Wesmen Game Results Nov.18 - Nov. 19

Friday, November 18, 2005

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Women's Basketball vs VICTORIA 
WESMEN 55  Victoria 54

WESMEN SURVIVE SCARE TO DEFEAT VIKES

The Wesmen women's team can take this victory and run. The Wesmen escaped with a narrow 55-54 victory over the University of Victoria Vikes Friday evening at the Duckworth Centre. Winnipeg had complete control of the game at halftime leading by a score of 30-17 at halftime. The second half was a completely different story. The Wesmen carried the play and  built a 20 point lead at 51-31 with about ten minutes left to play in the game. Wesmen Head Coach Tanya McKay was able to rest her starters and give her bench some playing time, but that is when the Vikes chipped away at the Wesmen lead. Victoria drained back-back three pointers to cut the lead to 51-37. McKay inserted her starters back in the game but missed shots by the Wesmen and key baskets by the Vikes allowed Victoria to go on a 17-4 run to pull to within a point as time expired. McKay was dissapointed in seeing her team almost throw the game away. "We have to learn how to put teams away, I am dissapointed in the team today, hopefully they will learn from this", said McKay. Stefanie Timmersman led the Wesmen with 15 points, while Uzo Asagwara scored 14 points. The Wesmen victory improves their record to 6-1. The two teams will face each other once again Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

Men's Basketball vs VICTORIA 
WESMEN 55    Victoria 84

WESMEN BLOWN OUT BY VIKES

The Wesmen men's team came out ice cold and it hurt them on this evening. The Wesmen fell behind 14-2 just six minutes into the game as the Victoria Vikes went on to beat the Wesmen 84-55 in front of 1000 fans at the Duckworth Centre Friday night. The Wesmen struggled out of the gate missing their first seven shots and allowing the Vikes to score from all over the court. Winnipeg was able to get close in the first half as Erfan Nasajpour, who was the best Wesmen player on this evening engineered an 8-4 run to pull the Wesmen to within four points at 18-14. The Vikes carried the play for the remainder of the half as they built a 44-24 halftime lead. In the second half the Vikes showed no mercy as they outscored the Wesmen 40-31 to roll onto the lopsided victory. Nasajpour led the Wesmen with 20 points. The loss by the Wesmen is their third in a row and drops their record below .500 at 3-4. The Wesmen and Vikes will meet Saturday afternnon at 4:00 p.m. at the Duckworth Centre.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

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Women's Basketball vs VICTORIA
WESMEN 56  Victoria 41

WESMEN DEFEAT VIKES DESPITE SLOW START

The Winnipeg Wesmen got off to a bad start but rebounded to defeat the Victoria Vikes 56-41 Saturday afternoon at the Duckworth Centre. The Vikes built a 13-0 lead on the Wesmen just five minutes into the game. The Wesmen after settling down went on a 10-0 run midway thru the first half to close the gap to 15-12. First year guard Randie Gibson drained a big  three pointer to tie the score at 16-16 as the Wesmen went on to grab a 21-20 halftime lead. In the second half it was all Wesmen as they never trailed while building up leads of more than 20 points on three occassions. Fourth year guard Uzo Asagwara led the Wesmen with 25 points while Stefanie Timmersman was unstoppable under the glass grabbing a game high 11 rebounds. Gibson drained three-three pointers for the Wesmen. The victory improves the Wesmen's record to 7-1. The team will have a bye next week and will next see action on Dec 2&3 when they travel to Vancouver to take on the UBC Thunderbirds.

Men's Basketball vs VICTORIA 
WESMEN 61  Victoria 75

WESMEN SHOW MORE LIFE IN LOSS TO VIKES

The Wesmen showed more life but the results were the same. Despite a better effort the Wesmen dropped a 75-61 decision to the Victoria Vikes in front of 1000 spectators at the Duckworth Centre Saturday afternoon. Unlike yesterday 's game when the Wesmen were down by 20 points at the half, this game they only trailed the Vikes 38-35 at halftime. In the second half the Wesmen looked to run out of steam as they watched the Vikes explode for 37 points and connecting on 57% of their shots in the half. Winnipeg, who shot an amazing 56% from the field in the first half struggled connecting on only 9-of-31 shots from the field. Dan Shynkaryk had a great game scoring 25 points on 10-of-15 shooting. Erfan Nasajpour, who leads the Canada West conference in assists had seven in the contest. Dave Crook and his squad will have a bye next week and will next see action on Dec 2&3 when they tackle the UBC Thunderbirds in Vancouver.


Men's Volleyball vs WPG.ALL STARS  (Exhibition)
WESMEN def Wpg. All Stars 3-2 (25-19,26-28,20-25,25-18,15-7)