CALDWELL, Idaho – Facing the top scoring team in the Cascade Conference, the College of Idaho held rival Eastern Oregon 40-points below their season scoring average, extending their win streak to 10 with a 67-58 victory inside the J.A. Albertson Activities Center.
The No. 3-ranked Coyotes (16-3, 9-0 CCC) held EOU to 32-percent shooting on the night – using a 6-0 run late in the contest to stop an EOU upset bid.
Ricardo Time scored 15 points with 10 rebounds and
Ivory Miles-Williams added 13 points and 10 boards in the victory.
The Mountaineers (9-9, 3-6) opened the game on a 11-4 run, capped by a steal and dunk from Landon Jones, but the Coyotes held EOU without a made field goal for a 5-minute stretch. Tim hit a 3-pointer and scored off a steal of an inbounds pass – fueling a 12-0 run that gave the Yotes their first lead.
Post Jarek Schetzle kept Eastern close, scoring 15 of his game-high 24 points in the first half, scoring off a lob late in the period to pull the Mounties within 27-26. In the waning seconds, Time banked home a 65-foot heave from in front of the C of I bench – extending the Yotes lead to four at the break.
EOU used a 7-2 run midway through the second half to take their final lead at 49-48 – before the Yotes cranked up the defensive pressure – holding the Mountaineers without a made field goal for the next five minutes. Time gave C of I the lead for good with two free throws, with
Nate Bruneel tapping home a missed
Jake Bruner runner. Bruneel added two free throws, with
Talon Pinckney providing the exclamation point with a steal and lay-up to push the margin to 56-50.
Bruneel finished with 12 points and six rebounds, with
Jalen Galloway scoring 11. Pinckney had nine points, six rebounds and a season-high six steals. C of I held a 48-40 rebound edge and won despite shooting just 5-of-23 from 3-point range.
Jones and Max McCullough each had 12 points for Eastern, with Schetzle leading all players with 17 rebounds. It was the first time the Mounties had been held under 42-percent shooting from the floor in 2019-20 and the first time the squad had scored fewer than 70 points.
C of I continues their homestand this weekend, hosting Walla Walla for a pair of games – Saturday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
