Box Score

FOREST GROVE – Pacific looked poised to play spoiler for Lewis & Clark's playoff chances Saturday half, but another dramatic comeback in as many nights against the Boxers gave the Pioneers a 70-57 victory in Northwest Conference men's basketball action at the Stoller Center.
 
Thanks in great part to a 17-point first half performance from Colin Wester (Jr., Sherwood, Ore.), the Boxers sat themselves firmly in position for the upset with a 32-23 halftime lead.  The Pioneers, with their playoff hopes in their own hands, came back with fire in the second half to outscore the Boxers 47-25 to cruise to the victory.
 
Wester led all scorers with 21 points, connecting on 9 of 18 from the field, and pulled down eight rebounds to go along with two assists, five steals and a monster first half block on the Pioneers' Caron Rayford.  Charles Mosley (Jr., Hillsboro, Ore.) finished with 14 points.
 
James Hollins led three Pioneers' players in double figures with 17 points, which included 8 of 10 from the free throw line.  Marcus Wells added 16 points while Ross Erickson scored 11 to go with a team-high six rebounds.
 
Pacific finishes the season in a three-way tie for seventh place in the NWC with Linfield and Willamette at 3-13 and at 9-16 overall.  Lewis & Clark ends the regular season with a 14-11 record and tied for or fourth in the NWC with Pacific Lutheran at 9-7.  The Pioneers' earn the No. 4 spot in next week's NWC Tournament by holding the tiebreaker over the Lutes.
 
The first half began and ended as the Colin Wester show as the junior scored the Boxers' first six points before David Berney (Jr., Bellingham, Wash.) opened up a six-point lead, 10-4, with his short-range jumper at the 15:17 mark.  The Pioneers would come back to within two points on five occasions the rest of the period, but would never be able to get past the Boxers in the opening 20 minutes.
 
Following Ross Erickson's lay-in with 5:35 left, the Boxers went on a 7-0 run to close the half.  Mosley opened the run with his jumper on the team's next possession and Bowser closed it out with his tip-in of Mosley's missed lay-in with 2:14 to go, allowing the Boxers a 32-23 halftime lead.
 
The possibility of being left behind for the NWC playoffs fired up the Pioneers coming out of the locker room as they opened the second half on a 12-4 tear, closing to within 36-35 on Bradley Carter's lay-in at the 14:59 mark.  L&C took their first lead of the game a minute later on P.J. Taylor's three-pointer, the first of five lead changes over the next three minutes.
 
Taylor gave the Pioneers the lead for good with his lay-up with 9:48 to go as L&C outscored the Boxers 27-15 the rest of the way.  Hollins pushed the lead to eight points with his jumper at the 4:51 mark and took their biggest lead of the game, 66-52, on a Marcus Wells three-point play with 1:44 left.
 
Tonight's game marked the end of a career for two four-year members of the Pacific program.  Robby Babek (Sr., Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Carson Bartlett (Sr., St. Helens, Ore.) were honored prior to the game.  Bartlett missed the entire season with a knee injury incurred on the first day of practice.