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Patterson Sparks Syracuse Offense, Leads Orange to Comeback Win Over Carleton (DO; Dougherty)
Syracuse needed a shooter to punish Carleton’s double-down man-to-man and claw back in the second half.
And instead of Trevor Cooney answering that call, sophomore guard Ron Patterson caught fire in the second half.
“I told everybody in (the locker room), Ronnie about two days a week makes every shot,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said of Patterson. “The other five, he misses most of them, so this was one of the two. We don’t have any more games this week, so we don’t have to worry about it.
“He picked today.”
With Cooney and freshman Kaleb Joseph starting in the backcourt, Patterson made his case for minutes in the Orange’s 76-68 exhibition win over Carleton in the Carrier Dome on Sunday. He poured in 15 points and hit 4-of-5 3-point attempts, three of which came in the second half and fueled the comeback against Canada’s four-time defending national champions.
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Christmas Emerges in 2nd Half, Keys SU Comeback Past Carleton 76-68 (DO; Klinger)
Rakeem Christmas watched Syracuse’s zone get tugged side-to-side and shot over. With the increasingly anxious Carrier Dome crowd and Jim Boeheim, he watched SU’s guards fail to get around screens and watched Carleton shooters bury 3s.
Christmas saw the Ravens turn the Orange’s 2-3 zone inside out with passes from the baseline to players cutting to the basket he couldn’t protect. He was on the bench and in foul trouble.
But when he returned to the floor after halftime, he never left. The holes in the Syracuse defense closed up and he filled the one in the middle. Christmas pushed the team out of a half-court game it was losing and into one of runouts and dunks that it won 76-68 in front of 7,812 on Sunday afternoon.
And when the game did settle he fought for, demanded and fully deserved the ball. Mixing power moves with court vision, Christmas finished with 13 points — all in the second half — 3 rebounds and two assists while fueling a run past Carleton that SU hoped, then knew was coming.
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Virgin Galactic Spaceship Was Ripped Apart After Slowing Device Deployed Too Early (AP)
Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship broke apart in flight over California's Mojave Desert after a device to slow the craft's descent prematurely deployed, federal investigators said Sunday.
National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said that while no cause for Friday's crash of SpaceShipTwo has been determined, investigators found the "feathering" system -- which lifts and rotates the tail to create drag -- was activated before the craft reached the appropriate speed.
The system requires a two-step process to deploy. The co-pilot unlocked the system but Hart said the second step occurred "without being commanded."
Hart said the investigation is months from being completed and pilot error and mechanical failure are among many things being looked at.
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Patterson Sparks Syracuse Offense, Leads Orange to Comeback Win Over Carleton (DO; Dougherty)
Syracuse needed a shooter to punish Carleton’s double-down man-to-man and claw back in the second half.
And instead of Trevor Cooney answering that call, sophomore guard Ron Patterson caught fire in the second half.
“I told everybody in (the locker room), Ronnie about two days a week makes every shot,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said of Patterson. “The other five, he misses most of them, so this was one of the two. We don’t have any more games this week, so we don’t have to worry about it.
“He picked today.”
With Cooney and freshman Kaleb Joseph starting in the backcourt, Patterson made his case for minutes in the Orange’s 76-68 exhibition win over Carleton in the Carrier Dome on Sunday. He poured in 15 points and hit 4-of-5 3-point attempts, three of which came in the second half and fueled the comeback against Canada’s four-time defending national champions.
...
Christmas Emerges in 2nd Half, Keys SU Comeback Past Carleton 76-68 (DO; Klinger)
Rakeem Christmas watched Syracuse’s zone get tugged side-to-side and shot over. With the increasingly anxious Carrier Dome crowd and Jim Boeheim, he watched SU’s guards fail to get around screens and watched Carleton shooters bury 3s.
Christmas saw the Ravens turn the Orange’s 2-3 zone inside out with passes from the baseline to players cutting to the basket he couldn’t protect. He was on the bench and in foul trouble.
But when he returned to the floor after halftime, he never left. The holes in the Syracuse defense closed up and he filled the one in the middle. Christmas pushed the team out of a half-court game it was losing and into one of runouts and dunks that it won 76-68 in front of 7,812 on Sunday afternoon.
And when the game did settle he fought for, demanded and fully deserved the ball. Mixing power moves with court vision, Christmas finished with 13 points — all in the second half — 3 rebounds and two assists while fueling a run past Carleton that SU hoped, then knew was coming.
...
Other
Virgin Galactic Spaceship Was Ripped Apart After Slowing Device Deployed Too Early (AP)
Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship broke apart in flight over California's Mojave Desert after a device to slow the craft's descent prematurely deployed, federal investigators said Sunday.
National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said that while no cause for Friday's crash of SpaceShipTwo has been determined, investigators found the "feathering" system -- which lifts and rotates the tail to create drag -- was activated before the craft reached the appropriate speed.
The system requires a two-step process to deploy. The co-pilot unlocked the system but Hart said the second step occurred "without being commanded."
Hart said the investigation is months from being completed and pilot error and mechanical failure are among many things being looked at.
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