A Woods jumper brought the T-Birds back within four and, after a Tre Filmore triple, Woods and Audu each scored for UBC to close out the quarter down a basket at 17-15 Spartans. Isaiah Reimer opened the scoring for TWU with a three and the Spartans earned a six-point lead thanks to a Gilbreath layup at 12-6 midway through the first. He's a heck of a player so you have to have five guys ready to defend him." "He's been a guy we've struggled to guard and, even though we focus on him, he got too many easy looks tonight. "We have to have a better team effort on Gilbreath," said Hanson. Tre Fillmore and Connor Platz each had 11 points in the loss, while Ja'Qualyn Gilbreath scored 11 points in the fourth quarter before fouling out with just under three minutes remaining and finishing with a game-high 27 points – adding four rebounds in the loss.
We still have a long way to go – which is a positive – but we have to clean a lot of things up." "We're missing Sukhman who stretches the defense and alters shots with his presence defensively, but we're playing so many different lineups and are still trying to learn what our team is about and who plays well together. "We had a bit more of an offensively oriented group of guys," said UBC head coach Kevin Hanson. Grant Audu had 10 points and six rebounds in the win, and Kyle Foreman tallied 11 points with five assists in his home court debut with the Thunderbirds.ĭespite the absence of sharpshooting big man Sukhman Sandhu, UBC made the most of their small ball lineups and won the board battle – outrebounding the Spartans 56-34 and holding the visitors to just nine points in the second quarter. James Woods racked up 17 first-half points and finished with a team-high 24 points – adding a season-high nine rebounds and three steals – while Brian Wallack set three new career highs in the victory, as the Surrey product put up 13 points and 15 boards in 30 minutes of play.
Seattle did so despite still struggling to convert on third down (5 of 15), though it added two conversions on two tries on fourth down.The UBC Thunderbirds overpowered the Trinity Western Spartans (0-5) in a 78-68 victory at War Memorial Gym to stay undefeated at 9-0 with one game remaining before the winter break. Perhaps most important considering Seattle had failed to possess the ball for at least 21 minutes in each of its past three losses, the Seahawks won the time of possession battle 33:12 to 26:48. San Francisco marched right down the field and got near the goal line itself, only for Dunlap to bat down a Garoppolo throw on fourth down to seal the win for the Hawks.
Seattle came within just a few yards of putting the game away with another long drive in the fourth quarter, only for tight end Gerald Everett to fumble the ball away to San Francisco – that was his second lost fumble of the day, and Seattle also had an interception that bounced off his hands – on the doorstep of the end zone with just over four minutes to go. That’s because Seattle threw caution into the wind and instead of punting to complete a three-and-out on its opening drive, Travis Homer took a direct snap on a fake punt and ran for a 73-yard touchdown.īack corner. There was a pretty good indication right away that this wasn’t going to be some ho-hum game. Get a look at the fast facts, video highlights and more below. 31, handing the 49ers (6-6) their first loss since Nov.
The Seahawks came back from a 17-7 deficit in the first half to earn their first win since Oct. With the game on the line, the Seahawks defense came up HUGE ? In the end it was the long arm of Seahawks defensive end Carlos Dunlap that batted down 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo’s final shot at the end zone from the 3 to seal the 30-23 victory, allow Seattle to improve to 4-8 on the season.