VICTORIA - A balanced scoring attack, combined with a shutdown performance of the league's top scorer netted the UVic Vikes a dominating 82-54 homecourt win over the no. 7 ranked Saskatchewan Huskies.
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Every player who dressed scored for the Vikes, who went 12 deep and had four scorers reach double-digit totals. #Cyril Indome# led all scorers with a game high 19 points, shooting 7-11. #Jeff Cullen# came off the bench to add 11, and #Zac Andrus# and #Nick Adair# chipped in 10 apiece.
But offence only told half the story for the Vikes. The league's no. 1 ranked defence five years running limited the Huskies to 31 percent shooting and held Saskatchewan star Showron Glover to 14 points. Glover was the Canada West's leading scoring in 2008-09 and entered the contest averaging 30 points per game.
"I thought we had a great team effort, everyone came prepared," said Cullen, a fourth-year guard from Oak Bay. "We had a great week of practice and I think that paid dividends on the way we played. We knew we had two good teams coming in."
Glover made his first shot of the night, a three-pointer right off the opening tip, but Saskatchewan only scored six more points the rest of the quarter and the Vikes opened up a nine-point lead.
The Vikes lead only continued to grow and UVic really put the game out of reach with a run of 20 unanswered points midway through the second half. The Vikes shot 6-8 during their defining run that spanned the end of the third and near the six-minute mark of the fourth, and shot 48 percent overall.
Glover's 14 points led the Huskies, who lost for a second straight night during their Pacific road swing.
The Vikes will wrap-up the first half of the schedule with four road games to close out 2009. Next weekend, UVic will face-off against the Jacob Doerksen-led Trinity Western Spartans in a weekend series at the Langley Event Centre.