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MBKvRut-New Lippi
57
Whitman WCMBK 8-4, 2-1 NWC
65
Winner Whitworth WHTW-M 10-2, 3-0 NWC
Whitman WCMBK
8-4, 2-1 NWC
57
Final
65
Whitworth WHTW-M
10-2, 3-0 NWC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Whitman WCMBK 30 27 57
Whitworth WHTW-M 30 35 65

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Gregg Petcoff

Pirates topple Missionaries

Spokane, Wash. — The inside-outside combination of forward Christian Jurlina and guard Kenny Love proved to be a difference maker for five-time defending Northwest Conference men's basketball champion Whitworth on Tuesday night.

Jurlina scored a game-high 18 points and Love contributed 16 as the Pirates used a 13-1 run late in the second half as a springboard for a 65-57 victory over Whitman at the Whitworth Fieldhouse.

The Pirates raised their NWC record to 3-0 and overall mark to 10-2 after registering their ninth straight win.
Whitman, which got 17 points from Evan Martin and 13 more from Rolaun Dunham, had a four-game winning streak come to an end and is now 2-1 and 8-4.
"We missed a great opportunity," Whitman coach Eric Bridgeland said. "Evan and Rolaun kept us in the game when no one else could knock down a shot."
The teams went to the halftime break tied at 30-30 after a first half in which neither side held more than a three-point edge, eight ties were forged and 11 lead changes were realized.

The pattern was broken with 6:51 remaining in the game when Dunham tallied a layup that put the Missionaries up by four, 52-48.

But the Pirates' surge resulted in a 61-53 lead following a pair of Love free throws with 3:10 left.

Martin tossed in a pair of freebies with 1:54 to go to cut the deficit to six, 61-55.

Love made two charity tosses at the 1:09 mark to make it 63-55.

Martin accounted for the final Missionary points of the game with a layup with 32 seconds on the clock.

Love put up the contest's last points on a couple of free throws just four seconds from the final buzzer.

Poor shooting plagued the Missionaries throughout the night. Whitman shot 30 percent from the floor including a woeful 2-of-21 from three-point territory and made only 13 of 26 attempts from the charity stripe.
"At the end of the day, we've got to take advantage of our opportunities at the free throw line," Bridgeland said. "13 of 26 isn't going to get you many wins on the road against a defending conference champion."
Whitman's next game is a home affair on Saturday against conference foe Linfield at 6 p.m.
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