Box Score
LETHBRIDGE – After cruising to an easy 88-61 win last night against the UBC-Okanagan Heat, the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns men’s basketball team met a fiercer opponent in the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack, fighting to a 106-93 win Saturday night.  The WolfPack, coming off of a 17 point win over the University of Calgary Dinos, shot a blistering 50 percent from three point land, but came up short against the 'Horns unselfish play.
 
The American duo of guards, Alex Fletcher and Daryl Cooper, came up big for the victors, with 25 points apiece.  Post Derek Waldner scored 14 and pulled down eight boards, while Morgan Duce chipped in 11. 
 
The WolfPack relied heavily on another American, Washingtonian swingman Chas Kok, who was 6-8 from three-point range, accumulating 45 points, even against intense defensive pressure.  He was aided by 16 points from both Kevin Pribilsky and Canada West scoring leader Justin King.
 
After holding a single digit lead for most of the game, the Horns pushed their lead to its greatest margin of nine in the third quarter, but the continued accuracy of Kok closed the gap and tied the score at 79 with seven minutes left to play.  U of L Head Coach, Dave Adams, noted his team’s poise in not crumbling under the pressure of the TRU surge.  “I can’t say enough about how pleased and proud I am of these guys tonight.  We were in the same situation as in Winnipeg last week,” (where the Wesmen overcame the lead the Horns had held most of the game, tied it up with 1:30 left to play, and went on to win by three).  Adams continued, “I called a time-out and told them, ‘Don’t repeat that; don’t make the same mistakes again.”  Coming out of the huddle, the Horns minimized their mistakes and rallied against the WolfPack’s effort with some three-point shooting of their own by Fletcher and Logan Reiter, pushing their lead to 13 by the final buzzer.  Adams continued, “It was so nice that everyone finally got to see what I see every day in practice.” 
 
This game marks the first time in 12 years that the Pronghorns men’s basketball team has stood atop their conference division, now tied with the University of Alberta at 3-1.  This weekend also stands as the first time in recent memory that both the men’s and women’s teams have swept at home. 
 
The Pronghorns will move on to play the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in Saskatoon next weekend, November 18-19, with the men’s game tipping off at 8:00 pm, while Thompson Rivers will meet up with the University of Victoria Vikes in Victoria.  Games will be streamed online at canadawest.tv.