YORK, Pa. – McDaniel scored the first nine points of the game and never trailed in a 77-65 victory over Pitt-Greensburg in non-conference men's basketball action at the Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament hosted by York (Pa.) on Friday.

Wes Brooks (North Wales, Pa./North Penn) scored a career-high 22 points to lead the Green Terror (2-0), who advances to Sunday's championship game against the host Spartans.

Marcus Thomas paced the Bobcats (1-1) with 17 points.

McDaniel jumped out to a 9-0 lead behind five points from Duane Echols (Jessup, Md./Hammond) before Pitt-Greensburg dented the scoreboard with a three-point play by Thomas with 17:55 to play.

A Kevin Yrizarry (Owings Mills, Md./Owings Mills) putback and Christopher Cantine (Baltimore, Md./Randallstown) 3-pointer in the corner pushed the lead to double digits for the first time at 14-3 with 17:02 showing.

A Thomas triple napped a nearly three-minute drought by both teams before Brooks just beat the shot clock at the other end with a 15-foot baseline jumper.

The McDaniel lead ballooned to 30-14 on a Yrizarry putback with 4:39 to play.

Jarell Figueroa snapped a 5-minute, 15-second drought for the Bobcats, hitting the team's fourth 3-pointer of the first half.

A Brooks steal and three-point play pushed the advantage to 37-20 with 1:17 showing en route to a 39-22 game at the break.

The Bobcats scored eight of the first 10 points in the second half to close to within 41-30 with 18:12 remaining.

A Colin Bortner (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) fast-break layup pushed the lead back to 47-33 with 16:28 on the clock.

A Thomas three-point play closed the deficit to 49-39 with 9:55 remaining.

A Brooks trey pushed the lead back out to 56-40 with 7:10 showing but a Figueroa three-point play capped an 8-0 run to pull his team within 56-48 with 4:48 to play but could get no closer.

Echols chipped in 18 points for the Green Terror while Christopher Cantine (Baltimore, Md./Randallstown) and Tim Stewart (Smyrna, Del./Smyrna) added 11. Stewart led the way on the glass with nine rebounds while Yrizarry had eight and Brooks added six to go with three assists and four steals.

Game time on Saturday is 3 p.m.

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