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BLOOMSBURG—The Bloomsburg University men's basketball team lost a wild 71-70 game to Mansfield University Wednesday night during which the Huskies coach, Rich Mills, was ejected after picking up two technical fouls in the first half.

With the score tied 15-15 with 10:29 to play in the first half, Bloomsburg's Adam Bohman (Sussex, NJ/Vernon Twp) appeared to be poked in the eye by a Mansfield player. After no call was made, Bohman continued to try and pass the ball when it appeared that he was poked again. This time Bohman shoved the Mansfield player resulting in an intentional foul on Bohman.

Coach Mills then went over to argue the call with officials. After a few minutes, Mills was hit with his first technical foul. After the discussions continued between the officials and Mills, the officials hit Mills with a second technical and ejected him from the game. The Mounties Brett Longpre` then made four free throws for the technicals, while Glenn Jackson hit one of two for the intentional foul to give Mansfield a 21-15 lead after Jason Clayton scored when play resumed.

The Huskies, though, responded by going on a 15-4 run to take a 30-25 lead with 5:42 left in the half. After the lead grew to eight, 35-27, on two free throws by Jaren Burdine (Reading/Reading), the Mounties rallied got to within two points, 36-34, with 1:40 left to play. Bloomsburg, though, closed out the half with baskets by Bohman, Ryan Luckman (York/York Catholic) and Justin Scott (Philadelphia/Engineering and Science) to lead 42-34 at the break.

In the second half, the teams hung close to each other with the Huskies holding their last lead of the game ar 68-65 on a free throw by Adam Bohman. The Mounties then got a jumper from Ian Connor and a layup from Longpre` with 1:20 left to go up 69-68. After another layup by Jeremy Frey for Mansfield made it a 71-68 game, the Huskies got two free throws from Luckman with 44 seconds left to make it a 71-70 game. Bohman was later fouled with nine seconds to play, but missed both free throws forcing the Huskies to foul. Jason Roscoe then missed the front end of the one and one with Luckman rebounding and running up court looking for the game winner. However, his runner in the lane was no good and Matt Jefferson's (Philadelphia/Engineering and Science) follow up came after the buzzer giving Mansfield the win.

Bloomsburg was led by Bohman with 27 points, while Luckman finished with 17. Mansfield got 18 points each fdrom Connor and Longpre in the win.

Bloomsburg will visit Kutztown Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.