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St. Joe's Demery sidelined with injured foot

11/14/2016, 5:15pm EST
By Josh Verlin

Saint Joseph's wing James Demery (above) will miss "a few weeks" with a stress fracture in his left foot. (Photo: Mark Jordan/CoBL)

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Saint Joseph's junior wing James Demery suffered a stress fracture in the fourth metatarsal of his left foot on Friday night against Toledo and will miss "a few weeks," the program announced on Monday evening.

Demery, a 6-foot-6, 185-pound wing, was expected to be a full-time starter for the Hawks this season after serving as their sixth man a year ago. Against the Rockets, he scored 11 points in 32 minutes of action, grabbing eight rebounds with a block and a steal .

His absence means head coach Phil Martelli will have to learn more heavily on sophomore wing Chris Clover and freshman Nick Robinson, both of whom came off the bench in the season-opening win Friday night.

Clover, a 6-4 wing guard out of St. Joe's Prep, averaged 0.5 ppg in 21 games as a freshman, and went scoreless in nine minutes against Toledo. Robinson, a 6-6 wing guard, had a solid collegiate debut with seven points and three rebounds in 17 minutes of action.

Demery's injury also puts more of a scoring onus on the starting backcourt of Shavar Newkirk and Lamarr Kimble, who scored a combined 44 points against the Rockets.

Saint Joseph's is back in action tonight with a home game against Columbia, with a three-game swing at the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands form Nov. 18-21; looming after that are Big 5 games against Temple (Nov. 30) and Villanova (Dec. 3).

CoBL will have more on this story as it develops

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