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Pointers Close
Regular Season by Beating Superior
Box Score
Scoring runs to close the
first half and start the second half propelled the UW-Stevens Point men�s
basketball team to convincing 85-56 over UW-Superior on Saturday at the
Quandt Fieldhouse.
The Pointers built an early
lead before the Yellowjackets rallied and faced a 26-25 deficit with four
minutes left in the first half. UW-Stevens Point then closed the first half
with an 11-2 run and opened the second half with an 8-0 spurt to pull away
for the victory.
UW-Stevens Point ended the
regular season with a 16-9 overall record and 11-5 conference mark. The
Pointers will be the third seed for the upcoming Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference tournament and host sixth-seeded UW-Platteville on
Tuesday at 7 p.m. UW-Superior ended the year 5-20 overall and 0-16 in the
WIAC, marking the first winless season by a league team since the
Yellowjackets failed to win a game during the 1989-90 season.
Jon Krull started the
offensive attack for the Pointers with 10 of the team�s first 22 points in
the first 10 minutes of the game. Krull finished with 14 points and six
assists on seven-for-seven shooting from two-point range before Pete
Rortvedt and Steve Hicklin took over the offense as each scored 12 points in
a 48-point second half.
Rortvedt matched a
career-high with 18 points and grabbed a career-best 10 rebounds. His
biggest play came in the closing seconds of the first half when he drained a
three-pointer from the left corner for a 37-27 halftime lead. Hicklin had 19
points, finishing eight-for-10 from the floor on primarily mid-range
jumpers.
The Pointers shot 54.1
percent from the field and held UW-Superior to 31.7 percent shooting.
Leonard Cobb, the league�s leading scorer and rebounder, scored 22 points
and had nine rebounds, but was eight-for-22 from the field.
UW-Stevens Point had 14
different players score points and made nine three-pointers in the victory. |
