VICTORIA - It was a shootout at Ken & Kathy Shields Court at McKinnon Gymnasium on Friday Jan. 13, as the Fraser Valley Cascades improved to 8-3 on the season by defeating the UVic Vikes 70-57, scoring 11 of the game's 17 three-pointers to secure just their second road victory of the season.
BOX SCORE
With the loss, the Vikes drop below .500, and sit at 5-6. UVic hosts Fraser Valley again on Saturday night Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.
UVic received another gritty performance from #
Chelsea McMullen# of Prince George, B.C., who netted a team-high 14 points, adding six rebounds, while #
Debbie Yeboah# of Winnipeg and #
Cassandra Goodis# of Penticton, B.C., scored 11 points each. Fruitvale, B.C., native #
Sarah Semeniuk# pulled down nine rebounds and was one-for-eight from the floor, finishing with three points.
Four Fraser Valley players finished in double-digit scoring.
Aieisha Luyken of Mission, B.C., scored a game-high 21 points for the Cascades with four-for-11 shooting from outside the arc.
Sarah Wierks of Chilliwack, B.C., added 13 points and 14 rebounds along with three blocks.
Nicole Wierks, Sarah's older sister, added 12 points as did fifth-year senior
Tessa Klassen of Winnipeg.
The Cascades opened up with an 8-0 run in just over a minute, forcing Vikes bench-boss #Rich Chambers# to call a timeout. Fraser Valley extended the lead to 10-0, but the UVic clawed back as they do so often, making late-possession shots to cut the lead to 13-10, before Fraser Valley scored two threes on the next two possessions to extend the lead to 19-10 and regain control. They led 22-14 after the first.
UVic cut the lead to 22-18 before another long-range bomb by Luyken made it 25-18. In all, 18 of Fraser Valley's first 29 points came off three-pointers in a 29-20 lead midway through the second quarter.
Some great outside shooting from #
Jordyn Newman# of White Rock, B.C., and some great drives by Yeboah and Goodis kept the Vikes close, but the outside shooting proved to be too much in the first half for the host, as Fraser Valley led 40-30 at the half.
After a couple of big stops, a Newman three-pointer cut the lead to 42-37 again, but then Fraser Valley responded once again with a three of their own to restore an eight-point cushion at 45-37 midway through the third.
The Vikes cut the lead to 48-46 three fastbreak baskets - two by Renfrew and another from Goodis - and outscored the Cascades 18-12 in the third quarter. But the two-point spread was as close as UVic could get.
Untimely turnovers and the inability to control the boards hurt UVic in the fourth, as the Cascades started to get hot again from outside and led by as much 15 points to win.
SCORING SUMMARY
(At Ken & Kathy Shields Court at McKinnon Gymnasium, Victoria, B.C.)
1 2 3 4 - T
UFV 22 18 12 18 - 70
UVIC 14 16 18 9 - 57
Top Scorers: UFV: Aieisha Luyken 21 points; Sarah Wierks 13 points, 14 rebounds, 3 blocks / UVIC:
Chelsea McMullen 14 points, six rebounds;
Debbie Yeboah and
Cassandra Goodis 11 points each;
Sarah Semeniuk 9 rebounds
NOTE: McMullen was named as the Applebee's Player of the Game for her performance.
