The Anoka-Ramsey Community College Men's Basketball team, and the St. Cloud Tech Cyclones, put on an impressive offensive display that the Golden Rams survived 109-98 on Wednesday evening in Coon Rapids.
Both teams came out firing right from the tip as the first five made field goals were three-pointers.
The threes kept coming throughout the half and wouldn't let up until halftime.
A Kevin Schramm layup gave Anoka-Ramsey a 17-12 lead, but a Cyclone three cut the lead to 17-15.
St. Cloud Tech would take a 27-25 lead, but Malik Williams would connect from long range to give the Golden Rams the lead again.
Three straight three-pointers from St. Cloud Tech would give them the lead once again, 36-29, but a three from Edvonte Copeland followed by a Mamadou Ngom layup pulled Anoka-Ramsey to within 36-34.
Two more Cyclone threes would follow with Ngom hitting a jumper and getting a fast break dunk as St. Cloud Tech led 42-38.
But St. Cloud Tech would connect on three more threes before the end of the half, with the Golden Rams also knocking down two and the Cylcones would lead 54-52 at halftime.
The teams combined to make 19 of 34 three-pointers in the first half, with St. Cloud connecting on 11 of 16 and Anoka-Ramsey hitting 8 of 18.
Both teams cooled from beyond the arc in the second half and neither team would lead by more than four points through the first 15 minutes of the half.
Holding a three-point lead, Ngom would connect on a three-pointer to give Anoka-Ramsey a 90-84 lead with 3:36 to play and would spark a 16-5 run to build a 103-89 lead after a Kevin Schramm dunk with 1:20 left and the Golden Rams would keep St. Cloud Tech at bay from the free throw line with Copeland making 8 of 9 free throws in the last two minutes.
Anoka-Ramsey finished the night shooting 57.4 percent, 64.5 percent in the second half, while making 12 of 25 threes and 19 of 24 free throws.
St. Cloud Tech finished at 52.9 percent.
Copeland finished with 26 points.
Ngom scored 20 points to go with seven rebounds, six assists, and three steals.
Schramm finished with 20 points and eight rebounds.
Williams scored 12 points making 3 of 9 from three.
The Golden Rams improve to 21-3 overall, 9-2 in the MCAC Southern Division and will travel to MN West on Saturday, February 18 for a 3:00pm game time.