February 3, 2007 

Orange City, Iowa ~ The men’s basketball team traveled to nationally rated number nine Northwestern College on Saturday afternoon.  The Vikings fell to the Red Raiders 106-65.

Northwestern opened the game on an11-3 run.  Teddy Cox (SR, Hawley, MN) stopped the early run by hitting three consecutive free throws.  The Vikings had whittled the lead down to four points midway through the first half when Zech Genant (SO, Springfield, MO) drained a free throw.  That would be as close as Dana would come in the first half.

The second half did not get any better for the Vikings.  The Red Raiders hit their first five shots to open the second half to stretch their lead to 58-43.  Gabe Bross (SO, Omaha, NE) hit a pair of free throws to draw Dana closer.  The Red Raiders extended their lead to as many as 30 points with 8:00 minutes remaining.  Jared Kitzelman (SR, Fremont, NE) hit a lay-up to bring the lead under 30.  The Northwestern reserves continued to score on Dana’s reserves to bring the final score to 106-65.

Jared Kitzelman and Gabe Bross were the only Vikings to be in double digits.  Kitzelman had a team high 11 points and two assists.  Bross added ten points and seven rebounds.  Zach Genant had nine points on the afternoon.  Eric Maassen (SO, Hancock, IA) pulled down three rebounds to go with his nine points.

The Vikings fall to 8-17 overall and 6-8 in conference.  The Vikings will host Concordia University on February 7 at 7:30pm.

For more information, contact:


Shad Beam, sports information director, (402) 426-7389, sbeam@dana.edu

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Scott Guzinski, assistant Sports Information Director, (402) 426-7949, sguzinsk@dana.edu