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Doug Edert came off the bench to score 13 points for the Peacocks, including making some big baskets late. Saint Peter’s built a 13-point lead early in the second half and never trailed, but Murray State still made it tense. Justice Hill hit a 3-pointer to get the Racers within 59-57 with 4 minutes, 7 seconds left. Edert followed with a 3-pointer and a layup, and the Peacocks closed it out at the free-throw line.

“For the most part, the biggest thing I took out of being in the bullpen is just being able to rise to the occasion or rise to the moment that you were called to be in,” he said. “In a starting routine, you start and you have time to work up to that moment. As a reliever, you’re thrown right into that moment. I think those big moments as a starter won’t come as such a shock to me now that I’ve had the chance to work out of the bullpen.”

Said King before Saturday’s road game against the Minnesota Wild: “We talked about it a few weeks ago, that (Hagel is) a big part of this organization and the type of character that we want and the type of player we want, so I was very shocked … when they called me upstairs to talk to me. I was like, ‘Oh, maybe it’s me getting traded or something.’ But when they said his name, I was shocked, I was very shocked.”

He also had a great sense of humor and was self-effacing about his disability. When we sat next to each other at Wrigley and something bizarre happened in the game, he’d joke, ‘Well, I’ve never see that before.’” Once Lynch asked White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen how he got to Wrigley Field that day. Guillen told him he got a ride from coach Joey Cora, whom Guillen said drove erratically.