Corban Men Home For Lone Weekend of Month

Corban is 1-17 overall, and 0-7 in CCC play.

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SALEM - Corban’s men’s basketball team comes back to the Capitol City for the only time this month when they host the Thunderbirds of Cascade on Friday and the nationally-ranked Knights of Warner Pacific on Saturday.

Both games will tip-off at approximately 7:30 PM inside the C.E. Jeffers Sports Center.

SERIES NOTES:

Corban and Cascade have met 21 times in the series history with the Warriors winning 19-out-of-21 contests.

Last season, the Warriors took both meetings, 80-73 (in Portland) & 104-94 (in Salem).

Corban and Warner Pacific have squared off 27 times with the Warriors winning 24-out-of-27 games.

Last season, both teams won on their respective home courts, as the Knights took the opener, 105-96, in Portland and Corban took the finale, 113-98, in Salem on “Senior Night.”

“MASTEN”-FUL PERFORMANCES:

Sophomore point guard Kyle Masten put together the best two-game performance of the season, as the 6-foot transfer from Linn-Benton Community College combined to score 36 points on 11-for-27 shooting from the field.

Masten also handed out a team-best 9 assists over the weekend, while recording 3 steals in a combined 70 minutes of action.

So far this season, Masten is third on the team in scoring with an average of 7.9 points per game and leads the team in assists per game (3.2) and steals per game (1.1).

Masten also ranks 11th in the Cascade Collegiate Conference in assists per game (3.17), while ranking 114th in NAIA Division II.

ROTATION MERRY-GO-ROUND CONTINUES:

In eighteen games this season, fifth-year head

coach Justin Sherwood has used eleven different starting rotations.

Sophomore Jason Braun leads the Warriors with sixteen games started, as ten different players have started at least two games.

Sophomore Kyle Masten has been a member of the starting line up fourteen times, while fellow sophomores Wade Douglas and Jason Klontz have been announced as starters eleven times this season.

Sherwood began the season starting two seniors and three sophomores, while announcing a line up that consisted of three seniors, one junior, and one sophomore this past weekend.

NEW ADDITION:

With the new semester having begun on Wednesday, fifth-year head coach Justin Sherwood needed another body that could provide scoring and allow some players a breather during the course of the game.

Sherwood got his answer in freshman transfer Ryan Johnson on Tuesday. Johnson, a 6-foot-6 transfer wing player from

NCAA Division II Northwest Nazarene, red-shirted his freshman season for former Warrior head coach Tim Hills and has not played collegiate yet.

Hills commented to Sherwood that Johnson is a true scorer that he wishes could help the Crusaders, but knows that Corban will benefit greatly from the young man.

Having spent the last semester at Hillsborough Community College in Florida attending classes, Johnson arrives at Corban with three semesters under his belt and is ready to assume his role as a Warrior.

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