Scheduled Game: VICTORIA*

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Game Recap

Men's Basketball (Canada West)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
TWU Spartans (87) vs. the No. 8 University of Victoria Vikes (83)

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SPARTANS WIN IN THREE POINT SHOOTOUT

LANGLEY, British Columbia - The Trinity Western University Spartans extended their Canada West winning streak to seven games with an 87-83 win over No. 8 University of Victoria Vikes Saturday night at TWU's Langley, B.C. campus. The win moves TWU into a tie with Victoria for second place in the Canada West Pacific Division at 10-5 with TWU holding the tie-breaker having won the season series 2-1.

The two teams combined for 28 made three point shots, with Victoria hitting 16, which ties for the most made by a team in Canada West play this season. Lethbridge hit 16 against Regina on Nov. 7 and Manitoba hit 16 against Winnipeg Nov. 13.

The Vikes took an early lead to start the contest, but by the end of the quarter the Spartans led 25-21. Trinity Western continued their strong play through the second quarter and led by 10 points, 47-37 at the half.

Victoria had a stronger third quarter and outscored TWU 21-19 to make it an eight point game, 66-58, heading into the final 10 minutes.

The visitors from Vancouver Island stormed out of the gates to start the fourth quarter. The Vikes outscored the Spartans 13-5 to tie the game at 71-71 with 7:43 remaining in the game. With just over five minutes remaining and TWU leading by one 75-74 the Spartans Jacob Doerksen (Abbotsford, B.C.) hit a lay-up and Louis Hurd (Spokane, Wash.) hit a three point basket to give TWU a six point lead, 80-74 with just over three minutes remaining. The Vikes climbed back into the game with back-to-back three's to make it a tow point game, 82-80 with just under two and a half minutes remaining. Victoria's Ryan MacKinnon (Comox, B.C.) had a chance to tie the game with two foul shots at the two minute mark, but he only made one and TWU retained an 82-81 lead.

Doerksen made it a two point game, 83-81, when he hit one of two foul shots with 1:30 remaining. The big forward followed it with a key defensive steal to give TWU the ball back with 50 seconds remaining. The Spartans Hurd sealed the game when he hit a runner down the right side just before the shot clock expired to put TWU up 85-81. Mitch Gudgeon (Victoria) hit a jumper to make it a two point game, 85-83 with 16 second remaining. Victoria fouled the Spartans Brian Banman (Kelowna, B.C.) on the inbounds play to get the ball back. Banman calmly hit both to give the Spartans the hard fought 87-83 victory.

Banman with 26 points and Hurd with 24 points led the Spartans, while Gudgeon and Cyril Indome (Winnipeg) led the Vikes with 22 points each. The Spartans have now won eight of nine after starting the season 0-3. The loss ends Victoria's three game winning streak.

Next up for the Spartans is the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack. Game times at TWU on Fri. Jan. 16 is at 8 p.m. and on Sat. Jan. 17 is at 7 pm.

Game Notes: TWU shot 48 percent (31-64) from the field, 61 percent (13-21) from the foul line and 46 percent (12-26) from the three point line, while Victoria shot 43.9 percent (29-66), 69 percent (9-13) and 47 percent (16-34) respectively...TWU's seven game winning streak is two shy of the school record of nine, which was set in the 2005-06 season between Nov. 26, 05 and Jan. 26, 06...The Spartans outrebounded the Vikes 43-32...each team committed 13 turnovers...

-TW-

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