Campus News
February 17th, 2026
Lakers win for seventh time in eight games
Harper, Kos each score 18 in 113-72 blowout of Davis & Elkins JV
Cory Harper and Petar Kos each scored 18 points Monday night as Garrett College routed visiting Davis & Elkins College's junior varsity, 113-72.
The Lakers (15-10) won for the seventh time in the last eight games. GC also broke the 100-point mark for the fourth time in the last six contests, scoring 66 second-half points to break the game wide open after building a 47-30 lead at the break.
"Our guys understand that this is the stretch run of our season and that every day our objective is to keep getting better," said GC head coach Matt McCullough. "I thought we did a good job of that for the most part in the second half."
Lenny Smith scored 16 points, Tyree Eloise added 12, and Nehemiah Johnson scored 11 for the Lakers. Will Huckabone and Zion Robinson scored 10 each and Josh Evander just missed becoming an eighth Laker in double figures with eight points.
John Wilkins led Davis & Elkins with a game-high 23 points while Charles Hagy III and Zayden Sharod added 15 and 13, respectively, for the guests.
The Lakers played their next three games on the road against Allegany College of Maryland (February 18), WVU-Potomac State (February 21), and Robert Morris University junior varsity (February 23). GC's final home game is next Wednesday against the College of Southern Maryland before the Lakers end the regular season with a 3 p.m. game at CCBC-Dundalk on February 28.
Chesapeake 73, GC 65
Garrett College has pulled off some fairly epic comebacks this men's basketball season. The Lakers' latest rally came up just short Saturday afternoon.
"We made a nice adjustment defensively, but we just dug ourselves such a big hole," said GC head coach Matt McCullough, whose squad whittled a 19-point deficit to just three before the comeback stalled.
"We had a lot of unforced errors, way too many turnovers, missed too many free throws, and gave up too many second-chance points," added McCullough, whose squad shot 13-for-27 from the free-throw line as its six-game winning streak came to an end.
Chesapeake College (17-6 overall, 5-5 region) took the lead for good with a 16-2 run that included three hoops and seven points from Xavier Buchanan (12 points). That gave the Skipjacks a 40-27 lead late in the opening half.
Chesapeake opened the second half with a 9-0 scoring binge, the last five points from La'Shaun Moody (game-high 25 points), as the Skipjacks built their largest lead at 49-30.
Garrett (14-10, 6-4) still trailed by 12 points (63-51) when the Lakers put together an 11-2 streak to pull within 65-62. Five Lakers scored during the run, which Cory Harper (15 points) finished with a pair of free throws with 1:30 remaining.
Petar Kos (nine points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists) then came up with a steal, giving the Lakers a chance at a potential tying possession, but GC turned the ball right back over. Moody then hit a floater and both ends of a one-and-one to rebuild Chesapeake's lead to 69-62.
Lenny Smith (10 points, 10 rebounds) banked home a 3-pointer from inside the halfcourt circle, getting the Lakers back within 69-65, but Nehemiah Johnson (12 points, 13 rebounds, four blocks) missed two free throws with 19 seconds. The Skipjacks then put the game away with a pair of free throws from both Elisha Johnson-Dixon (nine points) and Moody.
Marquis Hamby was the third Skipjack in double figures with 11 points. Keyonta Johnson had 14 points and eight rebounds for GC as four Lakers hit double digits.
"There's some things to learn from this game," said McCullough. "There's some positivity in there – especially down the stretch – but we've got some things to work on."
Garrett 119, WCCC 100
Lenny Smith scored 24 points and Cory Harper added 21 last Wednesday as the Lakers ran their winning streak to six straight games against Westmoreland County Community College.
Smith was 11-for-17 from the field and Harper finished 8-for-13, including 5-of-9 from the 3-point line. Petar Kos added 18 points while Nehemiah Johnson and Sefton Robinson scored 13 each for Garrett, which improved to 14-9.
Laker Luis Botelho had nine points and a team-high seven assists, and teammate Tyree Eloise chipped in eight points as all 10 Lakers scored.
Garrett topped the 100-point mark for the third time in four games and the sixth time this season.
