Men's Basketball Drops Road Contest to St. Ambrose
The Purdue University Northwest men’s basketball team dropped a 94-84 decision to Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference opponent St. Ambrose University Saturday afternoon.
The Pride (1-5, 0-2 CCAC) finished the game with four players scoring in double-figures, but the Fighting Bees (1-4, 1-1 CCAC) used a pair of 20-point performances to help push SAU past the Black and Gold.
Sophomore guard Chandler Spring (Covington, Ind./Covington) led the offensive for the Pride with a team-high 19 points while Shereff Knight (Michigan City, Ind./Michigan City) recorded 16 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field.
Torrance Johnson (Chicago Height, Ill./Chicago Hope Academy) finished the day with 14 points and nine rebounds while Max Clifford (Franklin, Ind./Roncalli) chipped in with 13 points.
Purdue Northwest led the game midway through the first half, 24-13, but St. Ambrose was able to create a run of their own, evening the score at 35-35 before taking a 42-35 lead heading in to the break.
St. Ambrose would hold on to their lead for the entire second half which, holding off any comeback efforts from the Pride, defeating the Black and Gold 94-84.
Jacoby Posley led all scorers for St. Ambrose with 24 points on 7-of-11 shooting and eight rebounds while Eric Dust recorded 21 points and eight rebounds.
The Black and Gold shot 51.5 percent from the field, compared to 45.2 percent from SAU, but the Fighting Bees made it to the charity stripe 46 times, connecting on 33 free throws which helped them capture the win over the Pride.
Purdue Northwest returns to action Tuesday night, when the Black and Gold host Olivet Nazarene in a CCAC contest at the Fitness and Recreation Center at 7 p.m. (CT).
PNW Women's Basketball Defeats No.18 St. Ambrose, 96-81, Saturday Afternoon The No.13 Purdue Unviersity Northwest women’s basketball team picked up a big road win over No.18 St. Ambrose University, 96-81, Saturday afternoon in a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference contest.
The Pride (5-2, 2-0 CCAC) took down the Fighting Bees (2-4, 0-2) thanks to a 27 point and 11 rebound performance from Cassidy Deno (Otterbein, Ind./Benton Central).
Senior guard Darien Thompson (Anderson, Ind./Anderson) continued her impressive shooting from beyond the arc with 5 three-point field goals en route to 21 points, three rebounds and three assists.
Junior forward Ellie Michalski (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago) would score a career-high 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting while bringing down eight rebounds to headline the leaders for the Black and Gold.
St. Ambrose would take an early 9-7 lead on the Black and Gold early in the first quarter, but the Pride would answer with an 11-1 run to go up 18-10.
Purdue Northwest would take a 12-point advantage late in the second quarter, after a layup from Katie Wampler (Scottsburg, Ind./Scottsburg), put the Pride up 46-34, before taking a 46-38 lead heading in to the break.
PNW would stop any comeback efforts from the Fighting Bees and come away with their second straight CCAC win of the season.
Purdue Northwest returns to action Tuesday, Nov. 22, when they host Olivet Nazarene at the Fitness and Recreation Center in Hammond, Ind. at 5:00 p.m. (CT).
Purdue Northwest's Cordova Places 149th at NAIA Nationals Purdue University Northwest junior cross country runner Salvador Cordova capped off his 2016 season at the NAIA National Championships Saturday afternoon, finishing 149th out of the 331 runner-field with a time of 26 minutes, 19 seconds.
Cordova (Hammond, Ind./Bishop Noll) who now owns the first and third best-times in PNW history, shaved 22 seconds off his CCAC Championship time of 26:41, and finished this season with a program-best time of 26:10 at the Seminole Valley Stampede in Cedar Rapids, Iowa earlier this year.
“It was a great experience being able to run with some of the best runners in the country,” Cordova said. “I owe it to my family, coaches and team who pushed me to get to this point.”
Cordova made his first trip to the NAIA National Championships as an individual and marked the second-ever men’s Purdue Northwest cross country runner to qualify for the meet, after his cousin, Alex Cordova (Hobart, Ind./Hobart) qualified for the championships last season.
Jackson Thomas won the overall individual race with a time of 23:50 for Bacone University, while Southern Oregon picked up the team title with 122 total points.
The Pride finished seventh overall in the field of 14 this season at the CCAC Conference Championships capped by an all-conference performance from Sal Cordova, the first all-conference in PNW men's cross country history.
PNW Falls to Sixth-Seeded Davenport, 3-1, in NAIA Opening Round The Purdue University Northwest men’s soccer team saw its season come to an end with a valiant effort against sixth-seeded Davenport University, as the Pride fell, 3-1, in the opening round of the NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championships Saturday.
PNW’s (11-6-4) defense did the job in the first half against the high-powered offense of the Panthers (18-2-2), but DU’s early cross from Tyler Collishaw found teammate Brogan Shrimpton on the left side of the box, as his header was able to find the back of the net in just the 10th minute at DU’s Farmer Insurance Athletic Complex.
Purdue Northwest junior Chris Rassel (St. John, Ind./Lake Central) gave the Pride new life early in the second half, though, delivering a stellar strike from 25 yards out on a free kick to tie the game and score a goal against his former team.
But the Panthers, who netted 65 goals during the regular season in 2016, would respond, as Shrimpton finished a rebound off Collishaw’s direct kick to give Davenport back the lead with 14 minutes to play. DU would add the insurance goal seven minutes later on a Jordan Van Oostenbrugge 18-yarder to make it 3-1 for the home team.
The Pride were held to just three shots for the game – Rassel’s score was the lone one on goal – compared to 12 shots for Davenport, five of them on goal.
PNW’s Miguel David (Spring Valley, Calif./Bonita Vista) finished the game with two saves in the setback.
The nationals appearance marked the second-straight for PNW, who fell to Davenport in the NAIA Opening Round for the second-straight season. Both teams will meet again in regular-season play next year, as Davenport and Purdue Northwest begin Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play as NCAA Division II provisional members.
Davenport advances to the Round of 16 in Delray Beach, Fla., where the Panthers will take on the winner of Midland (Neb.) and Baker (Kan.). That match is set for Nov. 29 at the Seacrest Soccer Complex.
