It was demolition night in the Ohio Athletic Conference Wednesday. Three teams with lower winning percentages beat three teams with higher winning percentages as visiting Heidelberg stunned #24 ranked Baldwin Wallace at home, host Wilmington shocked Ohio Northern with a 17-point win, and Capital outlasted Muskingum in Bexley.

Only John Carroll and Marietta managed to avoid trouble.

By doing so, the Blue Streaks now stand alone in first place. 

John Carroll put halves together of 50 and 48 points to run past Mount Union, 98-66. The 32-point margin of victory was the largest in the history of the series for the Blue Streaks, surpassing a 96-66 win on January 18, 2006.

The Blue Streaks trailed early, 5-0, but made up the stagger quickly. Once JCU caught Mount Union at 5-5, the teams traded the lead three times over the next four-and-a-half minutes. When Tre'Maine Gray threw down a dunk for Mount Union at the 11:10 mark, the score was tied 16-16.

Over the next nine minutes, John Carroll went to work. A 32-10 run capped by a Sean Flannery three ball extended the Blue Streaks out to a 48-26 lead with 2;22 to play. JCU would take a 50-33 advantage into the intermission.

The closest Mount Union would get was on its opening possession of the second half. Tommy Stegner made a quick jumper to pull to within 15 points at 50-35, but John Carroll's answer was eight straight points to go up 58-36. 

The margin never got closer than 16 points the remainder of the game. After the 10:31 mark of the half, the JCU advantage never dipped below 20.

Five players reached double figures for John Carroll (15-3, 9-2 OAC), led by Antonio Vuyancih. Playing in his 99th game as a Blue Streak, the senior scored 13 points and garnered three steals. Ryan Berger (12), Matthew Csuhran (12), Jackson Sartain (11) and John Cirillo (10) also had ten or more.

JCU was 36-75 (.480) from the field, including 16-34 (.471) from three-point range. In sharp contrast, Mount Union, which fell to 9-9 overall and 5-6 in league play, was 26-70 (.371) from the floor and 6-32 (.188) from beyond the arc.

John Carroll reached 15 wins through 18 games for the fifth time in program history. The 1987-88 team (featuring Jim Berger, father of current Blue Streaks Jimmy Berger and Ryan Berger), the 1996-97 and the 2004-05 teams were also 15-3, while the 2015-16 squad was 18-0 through 18 games.

The Blue Streaks visit Muskingum (7-11, 5-6 OAC) on Saturday in New Concord, Ohio.