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Overall 4-3: Home 3-0, Road 0-2, Neutral 1-1 / NWC 1-1: Home 1-0, Road 0-1
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HIGHLIGHTS:
* Coming Up: Pair of NAIA Opponents in Tournament at Corban
* Recent Games: Bruins Drop Road Pair in Puget Sound Area
* Satern BAA Athlete of the Week, HM for NWC Player Honors
* Career Lists: Parker, Heu-Weller on All-time FG, FT Lists
* NWC Stats: Six Bruins Among Latest League Leaders
RECENT GAMES: 0-2 (Click score for link to stories and box scores):
Dec. 2 - at #22 Puget Sound 92, George Fox 79
Dec. 5 - at Northwest 72, George Fox 68
COMING UP:
* Fri., Dec. 8, 6:00 pm - vs. Oregon Institute of Technology Hustlin' Owls (11-0), at Salem, Ore.
KFOX Radio webcast ... 1st game of the Hillyer's Mid-City Ford Classic at Corban College ... Corban plays Lewis-Clark State College in the 2nd game at 8 p.m. ... Oregon Tech is a member of the NAIA Division II and the Cascade Collegiate Conference ... OIT, the 2004 NAIA D-II national champion, is currently ranked 2nd in the NAIA national poll ... Coach Danny Miles is 799-351 to date in his 36th season, and will become only the 11th coach in college history to win 800 games with his next win ... In the NAIA, Miles trails only Harry Statham of McKendree (923 and counting) ... Series record: GFU trails 14-24 since 1966 (home 9-10, road 5-24) ... The teams last met in 1995, the Bruins winning 94-74 in Newberg on Jan. 14 and the Owls winning 96-78 in Klamath Falls on Feb. 10 ... Oregon Tech averages 91.0 ppg while allowing 60.3 and makes 10.5 three-pointers per game ... The Owls have three players scoring in double figures: F Ryan Fiegi (17.0), All-American G Levell Hesia (15.0), and G Josh Garrett (14.8) ... C Joshua Wetzler is the top rebounder (9.1) ... Hesia is the assists leader (6.2) ... OIT plays Lewis-Clark State Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. in the tournament ...
* Sat. Dec. 9, 8:00 pm - at Corban College Warriors (1-10), Salem, Ore.
KFOX Radio webcast ... 4th game of the Hillyer's Mid-City Ford Classic ... Oregon Tech plays Lewis-Clark State in the 3rd game at 6 p.m. ... Corban is a member of the NAIA Division II and the Cascade Collegiate Conference ... Series record: GFU leads 49-32 since 1971 (25-14 home, 24-18 road) ... The Bruins have won the last two meetings, including a 74-61 win to open the season on Nov. 17 in Newberg ... The Warriors have lost six in a row entering the tournament ... Corban averages 72.2 ppg and allows 83.5 ... The Warriors have two players in double figures in scoring: F Wade Douglas (14.0) and G Jason Braun (12.6) ... Douglas is the top rebounder (5.0) ... Corban plays Lewis-Clark State Friday before meeting GFU, then hosts Eastern Oregon Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in a conference game ...
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COACH MARK SUNDQUIST
Mark Sundquist (Seattle Pacific '89) is 66-90 (.423) to date in his 7th season as a college head coach, all at George Fox. He was the NWC Coach of the Year in 2004-05 for leading the Bruins to an 18-7 record and 2nd place in the conference. 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:
Oregon Tech - 0-0
Corban - 2-1 (home 2-0, road 0-1)
BRUIN BITS:
* Satern BAA Athlete of the Week, HM for NWC Player Honors
Junior point guard Brent Satern has been named the Bruin Athletic Association Men's Athlete of the Week and received honorable mention for Northwest Conference Men's Player of the Week for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 for his efforts in the Bruins' 1-1 week. In a 91-85 win over Linfield on Tuesday, he had a career-high 25 points on 9-16 from the field and 7-9 from the line, with 8 assists and 3 rebounds. In a 92-79 setback at 22nd-ranked Puget Sound on Saturday, he had 9 points on a perfect shooting night, going 3-3 from the field and 3-3 from the line, with 2 assists, a steal and a blocked shot. For the week, he scored 34 points (17.0 ppg) on 12-19 (.632) from the field and 10-12 (.833) from the line, with 10 assists, 3 rebounds, a steal and a block. He is 3rd in the NWC in assists (6.00), 7th in steals (1.86), 13th in assist/turnover ratio (0.98:1), and 16th in scoring (14.0).
* 2006-07 Honors:
- Chris Parker - Bruin Athletic Association Men's Athlete of the Week (Nov. 13-19); NWC Player of the Week (Nov. 13-19)4-20)
- Phil Heu-Weller - Bruin Athletic Association Men's Athlete of the Week (Nov. 20-26); NWC Player of the Week (HM-Nov. 20-26)
- Brent Satern - Bruin Athletic Association Men's Athlete of the Week (Nov. 27-Dec. 3); NWC Player of the Week (HM-Nov. 27-Dec. 3)
* Double-Doubles:
Brent Satern: Career 2, season 1 - 14 pts/10 ast vs. Corban, 11/17
Chris Parker: Career 1, season 1 - 18 pts/10 reb vs. Holy Names, 11/18
* Records Set or Tied in 2006-07:
- Most Turnovers, Player, Game - 12 by Brent Satern vs. Concordia-Irvine at Pukulani, Hawaii (old record was 11 by Gary Chenault at Portland State, 1/13/78)
* Career Lists: Parker, Heu-Weller on All-time FG, FT Lists
- Phil Heu-Weller began the season with the 4th-best free throw pct. in Bruin history (.847, 138-163). He was 5-8 in the last two games and is now at .813 (174-214), ranking 10th â?¦
- Chris Parker entered the season with the 6th-best field goal pct. in Bruin history (.559, 208-372). He was 8-24 in the last two games and is now at .558 (245-439), still 6th ... He also entered the season with the 12th-best free throw pct. (.805, 169-210). He was 5-7 in the last two games and is now at .803 (204-254), still 12th ...
* NWC Stats: Six Bruins Among Latest League Leaders
Where the Bruins rank in the latest Northwest Conference stats (thru Dec. 6):
Scoring Offense - 7th (74.4)
Scoring Defense - 4th (73.6)
Scoring Margin - 6th (+0.9)
Field Goal Pct. - 4th (.482)
Field Goal Pct. Defense - 3rd (.426)
3-Pt Field Goals - 8th (5.71)
3-Pt Field Goal Pct. - 3rd (.400)
3-Pt Field Goal Pct. Defense - 9th (.397)
Free Throw Pct. - 7th (.696)
Rebounding Offense - 6th (34.0)
Rebounding Defense - 2nd (34.1)
Rebounding Margin - 6th (-0.1)
Assists - 7th (13.71)
Blocked Shots - 5th (2.00, T)
Steals - 8th (6.00)
Turnover Margin - 7th (-3.00)
Assist/Turnover Ratio - 8th (0.73:1)
- Chris Parker is 10th in scoring (15.6), 11th in rebounding (6.1), 12th in free throw pct. (.795), 13th in field goal pct. (.552) ...
- Phil Heu-Weller is 5th in scoring (17.9), 6th in 3-pt field goal pct. (.447), 9th in 3-pt field goals (2.43), 18th in rebounding (4.9, T) ...
- Brent Satern is 3rd in assists (6.00), 7th in steals (1.86), 13th in assist/turnover ratio (0.98:1), 16th in scoring (14.0) ...
- Brady Strutz is 7th in assists (3.71), 9th in blocked shots (0.86), 9th in assist/turnover ratio (1.13:1), 13th in rebounding (5.7) ....
- Taylor Martin is 18th in rebounding (4.9, T) ...
- Mark Metzler is 13th in steals ...
Click here for the latest NWC Statistics.
* The Wirta Watch: "Biggs" Closing in on 600 Straight Games
Mike "Biggs" Wirta, George Fox's statistical guru who saw his 1,000th Bruin men's basketball game on the final day of last season vs. Willamette on Feb. 18, continues to add to his remarkable streaks of attendence. With the Bruins' two games this past week at Puget Sound and Northwest, he has now seen 1,007 GFU men's games (49.5% of all 2,035 games in the team's 103 seasons of competition). He has seen 595 straight games, home and road, and has worked 431 in a row at home, not missing a home game since 1972 when he was in military service. A member of the GFU Sports Hall of Fame Class of 1998, he also serves on the Hall of Fame Committee as its resident historian, calls statistics for the women's games, and keeps the Bruins' baseball scorebook. He was the GFU Volunteer of the Year in 1988, and inducted into the NAIA District 2 Hall of Fame in 1994.