Nov. 12, 1996

Notre Dame Runs Past Australian Juniors

Senior guard Admore White keyed a big run with consecutive 3-pointers and Notre Dame erupted in the second half to take a 105-75 victory over the Australian Junior National team in front of 9,042 at Joyce Center.

White hit back-to-back 3-pointers from the right side early in the second half to kick off a 19-6 run that left the Irish with a 70-48 lead at the 11:16 mark of the second half.

Pat Garrity led Notre Dame with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman David Lazarian added 15 points and seven rebounds. White, who is taking over for departed point guard Doug Gottlieb, finished with 13 points, five assists and four rebounds.

Notre Dame shot 54 percent from the floor in the second half and made 18-of-20 free throws.

The Australian Junior National Team got 25 points from Cameron Dickenson and 10 points apiece from Matt Neilson and Gavin VanDerPutten, a former UC Santa Barbara player.

After missing all nine 3-point attempts in the first half, Antoni Wyche got the Irish going with a 3-pointer just 1:08 into the half. Shortly after that, White made three during a 2:15 stretch.

The Irish were 8-for-11 (73 percent) from beyond the arc in the second half.

Notre Dame opens the regular season Nov. 24 against Monmouth.

AIA 3-pt FG-A FG-M FT-A REB PF TP A TO BK ST MINMatt Neilson 4-7 0-0 2-3 1-2-3 1 10 3 3 0 2 29Kane Oakley 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-0-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4Gavin VanDerPutten 3-7 0-0 2-2 0-5-5 4 8 2 3 2 1 27Brad Williams 4-10 0-1 2-2 0-2-2 1 10 3 1 0 2 22Aaron Trahair 2-5 0-1 2-2 0-1-1 0 6 4 3 0 3 30Brendan Mann 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-2-2 2 3 0 3 0 1 18Cameron Dickenson 7-18 4-9 7-9 2-1-3 5 25 1 5 0 3 24Glen Saville 2-3 1-1 1-1 0-2-2 4 6 2 4 0 0 20Phil Doherty 2-7 1-1 2-2 0-0-0 2 7 1 1 0 0 25Erik Van As 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1-1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1TEAM 0-2-2 TOTALS 25-61 7-15 18-21 4-18-22 22 75 16 23 2 12 200FG%: 1st Half 12-29, .414; 2nd Half 13-32, .406; Game .410; 3-PT%: 1stHalf 2-3, .667; 2nd Half 5-12, .417; Game .467; FT%: 1st Half 8-9, .889;2nd Half 10-12, .833; Game .857; Deadball: 2.

Notre Dame 3-pt FG-A FG-M FT-A REB PF TP A TO BK ST MINDerek Manner 3-3 0-0 3-4 3-2-5 2 9 2 4 0 2 21Pat Garrity 9-20 1-3 4-8 5-5-10 1 23 3 2 1 1 29Marcus Young 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-4-4 1 0 0 0 1 0 18Antoni Wyche 3-7 1-4 1-1 0-1-1 3 8 4 2 0 3 20Admore White 5-11 3-4 0-0 1-3-4 2 13 5 4 0 0 28David Lalazarian 5-9 0-2 5-6 3-4-7 1 15 1 2 0 0 19Keith Friel 1-3 1-3 3-5 0-0-0 1 6 0 2 0 0 8Paul Rainey 2-4 0-0 0-0 1-0-1 1 4 1 0 0 0 3 Pete Miller 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-1-1 1 3 0 0 0 0 8Dennis Carroll 2-4 1-1 2-2 1-0-1 2 7 2 0 0 1 4Jimmy Dillon 0-2 0-1 0-0 0-2-2 0 0 2 1 0 2 12Skylard Owens 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5Adin McCann 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3Nick Wills 1-1 0-0 2-2 1-0-1 0 4 1 1 0 0 5Phil Hickey 4-5 0-0 5-6 4-6-10 2 13 2 3 0 1 17 TEAM 2-1-3 TOTALS 36-74 8-20 25-34 23-31-54 17 105 23 22 2 10 200 FG%: 1st Half 17-39, .436 ; 2nd Half 19-35, .543; Game .486; 3-PT%: 1stHalf 0-9, .000; 2nd Half 8-11, .727; Game .400; FT%: 1st Half 7-14,.500; 2nd Half 18-20, .900; Game .735; Deadball: 8,1.SCORE BY PERIODS 1 2 FAthletes in Action 39 41 75Notre Dame 41 64 105OFFICIALS: Steve Welmer, Rick Hartzell, Jim HeyneyTECHNICALS: VanDerPutten (AUS.), Coach (AUS.)