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BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26
This evening it’s the second edition of a 2021-22 Siouxland showdown with Northwestern College’s visit to Allee Gymnasium of the Rosen-Verdoorn Sports Center. The twin bill with the Red Raiders opens a relatively quiet week’s slate for Morningside University. It’s the only contest of the span for head coach Trent Miller’s men’s team, while head coach Jamie Sale’s women travel to the College of Saint Mary Saturday, Jan. 29.
THE SERIES Northwestern claimed both ends of the doubleheader at their home Bultman Center on Dec. 11. NWC’s women’s victory stopped a six-game Mside win streak. Fans might want to settle in for a tight contest tonight as the last seven meetings have been decided by 10-points-or-less. The Red Raider men, with the Orange City victory, have won two in a row. Morningside has a 6-2 edge over the last eight clashes.
THE MATCH-UP Shooting accuracy continues to be a strength for Morningside’s men. They are among the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics top 50 in overall (48.1 pct. – No. 37), three-point (37.3 pct. – No. 28), and free throw (73.6 pct. – No. 36) conversion. Senior guard Zach Imig continues to move closer to the program’s all-time scoring top five. He enters the evening with 1,658 points, just 20 from moving past former teammate Brody Egger for the fifth spot. A fast-starting Morningside squad proved the difference in a needed Great Plains Athletic Conference decision on Jan. 22. The Mustangs scored 23 of the game’s first 30 points and allowed the host Mount Marty University Lancers to close to within four just once as part of an 80-71 victory at MMU’s Laddie E. Cimpl Arena. Miller’s squad, improving to 11-7 overall and 8-5 in the league, kept themselves just two and a half games behind GPAC-leading Briar Cliff University. Vanderloo led a hot-shooting visiting unit. He posted 19 points and grabbed five rebounds, hitting eight-of-15 from the field. Joey Skoff, also a sophomore perimeter player, scored 12 points, going five-of-nine shooting-wise. Forward/center Ely Doble, also a member of the Class of 2024, was five-for-nine from the field, too, highlighting a 10-point, six-rebound, four-assist afternoon. With those three plus senior forward Collin Hill, who put up 10 points and was only two rebounds short of a doubledouble typifying the Mustangs’ efforts, Morningside was above 50 percent from the field overall and outside the arc.
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