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Riley Farris 1.4
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FLC junior Riley Farris scored a game-high 23 points in Saturday's loss to Chadron State.
83
Winner Chadron St. Chad 3-10,2-5 RMAC
71
Fort Lewis FLC 10-3,4-3 RMAC
Winner
Chadron St. Chad
3-10,2-5 RMAC
83
Final
71
Fort Lewis FLC
10-3,4-3 RMAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Chadron St. Chad 38 45 83
Fort Lewis FLC 24 47 71

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | David Wilson, Assistant AD-Communications

Offense struggles in Skyhawks' 83-71 loss to Chadron State

DURANGO, Colorado — The Fort Lewis College men's basketball team suffered a minor setback Saturday, unable to overcome a slow start in an 83-71 home loss to a talented Chadron State College team.

The Eagles (3-10 overall, 2-5 RMAC), who had three losses of three points or less weighing on their resume entering the evening, had four different players finish in double-figures on Saturday and were able to capitalize on a hot start to put FLC behind the 8-ball, 22-11, midway through the first half.

"I thought Chadron just won the game. I thought they were better in every aspect of the game and thought they were better coached than us," said Fort Lewis head men's basketball coach, Bob Pietrack. "They deserved to win the game and we didn't play well enough to win."

Saturday's struggles started on the offensive end for the Skyhawks (10-3 overall, 4-3 RMAC) as FLC shot a season low 39% (23-of-59) and were 18-of-30 (60%) from the foul line.

"When you don't make shots, offensively, and you miss free throws it zaps energy," Pietrack said. "We had no rhythm, didn't make shots, didn't get calls and didn't make free throws. But we have the youngest team in the league; we're going to have growing pains as we go."

Redshirt junior forward Riley Farris led all players with a game-high 23 points, extending his streak to 13 straight games with 20 or more points to start the 2019-2020 season.

Freshman guard Akuel Kot was the second Skyhawk in double-figures with 13 points and redshirt sophomore forward Brenden Boatwright continued his solid play off the bench with nine points and four rebounds in his nine minutes.

After trailing by as many as 21 points at 47-26 with 17:00 remaining, the Skyhawks were able to inch back within 12 at the 1:16 mark but ran out of time in their comeback attempt.

Freshman point guard Junior Garbrah finished with eight points, and the starting guard duo of Logan Hokanson and Will Wittman each chipped in six points to lead FLC. Wittman would also add a team-high seven rebounds in his 35 minutes.

Fort Lewis will look to rebound next weekend when it begins a four-game road swing with matchups against the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and Colorado School of Mines.

"The season is a journey. If you're going to enjoy the wins then you have to understand you're not going to win every game, even though you want to," Pietrack said. "We've got to learn from this and just try to keep getting better. The message to the guys was we'll stick together and live to fight another day. Sometimes you get beat and that's what happened (Saturday)."
 
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