MONTREAL -- Calvin Epistola of Toronto scored 16 points and his Ottawa Gee-Gees deployed a second-quarter blitz en route to a 79-61 victory over McGill on Day 2 of the Olga Hyrcak Classic men's basketball tournament, held Saturday at the Centre Sportif de l'UQAM.

The result snapped McGill's win streak at five. Ottawa, which also defeated McGill 93-62 earlier in the semester, improved their stellar record to 18-4 on the season overall, while McGill dropped to 9-10, including an 8-5 mark versus Canadian opponents.

McGill led 23-20 after the opening quarter but Ottawa responded with a 30-11 outburst in the second stanza to take a commanding 50-34 halftime lead. McGill won the third quarter 15-14 and the Gee-Gees prevailed 15-12 in the final frame.

Ottawa, which had a 45-31 edge in rebounding, featured a spread offence with three players in double digits and three others scoring nine points apiece.

Quarry Whyne led McGill's offence with 13 points and nine rebounds, while teammate JJ Hamel-Carey added 10 points and Sam Jenkins had eight, while Jamal Mayali and Antoney Bell added seven apiece.

Ottawa shot 42.5 per cent from the floor (31/73), went 9-for-30 from three-point range and dropped eight of 10 free-throws. McGill connected on only 29 per cent (20/69), made 5-of-25 from downtown and drained 16 of 19 freebies.

McGill (1-1) will play Guelph (1-1) in the consolation round on Sunday at 2 p.m. (NOTE: This game was initially scheduled for 4 p.m.)

BOXSCORE

OLGA HYRCAK CLASSIC TOURNAMENT (@ UQAM)
(all game streamed live with no audio)

Fri., Dec. 27
Ottawa 77, Bishop's 73 (OT)
McGill 78, Regina 60
UQAM 91, Guelph 87

Sat., Dec. 28
Ottawa 93, McGill 62
Guelph 72, Bishop's 65
UQAM 99, Regina 83

Sun., Dec. 29
12 noon Regina vs Bishop's
2 pm  Guelph vs McGill
4 pm  Ottawa vs UQAM