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Lewis & Clark College

Taien Jackson holds the ball while looking for someone to pass to
Claudia Loeber
65
Lewis & Clark L&C 5-10,1-5 NWC
73
Winner Puget Sound PS 8-7,4-2 NWC
Lewis & Clark L&C
5-10,1-5 NWC
65
Final
73
Puget Sound PS
8-7,4-2 NWC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Lewis & Clark L&C 31 34 65
Puget Sound PS 27 46 73

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Seth Orensky

Second-Half Run Leads Loggers Past Men's Basketball

Taien Jackson scored a team-high 14 points in the contests

TACOMA, Wash.—Host University of Puget Sound used a 12-2 run midway through the second half to take a two-possession lead and held on to defeat Lewis & Clark College men's basketball on Saturday night in Northwest Conference play. 
 
THE BASICS
Puget Sound 73, Lewis & Clark 65
(Lewis & Clark 5-10, NWC 1-5) 
(Puget Sound 8-7, NWC 4-2) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The Pioneers played one of their best first halves of the season in conference play but the Loggers responded by outscoring Lewis & Clark 46-34 in the second half. 
 
Washington native Taien Jackson led the Pioneers with 14 points on 7-10 shooting off the bench. Jackson added four rebounds and tied for the team lead with two assists. 
 
Junior Sam Henderson was the other Lewis & Clark play in double-figures. Henderson recorded 10 points on 4-6 shooting and drained two of the Pioneers five 3-pointers (2-3). He also tied for the team lead with five rebounds. 
 
Junior Khalil Glover-Dodson made his second-consecutive start and recorded nine points on 4-10 shooting. Juniors Mikey Medlock Jr. and Isaac Ticeson finished tied for fourth on the team with eight points apiece. 
 
Three Loggers did the majority of the scoring for the hosts. Zane Miller (20 points), Taj Phillips (15 points) and Liam Rutledge (12 points) combined for 47 points on 15-30 shooting. The rest of the team combined to shoot 11-31 with no one recording more than six points. 
 
After struggling with slow starts to games, Lewis & Clark's new look starting lineup raced out to a 7-0 lead three minutes in. Henderson drained a 3-pointer on the opening possession of the game and then hit a layup. Sophomore TJ Muhammad added a layup off a Loggers turnover with 17:00 to go before halftime to make it 7-0. 
 
The Loggers briefly grabbed the lead (12-11), only for Lewis & Clark to use another 7-0 flurry to grab the lead for the rest of the half. This time it was Jackson and Ticeson who started the run and Henderson capping it off with a 3-pointer (18-12). 
 
Lewis & Clark led by seven with just five second left in the half after Kody Uyesugi hit a pair of free throws. Phillips hit a dagger right before the break though, as the Puget Sound junior drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer to make it 31-27 Pioneers. 
 
Phillips added another three right out of the break and the Loggers took their second lead of the game on a Hugo Rutherford jumper with 19:17 to go in the game (32-31). 
 
The two teams would trade the lead over the next two minutes, before Lewis & Clark posted their third and final 7-0 run. Trailing 40-38, Jackson scored on back-to-back possessions to  make it 42-40. Glover-Dodson added a three to give the Pioneers a 45-40 lead with 15:47 to play. 
 
Unfortunately for Lewis & Clark, Puget Sound had a big answer. The hosts went on an 8-0 run (48-45) over the next 2:35 to grab their largest lead of the game to that point. Ticeson briefly stopped the tide with a putback layup, but a 3-pointer from Miller and a layup from Will Mathews made it 52-47 with 11:37 to play. 
 
Lewis & Clark would cut the deficit to three points on four occasions but every time the hosts were able to respond. Puget Sound extended their advantage to seven points late and Miller hit a free throw with 10 seconds remaining to give the hosts their largest lead of the game at 73-65. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS
  • Lewis & Clark held a 15-11 edge in points off turnovers and 34-30 lead in points in the paint. 
  • Jackson's 14 points were the most points in a conference game of his career. Saturday's game was the sixth double-digit point game of his career but the first during an NWC contest. 
  • Puget Sound shot 62.5 percent in the second half (15-24) after shooting just 29.7 percent in the first half. The Pioneers outshot the hosts 46.4 percent to 42.6 percent for the contest. 
  • Glover-Dodson and Muhammad each made their first two starts of the season this weekend. For Muhammad, the starts marked his first two collegiate starts. 
  • Nate Berg, Ryan Trunkett and Henderson tied for the team lead with five rebounds apiece. Trunkett played eight minutes in his second game back from an injury.  
WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will return home to wrap up the first half of NWC play. The Pioneers will host Willamete University on Friday night and Pacific University on Saturday night. 
 
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