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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Kennesaw State senior forward
Aaron Anderson (Tucson, Ariz. / Central Arizona College) concluded a standout three-year career in record-breaking fashion during a 67-49 loss at Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday.
The Owls’ forward scored eight points and collected a career-high 22 rebounds to become Kennesaw State’s all-time leading rebounder and establish a single-game rebounding mark. Anderson increased his career total to 743, breaking the previous standard of 734 set by Israel Brown (1998-93).
The 22 rebounds eclipsed the previous school mark of 18 accomplished three times, most recently by LaDaris Green who achieved the feat against SIUE on Jan. 12, 2010, and is the highest total by an Atlantic Sun Conference player since Thomas Sanders grabbed 22 for Gardner-Webb versus USC Upstate on Feb. 23, 2008.
Anderson, who leads the A-Sun Conference in rebounding and is the league’s active career leader, just missed out averaging a double-double (points-rebounds) for the season as he concluded his final collegiate campaign contributing 9.6 points and 9.0 rebounds a contest.
Saturday’s game also marked the final contest for senior forward
Markeith Cummings (Birmingham, Ala. / Beach HS), who scored nine points and collected a season-high 10 rebounds.
Kennesaw State’s all-time leading scorer with 2,048 points, Cummings finished his career fourth on the A-Sun Conference’s all-time points list. He ended his senior campaign averaging 16.5 points a game.
“I thought it was only fitting tonight that Aaron would set the single-game and career school record for rebounds,” head coach Lewis Preston said. “As those two men (Anderson and Cummings) move forward, I know it’s been a tough two years for them, but they’ve learned a lot of life lessons that you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and you have to keep getting back at it.”
Against Florida Gulf Coast (21-10, 13-5), the Owls (3-27, 2-16) were led by sophomore guard
Delbert Love (Cleveland, OH / St. Edward HS) who scored a game-high 18 points .
“I was proud of our group as a whole. We just have to cut down on silly turnovers and stop making the self-inflicted mistakes that have kind of plagued us throughout the course of the season,” Preston said. “
Kennesaw State is celebrating 30 years of intercollegiate athletics during the 2012-13 academic year.
