Will Crumly scored 30 points for the second game in a row and James Mitchell added a career-high 29, but that was not enough for the Covenant College Scots in a 103-96 basketball loss Tuesday at Concordia (Texas). Crumly made 15 of his 20 field-goal tries and collected 11 rebounds, while Mitchell was 9-of-18 on 3-point shots and Bailey Spragg contributed 15 points, 12 assists and seven steals. Also for Covenant (5-6), which made 12 of 15 free throws while Concordia (4-9) was hitting 30 of 38, Noah Oetjen scored 10 points and Mitchell Hollis had nine assists. Concordia's Joe Neal and Philip Meikle were a combined 23-of-27 on foul shots in scoring 34 and 22 points, Neal with 10 rebounds and five assists and Meikle with five thefts and four 3s. Detarrius Kirk scored 17 points on 7-of-9 field-goal shooting. The Tornados shot 57.1 percent as a team; Covenant shot 60 percent - 65.6 in the second half.
* Former East Tennessee State basketball star Greg Dennis will have his No. 11 jersey retired before Saturday's 4 p.m. home game against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a top Southern Conference rival of the Buccaneers during his 1987-92 career. Dennis was a four-time all-conference and SoCon all-tournament selection and the most valuable player of the 1992 tourney after scoring 28 points in the final against UTC. That ETSU team went on to beat Arizona in the NCAA tournament and got 31 points from Dennis in the second-round loss to Michigan. He is the Bucs' No. 2 career scorer with 2,204 points (in 127 games), No. 1 in made free throws with 505 and third all-time with 895 rebounds and 174 blocked shots.