Overall 0-1: Home 0-1, Road 0-0, Neutral 0-0 / NWC 0-0: Home 0-0, Road 0-0
HIGHLIGHTS:
* Last Week: Bruins Fall to Northwest in Last-Minute Loss
* Coming Up: Warner Pacific Visits Bruins in Only Game of Week
* Gayman Honorable Mention for NWC "Player of the Week"
* Career Lists: Gayman Aiming for 1,000 Points This Season
* Personal Highs: Several Bruins Set New Marks in Northwest Game
THIS WEEK:
Tues., Nov. 25, 7:30 pm - vs. Warner Pacific College, Newberg, Ore.
64th meeting (since 1965) ... George Fox leads the series 43-20 (23-7 home, 20-13 road), but Warner Pacific has won the last 2 games, including an 86-85 decision on Dec. 30 last year in Portland ... The Knights from Portland, Ore., are members of the NAIA, the NCCAA, and the Cascade Collegiate Conference ...The Knights, who went 22-13 and made the NCCAA National Tournament last year, are 2-4 in the early going this season ... Guard Joe Hoover leads the Knights in scoring (14.5), guard Nick Hudson averages 13.7 ppg and has 19 3-pointers, and forward Wesley Powell averages 13.2 ppg and is the leading rebounder at 7.8 rpg ... Two of the Knights' losses have been to NWC foes Willamette (76-78) and Linfield (62-74) ...
LAST WEEK: 0-1 (Click score for link to story):
Nov. 21 - Northwest 89, at George Fox 88
NORTHWEST CONFERENCE: George Fox (0-1) was picked to finish 9th in the NWC this season, the same spot they finished in last year. Whitworth is this year's NWC favorite. The Bruins have nine non-conference games this season, eight of them before the NWC opener on Jan. 9 vs. Puget Sound. For the latest NWC standings and stats, go to www.nwcsports.com.
COACH MARK SUNDQUIST (Seattle Pacific '89) is 20-55 (.267) in his 4th season as a college head coach, all at George Fox. He coached the boys' programs at Woodburn (Ore.) High for two years and at Newberg (Ore.) High for one year before joining the Bruins.
Sundquist vs. this week's opponent: 1-2 vs. Warner Pacific (0-1 home, 1-1 road)
BRUIN BITS:
* Gayman Honorable Mention for NWC "Player of the Week":
Mark Gayman (Jr., W, Hillsboro, Ore. / Glencoe HS) scored the Bruins' first 7 points of the game, 13 in the first half, and 24 in all, in the Bruins' season-opening 89-88 loss to Northwest at home on Nov. 21, earning Honorable Mention for Northwest Conference "Player of the Week". He was 8-11 from the field, including 2-2 from 3-point range, and 6-10 from the line, with 4 blocked shots and 3 steals. He was an Honorable Mention All-Conference player and won NWC Player of the Week once last year.
NWC "Player of the Week" honors went to John Mietus of Lewis and Clark, who led the Pioneers in a pair of wins, including one over NAIA Division I #15 Lewis-Clark State, with 49 points and 26 rebounds.
* 100th Year of Bruin Basketball in 2003-04:
The 2003-04 season marks the 100th year in which there has been men's basketball at the institution now known as George Fox University. The first year that the school sponsored a team was the 1901-02 season, but there were two years since then when there was no team: 1903-04, when smallpox forced cancellation of the season, and 1918-19, when an influenza outbreak wiped out the schedule. Insofar as records can be authenticated, the Bruins, counting this season's scores, have a 100-year cumulative record of 963-990-1.
* Hot Hands All Around:
The final 10 minutes of the George Fox-Northwest game on Nov. 21 saw both teams blistering the nets. The Bruins scored 25 points in the final quarter of the game, a pace that would have resulted in 100 points for an entire game - but the Eagles were even hotter. After scoring only 47 points in the first 30 minutes, the visitors from Kirkland, Wash., scorched the cords for 42 points and pulled out an 89-88 win.
"They just couldn't miss," admitted Bruin coach Mark Sundquist, pointing to the Eagles' 8 2nd-half 3-pointers, 5 in the final 3 minutes. "They hit shots with people in their faces, their big guys came out and shot 3s - it was amazing. I thought we played pretty good defense; they just had the hot hand. Of course, if we had hit our free throws (the Bruins made only 18 of 33 attempts), it wouldn't have mattered."
* Career Lists: Gayman Aiming for 1,000th Point This Season
--- Mark Gayman, who entered this season with 582 career points, had 24 in the opener vs. Northwest and now has 606. He needs 394 more this season to become the 31st player in the 100-year history of Bruin basketball to reach 1,000 career points ...
* Personal Highs: Several Bruins Set New Marks in Opener
--- Mark Gayman had new highs with 2 3-pt field goals and 4 blocked shots vs. Northwest on Nov. 21 ...
--- Aaron Schmick (So., W, Hillsboro, Ore. / Century HS) had a career-high 7 rebounds and tied his high with 4 assists vs. Northwest ...
--- Ben Melvin (So., PG, Pleasant Hill, Ore. / Pleasant Hill HS), making his first career start, passed out 9 assists and scored 7 points for new career highs vs. Northwest ...
--- Scott Szalay (So., P, Everett, Wash. / Kamiak HS) made his first college appearance, starting against Northwest, and established career marks to shoot at with 19 points on 9-12 shooting, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, and a block ...
--- Chris Parker (Fr., P, Aloha, Ore. / Aloha HS) also made his first appearance as a college player and had 7 points with a perfect shooting night (2-2 fg, 3-3 ft) and 2 rebounds ...