NASSAU, Bahamas – Free throws proved to be the difference in the end as the Pirates fell to the Mail Boat Cybots 79-85 in their first game of their international trip to the Bahamas on Thursday night in the Basketball Travelers Summer Thunder event.
Senior guard/forward Du'Vaughn Maxwell (Manhattan, N.Y.) led the Pirates with 27 points and 11 rebounds, starting the year with a double-double, while 2012 MEAC Rookie of the Year sophomore guard Deron Powers (Williamsburg, Va.), added 15 points.
The Pirates shot 44 percent (32-for-75) from the floor, hitting two of their 16 3-pointers (13 percent) and 13 of their 30 free throws (43 percent). Hampton scored 10 points off of 19 Mail Boat Cybot turnovers as well as 18 points in the paint.
Hampton grabbed 55 total rebounds.
Mail Boat Cybot shot 40 percent (28-for-70) from the floor and hit one of its six 3-pointers (17 percent). They also hit 28 of their 50 free throws, going 56 percent from the charity stripe.
Eugene Bain led the Cybots with 21 points and 12 rebounds, while brother Brian Bain added 16 points. Ernest Saunders also scored in double figures with 13 points in the win for Mail Boat Cybots.
The Pirates will return to action on tomorrow, when they take on New Providence All-Stars at the Sir Kendall Issac Gymnasium at 7 p.m. For more information on Hampton University basketball, check them out on twitter @Hampton_MBB, or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.
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