Overall 3-3: Home 0-1, Road 1-1, Neutral 2-1 / NWC 0-0: Home 0-0, Road 0-0
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HIGHLIGHTS:
* Recent Games: Bruins Go 1-1 in Two Tournaments, Win at Northwest
* Coming Up: Home Game vs. Concordia is Last Contest Until after Holidays
* Schmick, Gayman HM for NWC "Player of the Week" in Last Two Weeks
* Career Lists: Gayman Moves Up to 23rd in All-Time Scoring
* NWC Stats: Bruins Near Top in Field Goal, Free Throw Percentages
RECENT GAMES: 3-2 (Click score for link to stories and box scores):
Nov. 26 - California Lutheran 91, George Fox 78 (Surf's Up Invitational, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Nov. 27 - George Fox 95, California-Santa Cruz 83 (Surf's Up Invitational, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Nov. 30 - George Fox 56, at Northwest (Wash.) 54
Dec. 3 - George Fox 65, Northwest Christian 62 (Concordia Holiday Tournament, Portland, Ore.)
Dec. 4 - at Concordia-Portland 69, George Fox 64 (Concordia Holiday Tournament, Portland, Ore.)
COMING UP:
* Fri., Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. - vs. Concordia University-Portland (4-4), Newberg, Ore.
Last game for the Bruins until Jan. 5 at Walla Walla ... The Cavaliers from Portland, Ore., are members of the NAIA and the Cascade Collegiate Conference ... George Fox leads the all-time series (since 1965) 38-13 (20-5 home, 18-8 road), but Concordia has won the last four meetings ... The Bruins' last win in the series was 72-65 overtime win in Portland on Jan. 26, 1998 ... The Cavaliers captured this year's first meeting last Saturday in Portland, a 69-64 win in the finals of Concordia's RBC Mortgage/Windermere Real Estate Holiday Tournament ... Tournament MVP Brandon Erlandson leads the Cavs in scoring (17.6) and rebounding (7.0) ...
NORTHWEST CONFERENCE:
Conference play is just under a month away (the Bruins open NWC play at Whitman on Jan. 5), and heavy pre-season favorite Puget Sound is off to a 6-0 start and ranked 5th in the latest D3hoops.com national poll. The Bruins are tied with Willamette for the 2nd-best record in pre-conference play at 3-3. For the latest NWC standings, go to www.nwcsports.com.
COACH MARK SUNDQUIST
Mark Sundquist (Seattle Pacific '89) is 30-75 (.286) to date in his 5th 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. Click here for the complete bio on Coach Sundquist.
Sundquist vs. upcoming opponents:
Concordia-Portland - 0-3 (0-1 home, 0-2 road)
BRUIN BITS:
* Schmick, Gayman HM for NWC "Player of the Week" in Last Two Weeks
Aaron Schmickled the Bruins to a 2-1 week and was named to the All-Tournament Team in the Concordia Holiday Tournament in Portland, earning Honorable Mention for Northwest Conference "Player of the Week" for Nov. 29-Dec. 5. In a 56-54 win at Cascade on Tuesday, he scored a game-high 18 points on 8-13 from the field (2-4 on 3's), with 5 rebounds and 3 assists. In a 65-62 win over Northwest Christian on Friday in the tournament's first game, he had 25 points on 9-15 from the field (2-7 on 3's) and 5-7 from the line, with career highs of 11 rebounds for his first double-double and 5 steals, and also had 3 assists and 1 blocked shot. In a 69-64 setback to host Concordia on Saturday, he scored 12 points on 5-12 from the field (0-3 on 3's) and 2-2 at the line, with 5 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 steal. For the week, in 3 games, he scored 55 points (18.3 ppg), hitting 22-40 (.550) from the field (4-14, .286 on 3's) and 7-9 (.778) from the line, with 21 rebounds (7.0 rpg), 9 assists (3.0 apg), 1 block, and 6 steals (2.0).
Mark Gayman made the All-Tournament Team as the Bruins went 1-1 in the Surf's Up Invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Nov. 26-27, earning Honorable Mention for NWC "Player of the Week" for Nov. 22-28. In a 91-78 loss to California Lutheran on Friday, he scored 10 points on 4-9 from the field and 2-3 from the line, with 6 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals. In a 95-83 win over California-Santa Cruz on Saturday, he scored a career-high 32 points, hitting 15-22 from the field and 2-2 from the line, with 10 rebounds and 2 assists. It was his 16th career double-double in points and rebounds. For the week, in 2 games, he scored 42 points (21.0) on 19-31 (.613) from the field and 4-5 (.800) from the line, with 16 rebounds (8.0), 4 assists, and 2 steals. Gayman received "Player of the Week" honors once last year while earning First Team All-Conference status.
* 2004-05 Honors:
Mark Gayman - Surf's Up Invitational All-Tournament Team
Aaron Schmick - RBC Mortgage/Windermere Real Estate Holiday Tournament All-Tournament Team
* Career Lists: Gayman Climbs to 23rd in All-Time Scoring
Mark Gayman, who entered this season with 1,007 career points, has scored 98 in the Bruins' first six games of the season, boosting his total to 1,105. One of 31 players to have reached the 1,000-point mark as a Bruin, he has moved from 30th at the beginning of the season into 23rd on the all-time GFU scoring list. Ahead are Phil Barnhart (1,12, 1977-81), Sammy Ibarra (1,112, 1970-73), and Eric Swanson (1,132, 1986-88) ...
* NWC Stats: Bruins Near Top in Field Goal, Free Throw Percentages
In the latest Northwest Conference stats (Dec. 6), George Fox is 2nd in field goal pct. (.486), assist/turnover ratio (1.07), 3rd in defense (70.3), scoring margin (-0.8), free throw pct. (.716), turnover margin (+0.83), 4th in assists (14.83, tie), 5th in 3-pt pct. (.352), blocked shots (2.83), steals (6.50), 6th in scoring (69.5), 7th in rebounding (30.2), rebound margin (-2.7), 9th in 3-pt field goals (5.17) ...
Aaron Schmick is 4th in scoring (17.2), 6th in field goal pct. (.603), 9th in 3-pt pct. (.429), 10th in 3-pt field goals (2.00, tie), 12th in free throw pct. (.833, tie), 13th in assists (2.83, tie) ...
Mark Gayman is 5th in scoring (16.3), 6th in rebounding (6.5), 13th in assist/turnover ratio (1.18), 14th in field goal pct. (.524) ...
Scott Szalay is 2nd in blocked shots (1.83), 13th in rebounding (5.3, tie) ...
Chris Parker is 7th in field goal pct. (.600), 8th in free throw pct. (.867) ...
Brent Satern is 7th in assists (3.33), 14th in assist/turnover ratio (1.18) ...
Philip Heu-Weller is 5th in free throw pct. (.900), 14th in 3-pt field goals (1.50, tie), 15th in 3-pt pct. (.391, tie) ...
* The Wirta Streaks:
Mike "Biggs" Wirta, George Fox's statistical guru, raised his string of consecutive Bruin men's basketball games attended, home and away, to 544 entering this Friday's contest with Concordia, last missing one on Nov. 25, 1985, at Puget Sound. His streak of men's basketball home games worked is 406, last missing a home game on Dec. 15, 1972, vs. Willamette, when he was in advanced training with the Army at Ft. Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Now in his 34th season of keeping Bruin statistics, Biggs has seen 957 George Fox men's basketball games in his lifetime.