Well I paid the $7.95 for the feed, the somewhat questionable feed at times, but nevertheless I watched Cal Baptist play at Hawaii Pacific. A nice 80-70 road win for the Lancers in one of those big multi-purpose facilities that honestly doesn't give HP much of a home-court advantage. The Blaisdell Center seats 6-7k people but a guess is a few hundred were there. Definitely have to be self-motivated because you don't receive much energy from the crowd.
Lancers led throughout, up 43-34 at half, and extended it to 16 early in the 2nd. Credit those Sharks though, they fought back and actually took the lead 60-59. Back to back 3's by CBU and it stayed around that 6-8 point margin the rest of the way. Good test for both squads, HP shoots a lot of 3's and I think this may have been their first legit team that got after them defensively.
CBU led by Michael Smith with 28, Jordan Heading with 20, Kalidou Diouf with 12 and a plug for Jason who played all 40, had 8 boards, 7 points and 3 blocks.
HP had 3 guys in double figures - Orr, Looney and DeFreitas. CBU had a 39-27 advantage on the boards, shot 15-16 from the line. HP was 10-17.
Quality game, they meet again in Riverside in February.
Lancers led throughout, up 43-34 at half, and extended it to 16 early in the 2nd. Credit those Sharks though, they fought back and actually took the lead 60-59. Back to back 3's by CBU and it stayed around that 6-8 point margin the rest of the way. Good test for both squads, HP shoots a lot of 3's and I think this may have been their first legit team that got after them defensively.
CBU led by Michael Smith with 28, Jordan Heading with 20, Kalidou Diouf with 12 and a plug for Jason who played all 40, had 8 boards, 7 points and 3 blocks.
HP had 3 guys in double figures - Orr, Looney and DeFreitas. CBU had a 39-27 advantage on the boards, shot 15-16 from the line. HP was 10-17.
Quality game, they meet again in Riverside in February.
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