St. Clair Men’s Basketball Hosts Playoff Crossover

St. Clair Men’s Basketball Hosts Fleming Saturday in Playoff Crossover

For the first time since 2009 the St. Clair College Basketball team (16-2, West 2nd Place) will face Fleming College (Peterborough) in the post-season. The Saints host the Phoenix Saturday in a playoff crossover game which tips at 3:30pm in the SportsPlex.

This past year the Saints tied their 3rd greatest regular season win total in program history and achieved their 5th highest winning percentage (.889) since the 1980-81 season. St. Clair is currently the OCAA’s #2 ranked team and moved up to #4 in most recent CCAA National poll.

4th year transfer guard Jacob Masters (Toronto, ON) is the 8th leading scorer in the province topping the Saints with a 17.1ppg average while making the most triples in the league (65) with the 2nd best conversion rate at nearly 42% from deep. 4th year forward Mazin Tiea (Windsor, ON/Kennedy) finished with a 16.1ppg for St. Clair which is 10th in the OCAA but was 2nd in field goal percentage (62%), 5th in rebounding (8.7 per game) and led the league in blocked shots with 46 (2.9 per game). St. Clair’s 3rd year transfer guard Kyle Brown-Fazekas (Windsor, ON/Kennedy) nets 13.1ppg along with 4.9 rebounds per contest while fellow 3rd year transfer swing player Amari Frye (Ypsilanti, MI) led the province in assists at 5.7 per game and scores 11.6ppg for the Saints adding 4.2 rebounds a game. 5th year swing player Darnelle Peddie (Pickering, ON) rounds out St. Clair’s double-digit scorers with an even 10.0 per game to go with 3.3 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game.

Fleming finished 7th in in the East Division with a 5-13 record and reached the OCAA post-season for the first time since 2011.