Big Bend drops first round game to Bellevue
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Big Bend sophomore Brendan Westendorf collides with a Bellevue defender during Saturday's NWAACC playoff game.
KENNEWICK - Big Bend men's basketball missed out on a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) East region championship and will now have to settle for, at best, a seventh place finish at the NWAACC tournament.
After defeating Bellevue earlier in the season, the Bulldogs were able to exact revenge on the Runnin' Vikes and escaped with a 70-69 win in the first round of the NWAACC tournament.
Sophomore guard Brendan Westendorf scored a game-high 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, but also committed six turnovers.
Fellow sophomore Victor Aguero was the only other Vike in double figures with 14 points.
Freshmen Sean McDonnell and Richard Black scored six points each.
When Big Bend has struggled this season the team has shot poorly from distance and Saturday was no different. The Runnin' Vikes shot 15.8 percent from 3-point range, only making 3/19.
Big Bend moved to the loser's bracket and faced Lower Columbia Sunday at 10 p.m. Results were not available at time of press.
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