team-high 14 assists and six steals in leading the Wolves to
three road West Region victories, including a 67-52 win at
2014 playoff qualifier Dixie State. Nichols made 15 of 31
field goal attempts and also converted on 19 of 20 foul
shots. Twenty-six of his points came in Saturday’s 83-73
win at the Academy of Art.
Northwest Nazarene: Erik Kinney led the Crusaders with
44 points and 10 assists and also had 21 rebounds in three
contests. He had 19 points and five rebounds in a threepoint loss to College of Idaho. In a 14-point loss to Texas
A&M-Kingsville, Kinney had 12 points and team highs for
rebounds (8) and assists (6). He then finished off the week
with 13 points and eight rebounds against eighth-ranked
Tarleton State in a 20-point defeat.
Kevin Rima
contributed 22 points and a team-high 24 rebounds. He
also blocked three shots increasing his career total to 75.
2014-15 ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMS: Seattle Pacific (Nov.
14-15) – Cory Hutson, SPU; Mitch Penner, SPU; Jordan
Russell, CWU; Joseph Stroud, CWU. Dominican (Nov. 1415) – Antoine Hosley, MSUB. Sonoma State (Nov. 14-15) –
Brian McGill, UAA. Western Washington (Nov. 14-15) –
Jeffrey Parker, WWU (MVP); Anye Turner, WWU; Joey
Schreiber, WWU; Erik Kinney, NNU. Alaska (Nov. 20-22) –
Ruben Silvas, Alaska. WOU (Nov. 21-22) – Trey Ingram,
SMU; Lewis Thomas, WOU. Great Alaska Shootout (Nov.
26-29) – Travis Thompson, UAA*. (*UAA played Shootout
games as exhibitions).
Saint Martin’s: Brent Counts led the Saints with 24 points
and 13 rebounds in wins over George Fox and Concordia
(Ore.). Counts made 11 of 19 shots and nine of his 13
rebounds came off the offensive glass. Tyler Idowu and
Ryan Rogers each had 23 points.
Seattle Pacific: Cory Hutsen scored 41 points on 19-of-30
shooting (.633) in wins over Northwest Indian and Hawaii
Hilo. The Falcons were also led by Mitch Penner with 33
points. SPU dominated the backboards in the two
victories (84-47) and had nine fewer turnovers (27-36)
than its opponents. Hutsen and Riley Stockton each had
11 rebounds. Three players – Penner, Matt Borton and
Garrett Swanson – had 10 each. SPU also shot .627 (74-of118).
Team Notes
Alaska: Ashton Edwards scored a team-best 38 points and
also had a team-high six assists as the Nanooks split two
contests in the Notre Dame de Namur Invitational.
Edwards shot .522 from the field (12-of-23), .533 from the
arc (8-of-15) and 1.000 from the foul line (6-of-6). Adam
Griffin added 21 points. Isaac Ladines had a team-best 11
rebounds.
Simon Fraser: The Clan continued to put triple digits on
the scoreboard scoring 112 or more points for the sixth
time in seven contests in splitting two West Region
contests in the Notre Dame de Namur Invitational. Sango
Niang scored 44 points and also had 14 assists and seven
steals in a 123-121 win versus Holy Names and a 123-116
loss to the host Argonauts. Roderick Evans-Taylor and
Justin Cole had 38 and 36 points, respectively.
SFU
outscored its two opponents 93-9 from the arc, but Holy
Names and NDDM combined to shoot 66.2 percent from
the floor.
Alaska Anchorage: Travis Thompson scored 62 points to
earn all-tournament honors and lead the Seawolves to a 1th
2 record in the 37 annual Great Alaska Shootout.
Thompson made 19 of 33 shots, including 14 of 24 threepoint shots. He also had a team-high six steals. UAA
played the games as exhibitions and thus Thompson’s
career total for points remains at 1,284. He, however, does
rank fourth all-time among UAA players in Great Alaska
Shootout career scoring with 157. UAA held its three D-1
opponents to a .182 shooting percentage from the arc (10of -55) and to a .388 percentage overall).
Western Oregon: Julian Nichols (See Player of the Week
notes) and Andy Avgi combined to score 96 points in road
victories at Dixie State, Cal State Monterey Bay and
Academy of Art earning the Wolves GNAC Team of the
Week honors. Nichols netted 51 points and Avgi had 45
points on 17-of-30 shooting. Avgi also had 15 rebounds
and seven steals. Lewis Thomas averaged nearly a doubledouble (9.7 points, 10.3 rebounds) and also blocked seven
shots.
Central Washington: The Wildcats were perfect from the
foul line (13-of-13) and had just 12 turnovers in a 13-point
home win over Walla Walla. Three players – Gary Jacobs,
Joseph Stroud and Dom Williams – each made four and
Terry Dawn made one. Jacobs, Stroud and Dawn scored
19, 18 and 17 points, respectively.
Montana State Billings: Marc Matthews scored 32 points
and shot .500 from the floor (7-of-14) as the Yellowjackets
split two games, defeating Black Hills State 79-61 Saturday
for their first win of the season. Matthews had 23 points
in that game, including a game-high five three-pointers
(half of MSUB’s season-high 10 treys). Matthews was also
4-for-4 from the foul line. Antoine Hosley had a team-high
43 points in his two contests, making 6-of-13 treys.
Western Washington: Joey Schreiber scored 41 points in
the Vikings’ 33 and 41-point victories over Multnomah and
Douglas, shooting .667 percent (16-of-24) from the floor
and .643 from the arc (9-of-14). WWU was also led by
Jeffrey Parker (37 points, 19 rebounds) and Ricardo
Maxwell (24 points, 15 assists, 14 rebounds) ... Anye
Turner had seven blocks increasing his career total to 105
th
and becoming the 13 player in GNAC history to reject 100
shots. He currently ranks 11th.
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