The Winnipeg big guns did the heavy lifting in yet another lopsided Wesmen win.
Alberto Gordo,
Kato Jaro,
Elijah Mensah and
Ryan Luke accounted for 89 per cent of the Wesmen scoring as Winnipeg scored a 74-48 men's basketball win over the MacEwan Griffins Saturday night at the Duckworth Centre.
The four veterans combined to score 66 of the team's points as the No. 2-ranked Wesmen remained perfect (4-0) in Canada West play this season.
Gordo, who was 10-for-10 on two-point field goals, led the way with a game-high 24 points, eight rebounds, five steals and four assists. Jaro scored 17 with six assists, Mensah dropped 16 and Luke scored nine with a game-high 11 rebounds.
After handing the Griffins (0-4) a 42-point defeat on Friday night, the Wesmen bullied the visitors again but did so despite their worst shooting effort of the season. The Wesmen made just six of 34 from three, and shot 41.8 per cent from the field. They even struggled at the free throw line, converting only two of their seven attempts.
The Wesmen, who came into the game averaging better than 94 points per game in their first three conference contests, offset that rough night on offence by creating 18 MacEwan turnovers and holding the Griffins to 36.5 per cent from the field.
And for the second straight night, Winnipeg frustrated fifth-year guard Elisha Ampofo. Held to six points on Friday night, Ampofo was 2-for-14 — 0-for7 from three — and finished with five points.
After the Griffins hung tough in the first quarter and even held a 16-9 advantage with under two to play, the Wesmen asserted themselves with an 8-0 run that closed the period and eventually extended into a 17-4 spurt four minutes into the fourth. Winnipeg outscored the Griffins 25-11 in the second and 20-13 in the third, giving the home team the leeway to play rookies through most of the fourth.
Judson Wier's nine points led the Griffins.
The Wesmen hit the road to Regina next weekend to take on the Cougars.
