The Ashland University men’s basketball team took on the Walsh University Cavaliers in a Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) competition on Thursday Jan. 9 at Kate’s Gymnasium. 

This game quickly started out as a back-and-forth matchup until Ashland found themselves down 15-11 after over seven minutes of play in the first half. During this time tensions started to get high as senior guard Gbolohan Adio committed the only technical foul of the game after making a deep three and giving a comment to Walsh’s bench. 

But redshirt junior forward Maceo Williams didn’t let the Cavaliers take the charge for too long. The Eagles scored four quick points to tie it up at 15. Then with 5:08 to go in the first half they completed a 14-6 run on the Cavs to go up by eight. Williams led all Eagles players with 14 first half points and Ashland would head into the locker room with a 35-30 lead.  

The Eagles come out of the break firing from all cylinders and leaning on redshirt sophomore wing Cooper Davis to lead the way from outside the arc. Davis hit three, three pointers in the first six minutes of play including momentum building back-to-back makes from three which got the whole gym fired up. 

Walsh would need to call a timeout down 52-37 to regroup and find an answer to Davis, but less than a minute later Davis would hit another one from deep. Redshirt sophomore wing/guard Aden Gregory decided to join Davis’s big night as he made his second three of the night to continue to bury Walsh.  

Davis and Gregory would each make one more three-pointer to help close out the night on the Cavs with a final score of 80-61 in an Ashland Victory.  

Williams led the team in achieving a double-double with 24 points on an efficient 12-13 from the floor and adding 11 rebounds. Davis finished with 23 points going 6-9 from three, a career-high in making three-pointers. Gregory came off the bench and gave the Eagles 11 points and 3 makes from downtown.  

Walsh dips down to a 5-7 record and a 1-5 conference record, while Ashland moves up to 8-6 overall and 4-3 in the conference. Ashland plans to build on that win and will have to travel take on Thomas More University for their next game on Saturday Jan. 11.