Scheduled Game: BRANDON*

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GAME RESULTS 1 2 T Brandon Bobcats 42 34 76 « FINAL TWU Spartans Mens 20 43 63

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Game Recap

Men's Basketball (League)
Saturday, January 12, 2002
TWU Spartans (63) vs the Brandon University Bobcats (76)

Hole Too Deep For Spartans

Langley, British Columbia - The Trinity Western University men's basketball built themselves a huge 32-point hole Saturday night against the Brandon University Bobcats. A hole that they almost crawled out of before dropping a 76-63 decision to the visiting Bobcats.

Down 62-30 with 13:30 remaining the Spartans could have easily folded up their tents and gone home. But these Spartans have more character then that. Just when you thought the game was over TWU went on a spectacular 26 to 4 run to pull within 10 points, 66-56 with 3:48 remaining.

"I'm proud that we hung in there and stuck too it," said TWU head coach Stan Peters. "We could have easily bailed out of this game."

TWU continued to push down the stretch, but their shots stopped falling. The Bobcats found their rhythm again and were able to convert their Free throw attempts down the stretch to earn the 13-point victory.

The Spartans fell behind early, just 6 minutes in TWU found themselves down 8, 14-6. But the Spartans responded and 2 minutes later had their own 1-point lead, 17-16. That's when the Bobcats went nuts. They blew past the Spartans on a 21-0 run to take a 20-point lead, 37-17, and an eventual 42-20 lead at the half.

The second half saw more of what happened in the first half... Bobcat scoring. Six and a half minutes into the second half Brandon had built their lead to a game high 32 points.

The Spartans were led by Brian Redekop (2nd yr, forward, Abbotsford, BC) 27 points, 6 rebounds and Ryan Jobs (4th yr, forward, North Vancouver, BC) 16 points, 7 rebounds. Dido Bunema led the Bobcats with 20 points and 7 rebounds. "Jobs had the best game he has played for us this year," said Peters.

Next up for the Spartans is the Simon Fraser University Clan. Game time on Friday, January 18 is set for 8:15 PM on Burnaby Mountain.

Game Notes:
All of Jobs' 16 points were scored in 12 minutes of play in the second half...The Spartans Brian Redekop "lost" his uniform before tonight's game and responded with a 27 point performance... After averaging 16 points/game in TWU's first 5 games, Redekop has been in a bit of a slump. Over the past 4 weeks he had failed to hit double digits in 8 of 9 games... let's hope the jersey is never found...

-TW-

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