Yotes Score 130 in Season Opening Win Over NW Indian
CALDWELL, Idaho –
Scott Garson picked up his 100th coaching victory at the College of Idaho in record-breaking style, setting a J.A. Albertson Activities Center scoring mark in a 130-67 rout of Northwest Indian College in Game 2 of the 31st Annual Taco Bell Shoot-Out.
The 130 points equaled the second highest scoring total in the 105-year history of the program – as the 1990-91 team scored 132 points in O'Connor Field House against Warner Pacific and 130 points in Portland against the same WPC squad. The Akron Wingfoots AAU team set the facility record during the 2003 Shoot-Out, scoring 127 points in a win over Menlo College. It was the Yotes largest victory margin since a 110-45 win over Patten College in 1998.
The game was never in doubt, as the Yotes (1-0) used a 10-2 run – including a
Keun Palu-Thompson 3-point play and a
Nate Bruneel triple, to take a 25-14 lead. Jaloni Pepper scored 21 of his game-high 30 points to try and keep the Eagles (0-4) close, but C of I rattled off 13-straight points – including consecutive triples from
Justin Saunders,
Gibson Berryhill and
Roosevelt Adams, to push the margin to 43-21.
Leading 59-42 early in the second half, C of I put the game away with a monster 40-8 run – with Adams and Saunders each draining a pair of treys in the run. The lead would grow to as many as 65 in the victory.
All 14 Coyote players scored at least four points in the victory – with five players in double-figures. Bruneel had 16 points in his C of I debut, with
Aziz Leeks recording 15 points and 12 rebounds. Adams had 14 points,
Tanner Kramer had career-highs with 13 points, six rebounds and five assists, with Palu-Thompson adding 10 points, five boards and four assists. Point-guard
Talon Pinckney had eight points and a career-high 11 assists – as the Yotes made 56-percent of their field goals and had 30 assists and 52 made field goals.
Pepper made 11-of-22 field goals, including four 3-pointers, to lead NWIC, with both Allen Tatsey and Kacy Green each scoring 10. After hitting 5-of-11 shots from distance in the first half, the Eagles went 0-for-8 in the final 20 minutes.
C of I closes out tournament play tomorrow night, hosting Ottawa University of Arizona at 7 p.m. OUAZ dropped a 92-81 decision to Eastern Oregon in the first game of the day.