Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Lipscomb Bisons and Belmont Bruins were playing for the 125th time, but the pregame buzz was this time around the game was going to be different.

The Bisons prevailed 64-53 in front of a record crowd of 5,414 fans Monday night at Allen Arena. With the win the Bisons move to 5-1 in the Atlantic Sun Conference. ETSU and Campbell are 4-1 in the conference.

It was the fourth win in a row for the Bisons.

Overall, the Bisons are 8-7. Belmont fell to 4-2 in the A-Sun, 9-7 overall.

It certainly lived up to that billing. As the two teams celebrated the 20th anniversary of when the game between the two rivals was first dubbed the “Battle of the Boulevard” the game proved to be more of a defensive game than an offensive one.