Lakeland College

Muskies run past Buccaneers in home opener

Athletics - posted on 11/22/2011

Junior forward Jake Schwarz scored a game-high 33 points and sophomore forward Justin Ward recorded a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Lakeland College men's basketball team to a 94-83 win against Beloit College Tuesday night in the Moose and Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.

The Muskies (1-1) and the Buccaneers (0-3) went back and forth for the majority of the first half, but Lakeland was able to take a four point lead at half. Schwarz (Sheboygan) hit a 3-pointer with 2:20 left in the half to give Lakeland its first lead, 35-31

Lakeland never relinquished its lead and went up by as much as 20 in the second half. Beloit was able to cut the lead to 10 with 1:43 left to play, but the hot-shooting Muskies hit eight of their last 10 shots for a convincing non-conference win.

Junior point guard Josh Regal (Suring) hit four-of-eight shots from the field and scored 20 points. Senior Jack Ridgway (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and sophomore James Oshkeshequoam (Shawano) scored 10 points apiece, while Ridgway went a perfect six-for-six from the free throw line.

For the game, Lakeland shot 45 percent from the field and an impressive 81.1 percent from the charity stripe.

See what head coach Aaron Aanonsen thought about the team's efforts tonight: http://youtu.be/8cJp4TR2q7I

See what Schwarz and Ward say about their performances: http://youtu.be/U0EHzUg4OzM

The Muskies return to action on Nov. 29 as they open Northern Athletics Conference play at Maranatha Baptist Bible College for a 7 p.m. game in Watertown, Wis.

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