ALVA, Okla.- Northwestern Oklahoma State University men’s basketball dropped a tough loss against out-of-conference opponent Newman University Saturday afternoon in Wichita, Kansas. Newman’s record improved to 3-1 while the Rangers dropped to 1-2.
The Rangers traveled for their first away game against the Jets and struggled to find a rhythm. Newman, who has shown talent this year pulled to an early lead and never let go as they snatched the win with a final score of 65-53. Junior transfer Parrish Hewitt lead the team with 16 points, six rebounds, and went 10-13 from the free-throw line.
Newman started off quick and fast as they shot to an early 10-point lead and continued to tack onto that lead throughout the first half. The Rangers were only 1-6 from behind the arc with a 33.33% field goal percentage from the whole court. Two made free-throws from Hewitt got Northwestern back to within eight points with 9:23 left in the first half, but the Jets took off from there. Newman was able to pull away to an 18-point lead as the headed into halftime, with a score of 40-22.
The Rangers defense improved tremendously in the second half of the game as they held Newman to 38.46% from the field with zero points scored from beyond the three-point line. The Jets reached their highest lead of 19-points with fifteen minutes left in the second half. The Black-and-Red were unable to cut closer than 10-points off the Jet’s lead throughout the whole second half despite their best efforts in the last few minutes of the game.
The Jets outscored the Rangers on multiple fronts as they had an astounding 24 points from their bench alone while the Black-and-Red only tallied four. Another large difference was the point margin of points off turnovers. The jets tallied 15 to the Ranger’s eight. Northwestern did, however, lead in points off a fast break with nine to the Jet’s four.
Notable players include Hewitt who was mentioned earlier as well as returner Jack Peck who had 14 points, as he went 2-2 from the three-point line and 4-6 from the field. Jaedon Whitfield and Nate Bailey earned eight and seven points respectively in the match-up with Whitfield tallying 7 rebounds of his own.
Northwestern will start Great American Conference play against top ranked Southern Nazarene on Thursday, Nov. 21st. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. as the Rangers follow the Lady Rangers game at 5:30 p.m.
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