BALTIMORE – Senior forward Yaw Obeng-Mensah scored a career high 19 points, leading four Retrievers (1-1) in double figures as UMBC defeated Penn State-York, 92-65, in the home opener of the 2022-23 season.

The Retrievers scored 52 second half points, hitting 22 of their first 33 shots from the floor in the period.  
Senior guard Jacob Boonyasith scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting, while graduate students Jarvis Doles and Colton Lawrence added 13 apiece.

Penn State-York's Deriq Brown led all scorers with 20 points.

COACH FERRY'S TAKE: "I thought we did a good job in the second half of being significantly more aggressive, both defensively and offensively. Our energy in the second half was significantly better on both sides of the ball. I thought we did a good job of adjusting in the second half.

"I thought we had a really good crowd. They were loud, the students came out for an early season game. I appreciate that, hopefully they'll continue to come out. We want to play aggressive, we play hard, we play fast, so hopefully people enjoy that style, they'll continue to come out and we'll continue to win games."   



HOW IT HAPPENED – FIRST HALF

• The Retrievers trailed, 8-5, but used an 8-0 run, punctuated by a Mason Docks trey to take a 14-8 advantage with 12:26 to play in the first half.
• UMBC gradually built the lead, then finished the half on an 11-2 run, capped by a Jarvis Doles trey just before the buzzer. The hosts led, 40-24, at the break.

FIRST HALF STATS

• Doles led the way with 13 points, while Boonyasith hit all four field goals in a 10-point effort. Obeng-Mensah scored 5 points, added 7 rebounds and a pair of blocked shots.
• The Retrievers hit 13-of-22 shots (59.1 percent) from inside the arc.

HOW IT HAPPENED – SECOND HALF

• UMBC scored the first six points of the half, punctuated by a powerful alley-oop slam from Obeng-Mensah, courtesy of Craig Beaudion III.
• The Retrievers scored on their first eight possessions of the half. They built a 56-32 lead at the 14:29 mark to take total control of the contest.

STATS AND NOTES    

• Obeng-Mensah also recorded the first double-double of his career, adding a game-high 10 rebounds.
• Eleven different Retrievers scored, including junior forward Anyang Garang, who knocked down a second half trey in his first appearance as a Retriever. Garang, a 2021-22 6-foot-9 transfer from Oklahoma, missed all of last season and much of the preseason due to injury.

UP NEXT

• UMBC hosts 2021-22 Ivy League regular season champion Princeton on Monday, Nov. 14. Tip-off time is set for 6:00 p.m. at Chesapeake Arena. The game will be televised regionally by MASN.