COLIN WESTER
Leads Balanced Attack
With 19 Points
Leads Balanced Attack
With 19 Points
Balanced Attack Gives Boxers Win Over Missionaries
Summary:
Men's Basketball: Win : 81-64 | Stats
Colin Wester leads four Pacific players in double figures as the Boxers succeeded in slowly run-and-gun Whitman down for an 81-64 men's basketball victory
FOREST GROVE – Colin Wester’s (Fr., Sherwood, Ore.) 19 points led a balanced Pacific scoring attack as the Boxers won their third game in four tries Saturday, beating Whitman 81-64 in Northwest Conference men’s basketball action at the Pacific Athletic Center.
Wester connected on 7 of 17 from the field and four three-pointers as four Pacific players finished scoring in double figures. Carson Bartlett (So., St. Helens, Ore.) added 15 points while his brother, Ross Bartlett (Sr., St. Helens, Ore.), notched his seventh straight double-double and his 12th of the year with 13 points and 15 rebounds. LeMar Anglin (Jr., Chicago, Ill.) came off the bench to add a double-double of 14 points and 11 rebounds.
The Boxers (7-14, 3-9 NWC) shot just 43.4 percent from the field (25-53), but connected on 7 of 18 from three-point range and 28 of 36 from the free throw line. Pacific was also dominant on the boards, out-rebounding the Missionaries 55-36.
LuQuam Thompson led Whitman (10-11, 4-8 NWC) with 16 points while Brandon Shaw added 12 points. The Missionaries shot just 28 percent from the field (21-75), went 4 of 28 from long range and 18 of 28 from the charity stripe.
Pacific established the pace early against Whitman’s run-and-gun style of play, forcing the Missionaries into set plays and tough perimeter opportunities. The Boxers scored the first five points and led by six early, 8-2, off of an A.J. Gaulton (Sr., Pleasant Hill, Ore.) three-pointer. Whitman charged right back to score the next eight points to take a short-lived 10-8 lead at the 15:37 mark.
The Boxers quickly took the lead back, but the Missionaries stayed close over the next six minutes. The game was tied at 17-17 with 12:47 to go when Wester’s lay-in started a 16-2 over the next 10 minutes, culminating on a pair of Ross Bartlett free throws that put Pacific up 33-19. Phil Stanford’s (Fr., Seattle, Wash.) free throw with 1:37 left gave Pacific a 15-point lead before the Missionaries scored the final four points of the stanza to cut the advantage to 37-26 at the half.
Pacific used great defensive pressure to hold Whitman scoreless from the field over the first four minutes of the second half. That allowed Pacific to build their biggest lead of the game of 22 points, 51-29, on a Wester trey with 15:40 to go. The Missionaries managed to come back to within 16 points on Max Adcox’s lay-in with 13 minutes left, but the Boxers would not allow Whitman any closer the rest of the way. The Boxers surged to hit 59.1 percent from the field in the half.
The Boxers will play their final home game of the season on Friday, hosting Linfield in a 6 p.m. matchup. Whitman returns home to host Pacific Lutheran on Friday.
Posted by Blake Timm (timmbr@pacificu.edu) on Feb 6, 2010 at 9:47 PM
