Scheduled Game: @Victoria*

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GAME RESULTS 1 2 T Trinity Western - Men 39 31 70 UVic - Men 49 41 90 « FINAL

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Game Recap

Men's Basketball (conference)
Saturday, February 5, 05
TWU Spartans (70) at the University of Victoria Vikes (90)

It's Over...

Victoria, British Columbia - The TWU men's basketball team's dream of a postseason berth came to a crashing halt Saturday night in Victoria. The Spartans dropped their second game of the weekend series with the Vikes 90-70, and with the loss have been mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. The Spartans now trail the third place Simon Fraser Clan, who hold the tiebreak, by four points with only two games remaining in the regular season.

The Spartans came into the game fighting for their playoff lives, while Victoria was looking for the victory in order to clinch first place in the Pacific Division.

The story of the first half was definitely shooting - hot, hot shooting as Trinity Western went eighteen for twenty-eight for sixty-five per cent and the Vikes twenty for thirty-one for sixty-five percent.

The two squads matched each other for the first ten minutes with Victoria holding a slim four point lead, 24-20. But the next ten minutes belonged to the Vikes as the home team out-paced the Spartans 25-19 to take a 49-39 lead into the break.

In the second half it was coast-to-coast action as the teams ran the floor at a torrid pace. The Vikes were able to capitalize and increase their margin as the Trinity Western shooting went ice-cold, hitting just one of their first seven shots.

With 15 minutes remaining the Spartans found themselves trailing by 18 points, 70-52. Despite their efforts down the stretch they were unable to gain any ground on the Vikes, as Victoria took the contest 90-70.

The win improves the Vikes to 12-6 while the loss drops the Spartans to 6-12. The win also gives Victoria the weekend sweep of TWU. The Spartans had won the two earlier contests between the two teams 82-75 and 79-75.

Adam Friesen (4th yr, Abbotsford, BC) with 19 points and Logan Kitteringham with 18 points and 8 rebounds led the Spartans, while Steve Moore with 16 points, Shaun Doherty with 12 points and 4 assists, Brandon Ellis with 12 points, and Mitch Gudgeon with 12 points led the Vikes.

The Spartans now return home to finish out the season against the University of Saskatchewan on Friday, February 11 and the University of Alberta on Saturday, February 12. Both games are scheduled to tip-off at 8pm. The weekend will mark the final games for TWU's Logan Kitteringham (Langley, BC) and Steve Janzen (Burnaby, BC).

Game notes: Victoria shot 62% and had 27 rebounds, while TWU shot 52% and had 21 rebounds...Victoria went 14-23 from the foul line, while TWU went 5-7....On the weekend the Vikes held the edge from the foul line. Victoria went 25-40 to TWU's 8-14....Prior to tonight's contest TWU had averaged 20 foul shots (15-20) per game, while Victoria had averaged 22 (16-22) per game...

-TW-

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