Rangers Overcome Poor Shooting in 61-52 Defeat of Colorado College

Denver, Colo.: The Regis University men's basketball team overcame a cold shooting night, 36.7 percent, to dispense of a scrappy Colorado College team 61-52 in non-conference action.  The Rangers were able to stifle the Tiger offense into 36.2 percent shooting and 17 turnovers.

Regis (4-3) was able to stymie Colorado College (5-2) leading scorer Nick Rose to just 11 points, well below his season average of 23 points per game.  He was just 4-of-14 from the floor and 1-of-6 from three-point range.

Colorado College took an early lead in the game jumping out to a 9-2 lead.  Jarrell Sweet, who led Colorado College with 14 points, put the Tigers up by eight points (22-14) with 8:18 remaining in the first half.  Regis kept chipping away at the lead and went on a 12-3 run in the last 7:45 of the first half and a layup by junior Jordan Martinez-Doublin with 30 seconds remaining put Regis up for the first time 26-25.

The lead see-sawed for most of the second half until went on a 9-0 run from the 6:55 mark of the second half until two free throws by Rose with 1:36 remaining in the game.  Regis was able to keep a five to nine point lead over the remaining 1:36 to come away with a 61-52 win.

Regis was able to out-rebound Colorado College 45-42 but were dismal from the free throw line at just 14-for-25 (56 percent).  Colorado College was even worse at 6-of-12 from the charity stripe.

Senior Matt Rosinski led the way in scoring with 24 points.  Junior Curtis Mitchell came off the bench to chip in with nine points.  Sophomore Chris Johansen had a career-high 10 rebounds to go along with eight points, while fellow sophomore Myron Sanders also chipped in with eight points and snared a career-high eight rebounds.

The Rangers will travel north to play Upper Iowa in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday, Dec. 18.

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