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Mendezona's 27 points Helps Lead Eagles to Win

Domi Mendezona' scored a game high 27 points tonight.
Box Score PORTLAND, Ore. – Domi Mendezona's game high 27 points helped lift the Northwest University Eagles to a 67-61 Cascade Conference victory over Warner Pacific tonight.

Down 19-9 eight minutes into the first half, Northwest would outscore the Knights 16-4 as Jenna Lewis' three pointer would pull NU to within one, 23-22 and a 3-pointer by Domi Mendezona 5 seconds later would give the Eagles a 25-23 lead with 2:47 to go in the period. Two free throws by Alyssa Dario would increase the lead to 27-23 as Northwest would take a 27-25 lead into the break.

Warner Pacific would tie the game at 27-all coming out of halftime, but a lay in by Sanda Milovic and a three point play by Chanara Greene would give the lead back to the Eagles at 32-27 with 18:36 left on the clock. WPC would get to within one point 5 times in the half, but each time Northwest would answer with a score or run of their own to maintain the slim lead. With 2:07 remaining in the game, Lacy Wood would score for Warner Pac to make it 62-61, but two free throws by Jordan Asher and a driving lay in by Mendezona would give the lead to NU for good at 66-61 and Asher would hit a free throw with 2 seconds to go to ice the win for the Eagles.

Domi Mendezona led all scorers with her 27 points for Northwest U (12-8, 4-4 CCC) while Jordan Asher would add 10 points and Sanda Milovic dropping in 9 for the Eagles. NU shot 42% for the game and hit 21 of 29 free throws for 73% shooting from the charity stripe. NU also won the rebounding battle 45-37.

Warner Pacific (5-14, 1-7 CCC) was led by Janelle Weiss' 13 points while teammate Jordan Wilcox added 12 points and 6 rebounds for the Knights who were held to 31% shooting.
Said Ken Crawford, NU head coach, "It was a good game for us tonight, one of those you have to just grind out to win. I thought we had a number of great efforts from a number of our players, both starters and players off the bench. We continue to learn with each game."

NU remains in Portland and will face Concordia Saturday night at 5:30 p.m. in another CCC contest.
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