Women’s basketball

Saint Martin’s 74, Alaska-Fairbanks 57 – Recap from SMUSaints.com

Angela Gelhar came off the bench and exploded for 20 points including four three pointers to lead Saint Martin’s to a 74-57 win over Alaska-Fairbanks. The Saints move to 4-4 in GNAC play and coupled with a Central Washington loss to Western Washington, they are now tied with Seattle Pacific for fifth place.

Playing without second leading scorer Brooke Paulson and starting point guard Jori Skorpik, Jordyn Richardson stepped up and hit four three pointers of her own and scored 15 points. Chelsea Haskey added 16 points, 12 in the first half as the Saints opened up an 32-23 halftime lead. Mackenzie Taylor scored just two points but hauled in 13 rebounds in the win.

Men’s basketball

Montana State-Billings 77, Saint Martin’s 64 – Box score

Roger O’Neill scored 23 points and pulled down eight rebounds but it wasn’t enough as Montana State-Billings knocked off the Saint Martin’s 77-64. A poor shooting first half proved to the be the difference as the Saints made just nine field goals in the first half and shot just 36% from the field. Meanwhile, the Yellowjackets shot 52% and opened up a 13 point lead, 41-28, at the half.

The Saint Martin’s bench hit just two field goals in the game. Eric Taylor came off the bench to score 11 points on 1-of-10 shooting. He was 9-of-10 from the free throw line. The Saints fell to 2-6 in GNAC play this season.

Boys basketball

Capital 66, Centralia 64

Capital hit 14 three pointers and came back from a seven point halftime deficit to knock off Centralia 66-64 and move into sole possession of second place in the 2A Evergreen Conference, a half game ahead of River Ridge.

Keenan Williams led the Cougars with 15 points and Jared Eidenmuller and Justin Rudd added 14 and 12 points respectively. Baylor Scott scored 23 points for the Tigers.