{"id":6862,"date":"2018-01-19T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2018-01-19T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:09:12","slug":"wolfpack-gain-maintain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolfpack-gain-maintain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves gain and maintain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simson Garcia | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>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\u2019s, getting the decisive victory, 79-71. They maintained their successful week in Seattle defeating Seattle Pacific, 83-79. <\/span>
\n<\/span>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. <\/span>
\n<\/span>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. <\/span>
\n<\/span>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. <\/span>
\n<\/span>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.<\/span>
\n<\/span>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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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