Corban Men’s Basketball Ends Home Conference Weekend with Double-Digit Victory Over Multnomah
With the bad taste of a home loss still in their mouth from the night prior, the Corban University Men's Basketball team (5-2, 2-1) was able to quickly erase any doubt they had in their ability to compete with any team in the Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC), as the Warriors downed the Multnomah University Lions (5-3, 1-2) by a final score of 93-72 on an extremely efficient shooting night.
"Really proud of the way our guys responded tonight," Corban Head Coach Taylor Kelly said following his team's statement win tonight over the Lions. "We had a great team effort that you can notice with the 24 assists we had as a group."
Kelly went on to say, "Our guys did a great job defensively tonight on making multiple efforts and forced them into 40% shooting from the floor. Tonight felt like we reestablished ourselves and got back to our recipe for success."
The Warriors were able to dominate this contest from nearly start to finish, as the Lion held their only leads of the day between the tipoff and the 17-minute mark of the first half, all thanks to guard Zach Richardson scoring the first seven points for Multnomah.
However, the Warriors didn't let another hot shooting night at the three-point line from a Portland university guard scare them away, as the lead established by a layup from senior forward Darius Henderson would be the last time Corban flipped the lead back in their favor tonight, holding their advantage the remainder of the night.
The Warriors piled on the points on the Lions over the course of the contest, leading by 20 points at the halftime break and never allowing them to pull within seven points for the rest of the evening. A 56-49 lead by Corban was the closest margin at the 14:47 mark in the second half and the Navy and Gold quickly spread their advantage back to double-digits within minutes of their slight dip in performance.
Corban had four different student-athletes score in the double-digits tonight, led by junior guard Collin Warmouth's 18 points in only 20 minutes played. Henderson provided 13 points in limited minutes as well, while senior guard Elijah Mitchell returned to the lineup for Corban to score another 11 points and add a trio of rebounds, assists, and steals.
Senior guard Mateo Escheik had the best all-around performance of 11 points and 13 rebounds for a crafty double-double for the Dallas, Texas native, adding five assists to fall five more shy of a triple-double.
Richardson ended his evening with a game-high 26 points and brought down four rebounds as well, taking more than 20 field goal attempts in the process. Fellow guards Wallace Ungwiluk and Taylor Peppinger each tallied 11 points in the Lions' effort at Tim Hills Court today, while guard Neyland Block played the role of playmaker with seven assists and eight rebounds.
Despite an off week from CCC play, things certainly don't get much easier for the Corban Men's Basketball team, as the Warriors will head to the Comfort Suites Classic in Helena, Montana next weekend, hosted by No. 23 Carroll College. Corban will battle Montana State-Northern on December 9th, before playing the tournament hosts the following evening.
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