CKSR (Men's Basketball Wins at Manchester/Kayla Engelhard Named MIAA Women's Basketball Player of the Week/Dan Gelderloos Previews Calvin Winter Invitational)

CALVIN KNIGHT SPORTS REPORT FOR NOV. 20, 2012

Men's Basketball Wins at Manchester;
Kayla Engelhard Named MIAA Women's Basketball Player of the Week;
Dan Gelderloos Previews Calvin Winter Invitational

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Story by Mitch Blankespoor
MANCHESTER, IN – The Calvin College men’s basketball team traveled to
Manchester to take on the Spartans of Manchester University Tuesday night in a
Great Lakes regional contest. Calvin defeated Manchester 87-63 to improve to
6-0 on the season.
Both teams scored six of the first 12 points. Junior center Tyler Kruis
(Grandville/Calvin Christian) had four of the first six Calvin points. The
game was tied again 15-15 at the 14:04 mark. Then both teams locked up on
defense. Three field goals were made in the next six minutes.
Calvin trailed 20-19 with 9:35 to go in the first half. Calvin scored the next
nine points to lead 28-20. The Spartans cut the gap to two points, 30-28, on
two free throws from sophomore guard Greg Flores (Hammond, IN/Morton).
The Knights then opened up the game, going on a 15-2 run to end the half
leading 45-32.
Calvin shot 46.3 percent from the floor in the first half. The Spartans shot
35.5 percent.
Manchester cut Calvin’s lead to single digits in the first minute of the second
half. Two jumpers from Calvin senior Tom Snikkers (Hudsonville/Unity
Christian) and one from sophomore Tyler Dykstra (Holland/Holland Christian)
pushed the lead back to 15. The Knights never looked back. Calvin’s lead grew
to as many as 26 with less than a minute to play.
Four Knights scored in double figures. Senior guard Bryan Powell
(Wyoming/Wyoming Park) led Calvin with 13 points. Snikkers fell one rebound
short of a double-double ending the game with 12 points and nine rebounds.
Sophomores Jordan Brink (Dyer, IN/Illiana Christian) and Dykstra had ten points
apiece. Sophomore Dan Stout (Escondido, CA/Calvin Christian) chipped in a
career-high nine points off the bench.
“Anytime you can go into an opponent’s gym and get an in-region win is huge,”
said Calvin head coach Kevin Vande Streek after the game. “That being said, we
need to improve our effort on the defensive side of the ball.”
Calvin shot 47.1 percent from the field in the contest, including 8 of 21
behind the three point arc.
The Spartans shot 38.3 percent and were led by Flores and sophomore guard Silas
Sims (Hope, IN/Hauser) who scored 18 and 17 points respectively.
Calvin is now 6-0 for the first time since the 1999-2000 season. The Knights
will travel to Wheaton, Ill. this weekend for the annual CCIW-MIAA Classic.
Calvin will face Carthage (WI) on Friday at 6:00 p.m. CST and host Wheaton at
8:00 p.m. CST on Saturday.
MIAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association has named
Calvin guard Kayla Engelhard its Player of the Week in women’s basketball for
games played through Nov. 25.
Engelhard, a sophomore from Unionville (Saginaw Valley Lutheran HS), averaged
19 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in leading the Knights to three
consecutive wins for the week. She scored a career-high 37 points and added
seven rebounds as Calvin rallied from a 10-point deficit with less than two
minutes remaining in regulation time for an 84-75 overtime win at Thomas More,
Ky., and followed with 14 points and four assists the next night in a 76-48
victory over Centre, Ky. She was named the Most Valuable Player of the Thomas
More tournament. Engelhard, who made 54 percent of her shots from the field
(21 of 39) and 82 percent from the line (14 of 17) for the week, is being
honored as Player of the Week for the first time in her career.
CALVIN WINTER INVITATIONAL
Calvin will host the fourth annual Calvin Winter Swimming and Diving
Invitational this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Calvin Sports Information
Office recently caught up with Calvin head swim coach Dan Gelderloos to preview
the competition as well as get an update on the Calvin swimming and divinprogram as a whole. The audio interview can be found here: Dan Gelderloos
Winter Invitational Preview
Received on Wed Nov 28 00:35:10 2012