It's hard to shoot 62% from the floor, and 53% from three point range, and lose. That's what UW-Whitewater, ranked sixth in Division III, showed UW-River Falls in a 90-68 win Saturday afternoon at the Kachel Gym in Williams Center in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
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UW-W is 11-2 overall and 3-1 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
The Warhawks jumped out to an 11-0 start and never looked back. The closest the Falcons got the rest of the way was seven, 26-19 on a layup by Brady Hannigan with 8:53 left in the first half. Whitewater led by at last twenty points, with the exception of a UW-RF basket to cut the margin to 19, the entire second half.
The UW-W guard tandem Myles McKay (Menomonee Falls/Menomonee Falls) and Matt Goodwin (Milwaukee/King) both scored 15 points in the first half, and wound up the game's leading scorers with McKay netting 24 and Goodwin 20. McKay hit 10-13 shots from the field, including 4-5 three-pointers. Goodwin was 7-12 and 6-11, including 5-8 in the first half, from three point range.
Whitewater's inside game complimented the guards. Senior forward Kori Vernon (Madison/Memorial) had a double-double with 13 points and a game high 10 rebounds, and forward Billy Kolinske (Waukesha/Catholic Memorial) and center Dustin Mitchell (Lac Du Flambeau/Lakeland) added 13 and 11 points, respectively. Point guard Phil Negri (Minocgua/Lakeland) did not score in the game, but had a team season high nine assists and just two turnovers in twenty-five minutes.
UW-W coach Pat Miller used fourteen players in the game.
The Falcons, 8-5 overall and 2-2 in the WIAC, were led by sophomore forward Jake Voelz, who scoreed 18 Voelz hit 7-8 shots from the floor. Junior guard Sheldon Spencer contributed 10 points, and sophomore guard Jontae Koonkaew dished out a team-high eight assists to go along with nine points.
Whitewater also won the battle on the boards, out-rebounding the Falcons 36-24.
UW-W will host UW-La Crosse Wednesday at 7:00 in Kachel Gym of Williams Center.
For additional information: Pat Miller, UW-W coach
