Marshall University
beat Morehead State
85-71
playing basketball
at Cam Henderson
Center, Saturday
evening giving new
coach Ron Jirsa his
first Herd victory.
The close
rival brought out
4,383 fans to see
the match up
that has had some
excellent memorable
games from past
years.
The
game stayed fairly
close with
Marshall having a
36-29
lead at the
half. It looked
like Morehead was
going to make a game
of
it coming within
two points about the
middle of the
second half.
The
Herd then took
control and took a
substantial lead to
never look back and
win the game with
little threat of the
Eagles
making a come back.
