Jacks Roll Past Minnesota Foes

Jacks Roll Past Minnesota Foes

 The Lumberjack Men's Basketball stretched their win streak to three games with wins over Northland Community and Technical College and Minnesota North Itasca by scores of 73-63 and 102-58 respectively.

73-63 Win over Northland

The Jacks steadily grew their lead in the first half, eventually taking a 10-point lead into the halftime break. It was more of the same in the second half as the Jacks lead ballooned to 20+ points. A late run by the Pioneers would see them cut the final deficit to 10 points at a final score of 73-63. Elijah Reynolds led all scores with 20 points off the bench he was joined in double figures by Edward Lual with 17 points.

102-58 Win over Itasca

After a tightly contested first 8 minutes the Jacks broke the game open in the final 12 minutes of the first half outscoring the Vikings 31-12 to close the half to take a 48-29 lead into the locker room. It was more of the same in the second half as DCB outscored Itasca 54-29 in the final 20 minutes. Lual led all scorers and four Lumberjacks in double figures with 20 points. Jaden Arzola scored 19 points and hit 5 3-pointers. MarQuez Tyree poured in 11 off the bench and Reynolds added 10 also coming off the bench. As a team the Jacks shot over 50% from the field and from deep and knocked down a total of 13 3-pointers.

With the win the Jacks see their record improve to 3-2 overall. Next up DCB heads to NDSCS for a classic this weekend Friday they will take on the Valley City State JV team at 3:00p.m. and Saturday they will play Central Community College at 1:00p.m.