Five players scored in double figures, and redshirt freshman point guard
Jordan Edwards had his best collegiate game to date, as the Ashland University men's basketball team opened the home portion of the 2025-26 schedule with an 89-69 win over Salem on Wednesday (Nov. 19) at the Sherrill Hudson Court at Kates Gymnasium.
Both the Eagles and Tigers stand at 2-1.
Edwards, in just his third game coming back from missing a season-and-a-half due to injury, ended with career-highs of 14 points, 12 assists and four steals, to go with a career-high-tying seven rebounds.
Senior forward
Maceo Williams led all scorers with 22 points in becoming just the 15
th player in program history to go for more than 1,400 as an Eagle (1,419).
Also going for 10 or more points were redshirt freshman guard
Max Dawson, who scored a career-high 17, and junior wing
Cooper Davis and sophomore forward
Jason Moore (10 each).
Back-to-back 3-point field goals by junior wing
Destin Logan and Davis got the Eagles going quickly, but halfway through the first half, it was a tight contest at 22-19 in favor of AU.
A late-half 8-0 run put the Eagles ahead by a 40-29 count to force a Salem timeout, and by the break, Ashland's advantage was 48-39. Williams had 15 points going into the locker room.
THE REST OF THE WINNING STORY
- Ashland shot 57.4 percent from the field, including 64.3 percent in the first half. AU dished out 23 assists on 35 made field goals.
- The Eagles kept Salem to 43.1-percent shooting, 33.3 percent in the second half, and 2-of-16 from beyond the arc.
NEXT UP
Back on the road in Johnstown, Pa., to play Indiana, Pa. (2-0) at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday (Nov. 22).
