Scheduled Game: @Winnipeg*

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GAME RESULTS 1 2 T Trinity Western 42 49 91 « FINAL Winnipeg 34 53 87

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Men’s Basketball (Canada West)
Friday, November 24, 2006
TWU (91) Winnipeg (87)

TWU MEN’S BASKETBALL 5-4 AFTER WIN IN WINNIPEG
Schmidt’s double-double helps Spartans passed Wesmen

WINNIPEG – The Spartan men came out the victors 91-87 over the Wesmen in Winnipeg on Friday night.  Erfan Nasajpour’s 26 points, 11 assists, and eight steals were not enough to defeat a Trinity Western team that has now won five of their last seven.  Jon Schmidt (4th year, Rosedale, B.C.) had 11 assists of his own to go along with 16 points to help the Spartans record another in the win column.

The Wesmen also had a strong performance from Dan Shynkaryk who registered a double-double with 22 points on 10-14 shooting with 10 rebounds.  Last week’s Canada West Male Athlete of the Week, Brian Banman (4th year, Kelowna), contributed 19 and seven rebounds to help the Spartans.

Trinity Western University began the game forcing Winnipeg to turn the ball over 11 times in the half and played off that aggression to find a good pace for scoring the basketball.  The Spartans jumped to their biggest lead of the game with 5:21 left in the half after a three-pointer by Schmidt to make the lead 38-24.  Despite their cold shooting (41.7% from the field in the first half), the Wesmen managed to cut the TWU lead to eight by halftime.

Winnipeg battled back in the second, and showed a great improvement on shooting, registering a sizzling 65.7% from the field.  The Wesmen attained their first lead of the game (65-64) off a steal and a lay-up by Nasajpour with 9:58 left in the game.

The Wesmen lead would not last as the Spartans regained their six-point cushion and held off a sharp second-half performance from the home team.

The Spartans shot only 62% from the free-throw line, yet still managed to get 18 points from the stripe, a substantial amount when compared to the Wesmens’ seven made free-throws.

The Spartans, now 5 wins 4 losses, meet the University of Manitoba Bisons and will try to win their fourth straight tomorrow night to finish the road trip.

Game Notes: Points off turnovers were 36-6 for TWU...points in the paint were 46-34 in favor of Winnipeg...

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