Minnesota Duluth 91 Wayne State 70
Minnesota Duluth sank 15 3-pointers and shot 57 percent for the game (35-61) as the Bulldogs cruised to a 91-70 Northern Sun Conference men's basketball victory over Wayne State College Saturday evening at Romano Gymnasium in Duluth, Minnesota. UMD is now 18-6 and 13-5 in the league while WSC falls to 10-17 and 7-11 in the NSIC.
The host Bulldogs took a 12-2 lead less than four minutes into the contest and never looked back.
WSC trimmed the UMD lead to 16-8 on a
Nick Ferrarini layup with 14:22 to play in the half, but the Bulldogs scored the next five points to push the lead back to double digits and stayed that way the rest of the game.
UMD built a 54-29 lead at halftime thanks to 63 percent shooting (21-33) that included 10-17 behind the arc.
The second half saw Wayne State shoot 56 percent from the field, making 18 of 32 shots, but the Bulldogs lead was too much for the Wildcats and UMD closed the game shooting 14-28 in the second half and finished with the 91-70 win.
Al'Tavius Jackson scored 16 points for Wayne State followed by
Nate Mohr with 14.
Henry Penner scored 12 with Ben Dentlinger adding 10. Sophomore center
Jordan Janssen saw his streak of 35 consecutive games in double figures come to an end as he was held to eight points while grabbing 11 rebounds.
Wayne State shot 29 of 61 for the game, including 7 of 18 behind the arc. The 'Cats were 5-7 at the line.
Brandon Myer scored 21 points for Minnesota Duluth. Drew Blair added 18 points with Logan Rohrscheib and Alex Illikainen also hitting double figures with 17 and 15 points respectively.
The Bulldogs ended the game making 35 of 61 shots for 57.4 percent, including 15 for 29 (51.7%) behind the arc. UMD was 6-6 at the line.
Minnesota Duluth held a slight 31-29 edge in rebounding over the Wildcats despite 11 boards from Janssen.
Wayne State will be at home next weekend, playing Concordia-St. Paul Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Minnesota State Saturday in a 5:30 p.m. contest.
