Simson Garcia | Sports Editor
A fierce Wolves team clawed their way to two wins this past week on Jan. 11 and 13. Improving their win-loss mark to 15-1 overall and 8-1 in GNAC play, they first played at Saint Martin’s, getting the decisive victory, 79-71. They maintained their successful week in Seattle defeating Seattle Pacific, 83-79.
Marching in first were the Saints with a 10-4 record, ranked fourth overall in the GNAC. Leading the charge, was Saints’s guard Luke Chavez with 17.2 points per game while forward Tavian Henderson is shooting 78 percent on the season, a top mark in the GNAC.
Senior forward Tanner Omlid led the Wolfpack, however, running the score up to a 41-30 lead after a 15-0 run early in the first half.
The Saints came back in the second half and kept biting at the lead, cutting the margin to as low as three at one point.
A 19-point, six-rebound, three-assist, two-block and two-steal stat line on the night by Omlid as well as 24 points in bench production kept the Saints at bay.
In front of the Saints in the GNAC standings is the Seattle Pacific Falcon squad that landed on Jan. 13 sporting a 5.6 rebounding margin versus its opponents.
Omlid again was everywhere on the stat board. The second game was a mirror image of the first as the Wolves led by double-digits for most of the half and pinning the Falcons, 51-40. The Falcons were a different team, however, and managed to pull ahead, 79-78, with a minute remaining in the game.
Wolves forward JJ Chirnside came up big on the defensive end grabbing two clutch steals and a block in waning seconds. Omlid finished the night with 20 points.
The Wolves head back home, first in a red out night opposite Central Washington on Jan. 18 and an alumni night game against Northwest Nazarene on Jan. 20.
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