (16-26) and 63 percent from long range (5-8) and won the battle at the boards, 23-11.

With Curry defeating Eastern Nazarene, 82-76, in the other semifinal matchup, the Scots will travel to face the No. 1 seed Colonels on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.