Men's Basketball Edged in Overtime by Kohawks

Senior Jeff Janssen (Fairmont, Minn./Fairmont) buried a three-pointer with just under five seconds to go to force overtime, but it was Coe College (15-7, 9-4 IIAC) converting all six of its free-throw attempts down the stretch in overtime to hold off the Beavers, 77-74, on Saturday night inside of Siebens Fieldhouse.

The Beavers trailed by seven at half, but came out of the gate to start the second half on an 11-2 run to take a 37-35 lead on freshman Cole Darrow’s (Glenwood, Iowa/Glenwood) bucket five minutes in.  Neither team was able to build any larger than three the rest of the way, and after Coe extended its lead to three with a pair of free-throws, Janssen buried a three in front of the BVU bench to square things up at 65-65.

Coe nearly won the game in regulation, but its half court shot rimmed out to force overtime.

The Kohawks built a 71-67 lead with 3:29 to play in the extra frame before senior Michael Elming (Johnston, Iowa/Johnston) got the Beavers back within a point with a three-pointer with just over a minute to play.  Coe then went back up by three with 15 seconds left, and made two free-throws with under 10 seconds to go to keep it at that same margin, as the three-point attempt by BVU at the buzzer came up short.

Junior Wes Nordquist (Adel, Iowa/ADM) had a monumental night for BVU, scoring a game-high 27 points and grabbing 11 rebounds, while also surpassing the 1,000 career point mark.  He becomes only the 10^th player in program history to have scored at least 1,000 career points and grab at least 500 career rebounds.  Elming and Doug Bissen (Earling, Iowa/Harlan) each followed with 11 points, as Bissen also grabbed nine rebounds.

The Beavers finished the game shooting nearly 47 percent from the field, despite going just 4-of-15 from downtown.  They also held a slim rebounding edge at 36-35.

David Mataloni scored 19 points to help lead Coe.

The Beavers now stand at 12-9 overall (8-4 IIAC) and will go back on the road this Wednesday night when they travel to Simpson College (9-11, 6-6 IIAC) for an 8:00pm tip-off.

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