Whitman WCMBBAL 8-11, 6-5 NWC

102

Linfield LIN-M 15-5, 10-2 NWC

Whitman WCMBBAL

8-11, 6-5 NWC

Final

Feb. 05, 2022

102

Linfield LIN-M

15-5, 10-2 NWC

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	F
Whitman WCMBBAL	40	43	83
Linfield LIN-M	56	46	102

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | 2/5/2022 8:43:00 PM

Men's Basketball Upended At Linfield

McMINNVILLE, Ore. - The Blues saw positive contributions from a handful of players but it came in defeat as the Whitman College men's basketball team was soundly defeated at Linfield in Northwest Conference action on Saturday night.

Nikola Trifunovic scored a team-high 15 points for the Blues (8-11, 6-5 NWC) on 3-6 shooting in three pointers, and Jai Deshpande and Walter Lum added 13 and 11 points respectively. Alex Pape chipped in 10 points off the bench.

Dempsey Roggenbuck led five Linfield players in double figures, scoring a game-high 21 points on 9-14 shooting. Carson Bonine added 19 points and handed out five assists.

Whitman shot it well from the floor but the Wildcats did it much better. Linfield shot 62% from the field and 40% from beyond the arc. The Blues only hit 29% of their three-point shots and saw Linfield chip in eight more points at the free throw line, making up nearly half the scoring difference.

The Blues had the upper hand early and took an 8-6 lead off buckets from Deshpande and Xzavier Lino. Linfield got it going in a hurry and went on a 15-4 run to take a 21-12 lead approaching the midway point of the first half.

The Blues remained in the hunt though. Lum hit back-to-back jumpers and Lino nailed a three pointer to make it a 23-19 ball game. Whitman kept the deficit in single digits until consecutive three pointers from Roggenbuck and Aaron Baune pushed the lead to 12 points with 4:16 to play until halftime. The Wildcats kept their foot on the gas and carried a 56-40 lead into the break.

Linfield quickly went up by 20 points in the second half and never looked back. The lead swelled to as many as 27 points on two different occasions as the Wildcats cruised to the victory.

The Blues play their final regular season road games next weekend when they visit Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran.

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