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Role players come up big as Hoyas cruise

WASHINGTON (AP)—Julian Vaughn and Jason Clark are making plenty of noisein their supporting roles for No. 16 Georgetown.

In his customary spotlight, Greg Monroe led the Hoyas with a season-high 19points and 11 rebounds, but Vaughn added a career-high 14 points and matched hiscareer best with eight rebounds and three blocks in Georgetown’s 83-62 win overMount St. Mary’s on Monday night.

Clark, after setting career highs for points in his previous two games,added 12 points and four steals. He was a key defensive weapon for the Hoyas(5-0), who built a 20-point cushion by opening the second half with an 11-2 run.

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“(Vaughn and Clark) are in their second year now,” Georgetown coach JohnThompson III said. “You see the growth, you see the development, you see theircomfort level is higher. Their teammates’ confidence in them and theirconfidence in themselves is better right now.”

Chris Wright scored a season-high 18 points for the Hoyas, who improved to21-5 against Mount St. Mary’s.

After the Mountaineers cut it to 55-44 with 9:30 left, Monroe scored sevenstraight points during a 17-5 Georgetown run to put the game away. The spurtstarted with a basket by Vaughn.

Jean Cajou scored 16 points and Tayvon Jackson added 11 for the Mountaineers(3-3), who turned the ball over five times in the first four-plus minutes of thesecond half. They struggled against the Hoyas’ size and tight perimeter defense.

“We played a very good team today,” Mountaineers coach Milan Brown said.“Their size was able to bother us sometimes on the open looks that we hadinside and they were still able to contest some of the shots that we had fromthe perimeter.”

Vaughn, a junior who transferred from Florida State before the 2008-09season, was the Hoyas’ best big man for much of the night. Thompson called him a“presence,” a phrase not often used during his first season with the team.

“(Last year) I put pressure on myself, but this year I definitely learnedto relax,” said Vaughn, who scored eight points in the second half. “I workedreally hard this summer and I think I’m just trying to make sure it pays off byrelaxing and playing hard.”

In a quickly played first half—only four combined fouls were called andone free throw was taken—the Hoyas outscored the Mountaineers 16-8 over thefinal 9:08 to lead 40-29.

Wright hit three from beyond the arc and paced the Hoyas with 11 pointswhile Monroe finished with nine points and seven rebounds. Cajou matchedWright’s point total, hitting all three of his 3-point attempts in the half, butthe Hoyas adjusted.

“For the second game in a row in the first half, we did not protect the3-point line,” Thompson said. “I think at the start of the second half ourguys did a very good job of that, covering for each other, closing out andmaking sure they didn’t get off shots.”

Georgetown concludes its three-game homestand Saturday against American,while Mount St. Mary’s continues a season-long seven-game road trip Thursday atRobert Morris.

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