Also in double figures for the Yellowjackets were Antoine
Hosley with 15 points and Emmanuel Johnson with 10
points.
Player of the Week Jeffrey Parker made 9-of-15, Ricardo
Maxwell converted on 5-of-9 from the arc and Joey
Schreiber cashed in on 5-of-10. Maxwell finished with 31
points and Schreiber had 25. Mac Johnson had a teamhigh 17 rebounds. … WWU scored16 consecutive points to
break a 44-44 tie on the way to a 73-50 upset of Western
Oregon in Thursday’s game.
Northwest Nazarene: Alex Birketoft (39 points), Erik
Kinney (31 points) and Kevin Rima (30 points) combined
for exactly 100 of NNU’s 167 points in wins over UAF and
UAA. Birketoft, who made all 10 of his foul shots, was 7of-14 from the three-point line and 11-of-20 overall. He
also had a team-high 17 rebounds … Kinney had a teamhigh 17 points in the Crusaders’ 67-56 ROOT SPORTS win
against the Nanooks, which clinched a GNAC tournament
berth for NNU, its first under the GNAC six-team, one-site
format. NNU was the fifth seed, splitting two games, in
the 2011 eight-team tournament which was played at host
sites.
GNAC Players of the Week
Week
Nov. 10-16
Nov. 17-23
Nov. 24-30
Dec. 1-7
Dec. 8-14
Dec. 15-21
Dec. 29-J. 4
Saint Martin’s: Tyler Idowu scored 39 points, shooting 75
percent (18-of-24) in SMU’s contests with Simon Fraser
and Western Washington. Idowu had a career-high 24
points making 12 of 17 field goals against the Vikings. Ryan
Rogers finished with 26 points and a team-high 18
rebounds. Riley Carel had team-highs for assists (14) and
steals (4).
Jan. 5-11
Jan. 12-18
Jan. 19-25
Jan. 26-F. 1
Seattle Pacific: Matt Borton had his third double-double
of the season, scoring 20 points and grabbing 10 rebounds
in the Falcons’ 81-59 home court win against MSU Billings
Saturday. Cory Hutsen also had 20 points. SPU, which
ranks second in Division II in rebounding, outboarded the
Falcons 45-25. SPU ranks fifth in field goal percentage at
51.6 and improved that mark slightly by making 31 of 58
(53.4).
Feb. 2-8
Feb. 9-15
Feb. 16-22
Player
Jeffrey Parker, Western Washington
Joseph Stroud, Central Washington
Ruben Silvas, Alaska
Julian Nichols, Western Oregon
Dom Williams, Central Washington
Mitch Penner, Seattle Pacific
Shawn Reid, Seattle Pacific
Ashton Edwards, Alaska
Brian McGill, Alaska Anchorage
Momir Gataric, MSU Billings
Andy Avgi, Western Oregon
Kevin Rima, Northwest Nazarene
Sango Niang, Simon Fraser
Jordan Wiley, Western Oregon
Andy Avgi, Western Oregon
Derrick Fain, Alaska Anchorage
Anye Turner, Western Washington
Cory Hutsen, Seattle Pacific
Jeffrey Parker, Western Washington
Players of the Week – Week By Week
Nov. 10-16 – Jeffrey Parker, Western Washington (F, 6-6,
So., Richmond, CA – Salesian) and Joseph Stroud, Central
Washington (F, 6-8, Jr., Las Vegas, NV – Sierra Visa/Pierce
College) ... Parker scored 43 points and also had 18
rebounds leading the Vikings to two wins in the 13th Chuck
Randall Classic. Parker made seven of 17 3-pointers and
shot 51.7 percent overall, cashing in on 15-of-29. He was
named the tournament’s MVP ... Stroud earned alltournament honors leading the Wildcats to two wins in
the Seattle Pacific Sodexo Tip-Off tournament. He came
off the bench to score 24 points, making nine of 10 shots.
He also led CWU in rebounds (11) and blocked shots (7).
His last basket with one second half came on a dunk to
break a 68-68 tie in Saturday’s 70-68 win over Academy of
Art.
Simon Fraser: Michael Harper, who averages nine points
per game, scored 34 points, making 13 of 17 shots
including 6-of-10 from the arc. Justin Cole had 33 points,
including 23 in a 103-87 win at Saint Martin’s. Sango
Niang had 27 points and 18 rebounds, including a 15-point,
12-assist double-double against the Saints. Niang’s assist
total was his fourth double-digit total of the season.
SMU’s point total against SMU was its 12th 100-point game
of the season.
Western Oregon: Julian Nichols scored 47 points, including
a career-high 34 – 24 in the second half - in a 93-91 win
against Simon Fraser Saturday as the Wolves clinched their
first GNAC regular-season title in the 14-year history of the
conference. Nichols, who made 18-of-33 shots, also had
11 assists, eight rebounds and eight steals. Both Nichols
and Jordan Wiley (28 points), made 5-of-11 three-pointers.
WOU played both of its games last week without Andy
Avgi and were outrebounded by eight a game (79-63). On
the year, it outrebounds its opponents by 4.1 per game to
rank third in the conference.
Western Washington:
The Vikings outshot their
opponents 47.7 (21-of-44) to 28.1 percent (9-of-32) in
their wins at Western Oregon and Saint Martin’s as GNAC
Nov. 17-23: Ruben Silvas, Alaska (G, 6-3, 175, Jr., Tucson,
AZ) had 33 points, shooting 62.5 percent (15-of-24) as the
Nanooks made their 2014-15 season debut in the GCI
Alaska Invitational. The JC transfer from Arizona also had
16 rebounds, two assists and a steal and wasn’t charged
with a turnover in earning all-tourn