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Riniker-Westminster
Serena Ileleji
68
Westminster (UT) WC-UT 12-15,11-10 RMAC
92
Winner Colorado Mesa CMU 23-4,18-3 RMAC
Westminster (UT) WC-UT
12-15,11-10 RMAC
68
Final
92
Colorado Mesa CMU
23-4,18-3 RMAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Westminster (UT) WC-UT 32 36 68
Colorado Mesa CMU 43 49 92

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Paxton Ritchey, Sports Information Graduate Assistant

Mavs Rain Threes In Big Win

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Colorado Mesa hit a season-high 15 three-pointers and had 11 different players make a field goal in a dazzling 92-69 win over Westminster in CMU's final home game of the regular season.

The 92 points were a conference game high for CMU this season. With this win plus wins against Colorado School of Mines and MSU Denver on February 10-11, the Mavericks have avenged all three of their conference losses in the span of 13 days. The Mavs are 23-4 overall and 18-3 in conference play.

Blaise Threatt led the team with 24 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Threatt hit a trio of three pointers along with Owen Koonce, who finished with 15 points. Christopher Speller, Reece Johnson, Ty Allred and Elijah Knudsen all hit multiple triples with two apiece.

Westminster's Trey Farrer, who entered the game averaging 18.2 points and 7.4 rebounds with eight double-doubles, was held to 10 points and six rebounds by the Maverick defense. Mac Riniker had a career-high four blocks for CMU, with all four coming on Farrer.

Against a Westminster team that likes to pack the paint, Colorado Mesa came out firing three-pointers early and often. Five of CMU's first six field goal attempts of the game were from beyond the arc, with the sixth being an open dunk.

Westminster hung around through the first 15 or so minutes but a scoring run from Threatt provided some distance just before halftime, as the guard made four consecutive free throws, scored on a fast break layup, then grabbed his own offensive rebound off a miss and dished to Reece Johnson, who splashed home a three for a 41-28 lead.

The Mavericks led by 11 at the break and pushed it up to 17 when Riniker got a steal and finished a layup on the other end, leading to a Westminster timeout. The threes really started to fall in the midway part of the second half and the Mavericks led by as many as 28 points with six minutes left.

With the outcome not in doubt, some Maverick reserves got a chance to play as Eric Pollert scored his third basket of the season on a nifty reverse layup off a bounce pass from Levi Dombro and Eddie Kurjak made his second basket of the year on a jumper just inside the three-point line from the left side. Dombro did not have a field goal attempt but still finished with a block, a rebound and two assists in seven minutes.

The Mavericks end the regular season with a quick turnaround, with the rivalry matchup at Western Colorado tipping off at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. If the Mavericks win that game, they clinch no worse than the No. 2 seed in the RMAC Tournament with the potential to move to No. 1 if Fort Lewis loses one of their final two games.
 
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