Sun 25-Nov-2001

Kalsow leads Pointers in defeat of Edgewood

OSHKOSH -- Jason Kalsow scored 15 points to lead the UW-Stevens Point men's basketball team past Edgewood College of Madison 62-47 in the third annual Badger State Challenge.  The Pointers, who improve to 4-0, staved off a second half which saw the Eagles close the UW-SP lead to 48-47 with 3:56 to play in the game.  But, the Pointers scored the game's final 14 points to seal the win.

"The nice thing about this is that we are doing it with a very young team," said head coach Jack Bennett.

Kalsow -- a freshman from Huntley, Illinois -- did most of his work in the first half, scoring 11 points before the intermission.  He was forced to leave the game in the second half with a cut in the upper lip that required several stitches.

UW-SP made 15 out of 18 free throw attempts, including all nine of its shots from the charity stripe in the second half.  Other top scorers for the Pointers were Josh Iserloth and Kalonji Kadima with nine points apiece and Ron Nolting with eight.

Royce Malkowski led the Eagles with 15 points.

Edgewood College 24 23 -- 47
UW-Stevens Point 34 28 -- 62