PURDUE NORTHWEST 99, PARKSIDE 65
Parkside men's basketball ended the 2019-20 season with a road loss Thursday night, as Purdue Northwest shot an incredible 57.8-percent from the floor and hit 16 3-pointers in the game. After scoring 57 points in the second half, six players on the Pride had multiple 3-pointers against the Rangers, who were led in scoring by freshman
Vinson Sigmon Jr. with 10 points.
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HEAR FROM COACH REIGEL
"Sometimes seasons just don't go how you planned and that's definitely the case this year," head coach
Luke Reigel said. "We were put through the ringer the past few weeks. But in tough times you really find out who has the character to get you back to your winning ways. We will get working on next year tomorrow morning and plan on bouncing back in a big way."
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Rangers and Pride battled evenly for the majority of the first half, with the teams trading the lead back-and-forth for the first 10:00. A Sigmon Jr. 3-pointer made it a 29-28 Pride lead with 4:58 to play, but PNW outscored the Rangers 13-5 the rest of the way and took a 42-34 lead into halftime.
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PNW was on-fire in the second half, starting on a 10-0 run and outscoring Parkside 57-31 in the second half.
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A LOOK AT THE BOX SCORE
Sigmon led the team with 10 points and tied redshirt-sophomore
Brandon Hau with six rebounds. Redshirt-senior
Joe Borcia had nine points while freshman
Solomon Oraegbu, redshirt-junior
Jonah Matulle and senior
Jonathan Morrobel all had seven points.
The Pride went 12-of-18 from beyond the arc in the second half, and won both the rebounding and turnover battle.Â
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END OF 2019-20 SEASON
Parkside finished out the 2019-20 season at 10-18 overall and 6-13 in the GLIAC. The Rangers will graduate
Jonathan Morrobel,
Joe Borcia and
Linwood Lee.
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The Parkside women's basketball team earned the No. 4 seed in the GLIAC Tournament and will host No. 5 seeded Northern Michigan on Tuesday night at De Simone Gymnasium.
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