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By Earl Zukerman

QUEBEC CITY – Montreal native Moustafa El Zanaty became the third player in school history to reach the 700-point plateau but he was outshone by Laval’s Xavier Baribeau and Etienne Labrecque, who netted 27 and 26 points, respectively, as Laval continued their dominance over the visiting McGill Redmen with a 97-75 victory in men’s hoops action at Quebec City, Saturday.

El Zanaty scored 23 points to lead the Redmen. The 6-foot-4 guard now has 706 points on the season in 30 games overall. The only Redmen who had better offensive outputs in a season were Nasko Golomeev (900 points in 24 games, 1968-69) and Pierre Brodeur (727 points in 25 games, 1969-70).

El Zanaty also has exactly 2,000 points in 136 collegiate career, including 1,196 with the Redmen and the remainder with a number of NCAA schools. He currently has a McGill single record of 81 three-pointers, nine more than teammate Matt Thornhill.

The Rouge et Or, which swept their four-game series over McGill, remained tied with for second place with UQAM. Each team sports identical 8-6 records.

The fourth-place Redmen dropped to 5-9 and are tied with Bishop’s, who finished their schedule at 5-11. McGill needs to split their upcoming series with Concordia (Feb. 20-21) in order to assure themselves a playoff berth in the topsy-turvy Quebec conference.

Newspaper Box Score

(Fev14,09 20h00 at Universite Laval)

LAVAL 97, MCGILL 75

MCGILL
Moustafa El Zanaty 9-26 2-2 23; Michael White 8-14 1-2 17; Sean Anthony 5-14 2-3 13; Nicholas Nishikawa 3-6 1-2 9; Matthew Thornhill 3-12 0-0 7; Pawel Herra 1-9 2-2 4; Jeff Cumming 1-1 0-0 2; Erik Galas 0-0 0-0 0; Sebastien Gatti 0-1 0-0 0; Greg Gause 0-0 0-0 0; Michael Flannery 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-83 8-11 75.

LAVAL
Xavier Baribeau 11-18 0-0 27; Etienne Labrecque 11-15 2-2 26; Jerome
Turcotte 9-11 1-3 19; Jean-F Beaulieu 5-12 4-4 17; Francois-O Gagnon 2-7 2-2 6; Marc-Andre Cote 1-3 0-2 2; Yves-Andre Levasseur 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 39-68 9-13 97.

McGill........................ 16 22 24 13 - 75
Laval......................... 22 22 28 25 - 97

3-point goals--McGill 7-29 (Moustafa El Zanaty 3-8; Nicholas Nishikawa 2-3; Sean Anthony 1-6; Matthew Thornhill 1-6; Sebastien Gatti 0-1; Pawel Herra 0-5), Laval 10-21 (Xavier Baribeau 5-9; Jean-F Beaulieu 3-5; Etienne Labrecque 2-4; Yves-Andre Levasseur 0-1; Jerome Turcotte 0-2). Fouled out--McGill-None, Laval-None.

Rebounds--McGill 30 (Michael White 9), Laval 44 (Marc-Andre Cote 11). Assists--McGill 18 (Sean Anthony 6), Laval 19 (Jean-F Beaulieu 8). Total fouls--McGill 16, Laval 17. Technical fouls--McGill-None, Laval-None.