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Osborne
89
Winner Whitman College WC 7-1
78
College of Wooster WOO 7-2
Winner
Whitman College WC
7-1
89
Final
78
College of Wooster WOO
7-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Whitman College WC 47 42 89
College of Wooster WOO 36 42 78

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

No. 4 Men's Basketball Earns Road Win At No. 14 Wooster

MESA, Ariz. - The No. 4 Whitman College men's basketball team returned to NCAA competition for the first time in nearly three weeks, picking up an 89-78 win over No. 14 College of Wooster in the team's opening game of the Wooster Tournament on Tuesday afternoon at Mesa Community College.

Five players scored in double figures for the Blues who improved to 7-1 on the season. Joey Hewitt and Trevor Osborne shared team-high honors each with 12 points. Austin Butler added seven points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals.

Danyon Hempy led all scorers with 19 points for the Fighting Scots who fell to 7-2 on the season. Reece Dupler added 15 points, five rebounds and five assists.

The Blues were a bit rusty to open the game, but used a 13-3 run to take a 23-15 lead. Hewitt converted on an and-one to give his team the eight-point lead with 12:16 to play until halftime. The Fighting Scots kept the game close until Michael Gutierrez heated up, draining consecutive three pointers to push the Blues to their largest lead to that point at 14 points.

The Blues would go cold from the floor leading up until halftime, failing to hit a field goal for a 5:46-minute stretch before Ben Beatie's bucket with 32 seconds to play ended the drought. Whitman would carry a 47-36 lead into the break.

The Blues could never quite shake Wooster in the second half. They did continue to extend the lead though, going up by 19 after a pair of Jack Stewart free throws midway through the period. The lead would swelled to as many as 20 points with just over six minutes remaining and Whitman coasted from there to pick up the solid road victory.

The Blues return to action on Wednesday for the second and final day of the tournament. They square off with Alma College at 12:00 p.m. MT (11:00 a.m. PT).
 
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