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Pointers Fall at
Whitewater in Closing Minutes
Box Score
After leading nearly the entire game, the
UW-Stevens Point men�s basketball team could not come up with the big plays
down the stretch as UW-Whitewater pulled out a 70-64 win over the Pointers
on Wednesday in Whitewater.
It was the fifth time in six years that UW-Stevens
Point suffered its first conference defeat to the Warhawks as the Pointers
fell to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference. UW-Whitewater is 4-2 overall and 2-0 in the league.
With the game tied at 64-64 with 1:47 left,
UW-Whitewater�s Mike Toellner hit a pair of free throws to put the Warhawks
ahead. After UW-Stevens Point committed an offensive foul on the other end,
Toellner hit an open layup with 1:03 seconds left to give the Warhawks their
biggest lead of the game to that point at 68-64. UW-Stevens Point again
missed a chance to cut the deficit, missing a shot before fouling Anthony
Mlachnik, who hit two free throws for a 70-64 advantage. The Warhawks were
23-for-26 from the free throw line and made their last 12 attempts.
The Pointers led the entire first half and had
their biggest lead of the game at 28-20 in before the Warhawks scored the
final seven points of the first half to cut the lead to 28-27 at
intermission.
UW-Whitewater held a brief one-point lead early in
the second half, but UW-Stevens Point regained the advantage and extended
its lead to as many as seven points midway through the half. The Pointers
maintained the lead until the Warhawks� Craig Anderson tied the game at
60-60 on a three-pointer with 4:14 remaining.
The Pointers shot just 36.4 percent for the game,
marking on the sixth time in the last 94 games that they�ve been held below
40 percent. UW-Stevens Point has lost all six of those cold-shooting
performances. The Pointers were particularly out of sync in the second half
at 33.3 percent.
Jon Krull and Pete Rortvedt led the Pointers with
15 points apiece. Steve Hicklin and Brian Bauer each had 11 points. Anderson
had 15 points to lead the Warhawks. |
