HONOLULU – The Chaminade University men's basketball team had seven players reach the double-digit scoring plateau on Tuesday to earn a convincing 127-80 win over Northwest Indian College at McCabe Gymnasium.
Casey Steadmon (Louisville, Ky./Hawai'i Pacific University/Bethlehem HS) came off the bench and hit 9-of-10 shots for a career-high 21 points for the Silverswords, who won for the first time in four tries this season.
Nate Law (Houston/Oklahoma Wesleyan University/St. Thomas Episcopal HS) added 15 points, hitting 6-of-10 field goals as Chaminade shot 56.6 percent from the floor.
Sam Sivulich (Ogden, Utah/Snow College/Northridge HS) added 13 while
Ryan Raad (Los Angeles/College of Southern Nevada/Crescenta Valley HS),
Logi Gudmundsson (Kopavogur, Iceland/Breidablik Kopavogur) and
Zion Young (Wichita, Kan./Lamar State College Port Arthur/Life Prep Academy) all chipped in with 12.
Mihael Tomic (Zabok, Croatia/University of Incarnate Word/Bosco Institute, Ind., HS) added 10 more.
All 14 Silverswords who were active for the game had at least one basket.
Law and
Paul Stupperich (Trier, Germany/Max Planck Gymnasium Trier) pulled down seven boards each with
Kanyon Rice (Rocklin, Calif./Yuba College/Rocklin HS) dishing out four assists with three boards.
The 127 points is the third-highest in school history, trailing the 132 they posted against Northwest Indian in December 2016 and the 134 against BYU-Hawai'i in December 1977.
Keenan Kahoekapu, a Kalaheo High School graduate had 19 points and missed just one of his 10 shots for the Eagles, a non-affiliated athletics program who fell to 0-4 against NCAA Division II competition.
The 'Swords led wire-to-wire, scoring the game's first 10 points thanks for forcing four NWIC turnovers. The Eagles never got closer than seven points at the 16:18 mark of the first half, building a double-digit lead less than a minute later which they never relinquished.
Chaminade had 71 points in the first half and led by as many as 58 past the midway point of the final 20 minutes. They forced 22 NWIC turnovers and outscored them, 33-10, off giveaways.
The 'Swords shot 56.6 percent from the floor and made 14 3-pointers, three each from Steadmon and Sivulich. Of their 17 steals, Sivulich had three steals as did Law. CUH was also an efficient 19-of-25 from the free throw line and out-rebounded the Eagles, 47-to-25. They also dished out 22 assists.
Northwest Indian shot 51.5 from the floor, making four triples and was 6-of-8 at the charity stripe.
The Silverswords return to Division II competition this weekend in the PacWest/GNAC Challenge at McCabe Gym. They open against the University of Alaska Anchorage on Friday at 7 p.m. and then face Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday at 3 p.m.
