Seven-minute scoreless stretch spells doom for QU men’s basketball team in GLVC opener

FAYETTE, Iowa — A little more than halfway through the first half of Monday’s Great Lakes Valley Conference opener, the Quincy University men’s basketball team ran into a wall.

There was no recovering from that.

The Hawks led Upper Iowa 24-22 following El Sieger’s 3-pointer when the No. 25 Peacocks ripped off a 22-0 run spanning nearly seven minutes that ultimately led to a 93-67 victory at Dorman Memorial Gym.

Quincy chiseled the deficit to 13 points roughly 2 ½ minutes into the second half, but Upper Iowa responded with a 12-2 run to put things out of reach. But the backbreaker was the first-half run in which the Hawks did little correct offensively.

They went 13 possessions without scoring, committed seven turnovers in that span and missed eight consecutive shots. Freshman guard Max Booher broke the scoreless stretch when he scored off dribble penetration with 2:17 to go in the half.

The Hawks committed 23 turnovers overall, leading to 28 points for the Peacocks. Quincy also shot just 43.1 percent from the field. Booher led the Hawks with 21 points, going 5 of 7 from 3-point range and 8 of 11 from the field.

Quincy (3-4, 0-1 GLVC) will continue its three-game road trip Thursday at Drury, which opened league play with an 86-67 victory over Southwest Baptist.