The #19 Lewis & Clark Pioneer Men's Basketball Team defeated
the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz 113-65 Saturday afternoon in
Burlingame, Calif. (box score). Tyson
Papenfuss scored 27 points for the Pioneers. Mark Robinowitz scored
21.
The Pioneers, playing in their first game since December 5, got
off to a slow start in the game, trailing UCSC 20-15
six-and-a-half minutes into the game. With just under 11 minutes
remaining in the half, Mark Robinowitz (senior, Portland, Ore.),
with his team trailing by one, was fouled on a three-point attempt.
He hit three freethrows to put the Pioneers up 24-22, a lead they
would not relinquish the rest of the game. The Pioneers closed out
the final ten minutes of the half outscoring Santa Cruz 28-13 to
take a comfortable 54-35 lead into the break.
The Pioneers came back out of the locker room picking right back
up where they left off, pressing the Banana Slugs, forcing eight
turnovers in the first six minutes of the second half, holding
Santa Cruz to just two points, a lone field goal hit 16 seconds
into the second half, for that same time frame. On the other end of
the court, the Pioneers scored 24 points in those same six minutes
to take a 78-37 lead. The Pioneers hit triple digits, 101-48, on a
jumper by Corey Allen (junior, Portland, Ore.) with over seven
minutes remaining in the game. The Pioneers then slowed down the
pace to cruise to their 113-65 final score.
Tyson Papenfuss (junior, Clackamas, Ore.) was 11-13 shooting
from the field, scoring 27 points. Mark Robinowitz posted 21. Nick
Thierry (senior, Beaverton, Ore.) had 7 steals, one shy of the
Pioneer record for most in a game (8, done twice by Ian Gee).
Thierry also had five assists and five rebounds. Josh Kollasch
(sophomore, Tucson, Ariz.) contributed 6 more steals, with the
Pioneer team posting 19 steals in the game. Kollasch also scored 11
points with six rebounds and four assists.
The 113 points put up by Lewis & Clark is the 15th-highest
Pioneer point total in school history and the most points put up by
the Pioneers in a game since the 2000-01 season when they defeated
PLU 112-69 at the Pamplin Sports Center.
The Pioneers take another short break for Christmas before
heading to Arizona to play two games at the Grand Canyon Classic,
the final warmups before the Conference portion of their schedule
begins on January 2.
