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By Earl Zukerman

QUEBEC CITY – Montreal native Moustafa El Zanaty became the third player in school history to reach the 700-point plateau but he was outshone by Laval’s Xavier Baribeau and Etienne Labrecque, who netted 27 and 26 points, respectively, as Laval continued their dominance over the visiting ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Redmen with a 97-75 victory in men’s hoops action at Quebec City, Saturday.

El Zanaty scored 23 points to lead the Redmen. The 6-foot-4 guard now has 706 points on the season in 30 games overall. The only Redmen who had better offensive outputs in a season were Nasko Golomeev (900 points in 24 games, 1968-69) and Pierre Brodeur (727 points in 25 games, 1969-70).

El Zanaty also has exactly 2,000 points in 136 collegiate career, including 1,196 with the Redmen and the remainder with a number of NCAA schools. He currently has a ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ single record of 81 three-pointers, nine more than teammate Matt Thornhill.

The Rouge et Or, which swept their four-game series over ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, remained tied with for second place with UQAM. Each team sports identical 8-6 records.

The fourth-place Redmen dropped to 5-9 and are tied with Bishop’s, who finished their schedule at 5-11. ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ needs to split their upcoming series with Concordia (Feb. 20-21) in order to assure themselves a playoff berth in the topsy-turvy Quebec conference.

Newspaper Box Score

(Fev14,09 20h00 at Universite Laval)

LAVAL 97, MCGILL 75

MCGILL
Moustafa El Zanaty 9-26 2-2 23; Michael White 8-14 1-2 17; Sean Anthony 5-14 2-3 13; Nicholas Nishikawa 3-6 1-2 9; Matthew Thornhill 3-12 0-0 7; Pawel Herra 1-9 2-2 4; Jeff Cumming 1-1 0-0 2; Erik Galas 0-0 0-0 0; Sebastien Gatti 0-1 0-0 0; Greg Gause 0-0 0-0 0; Michael Flannery 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-83 8-11 75.

LAVAL
Xavier Baribeau 11-18 0-0 27; Etienne Labrecque 11-15 2-2 26; Jerome
Turcotte 9-11 1-3 19; Jean-F Beaulieu 5-12 4-4 17; Francois-O Gagnon 2-7 2-2 6; Marc-Andre Cote 1-3 0-2 2; Yves-Andre Levasseur 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 39-68 9-13 97.

ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ........................ 16 22 24 13 - 75
Laval......................... 22 22 28 25 - 97

3-point goals--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 7-29 (Moustafa El Zanaty 3-8; Nicholas Nishikawa 2-3; Sean Anthony 1-6; Matthew Thornhill 1-6; Sebastien Gatti 0-1; Pawel Herra 0-5), Laval 10-21 (Xavier Baribeau 5-9; Jean-F Beaulieu 3-5; Etienne Labrecque 2-4; Yves-Andre Levasseur 0-1; Jerome Turcotte 0-2). Fouled out--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ-None, Laval-None.

Rebounds--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 30 (Michael White 9), Laval 44 (Marc-Andre Cote 11). Assists--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 18 (Sean Anthony 6), Laval 19 (Jean-F Beaulieu 8). Total fouls--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ 16, Laval 17. Technical fouls--ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ-None, Laval-None.