The Lakeland men's basketball team traveled to Lorain County Community College today to face the Commodores. The Lakers used a mini-run later in the first half to held lead them to an eventual 84-71 victory. With the win, Lakeland improves its' record to 9-3 (3-0). The teams were tied at 21 with a little more than 10 minutes gone in the first half when Jaden Woods connected on 1-2 free throws to give the Lakers a 22-21 edge. Both teams would miss scoring opportunities and committ tiurnovers for the next couple of minutes before Woods connected on a jumper to extend the lead to 3 points. Following a Commodore turnover and foul, Jaidon Lipscomb would hit a pair of free throws to give the Lakers a 5 point lead at 26-21.After another Commodore turnover, Elhadji Thiam would record an offense rebound and put-back layup to extend the lead to 28-21. From there, the Lakers would not look back as they would cruise to the victory.

Jaidon Lipscomb finished as the games leading scorer with 33 points. Lipscomb was blistering from the floor as he shot 11-16 from the field. Lipscomb also finished shooting 4-7 from the arc and 7-8 from the line. Elhadji Thiam had an outstanding night as he talled 19 points and a team leading 17 rebounds for the double-double. Landon Tillman also scored 13 points and picked up 5 rebounds in the Laker win.

T's Thoughts: "We had low energy to start the game. Fortunately, we picked up pur play as the game wore on. In the second half, we started defending a bit better and were more physical which helped fuel our offense. We had good contributions off the bench and tonights starters brought us home in the end."

Next Up: On Tuesday, the Lakers will close out the fall semester by traveling to Bryant & Stratton College to face the Bobcats. The game is scheduled to be played at Ursuline College with an 8:00 pm tip.