The Lakeland College Rustlers men’s basketball team wrangled The King’s University Eagles at home on Jan. 31.
The Rustlers (10-5) bested the last-place Eagles (2-15) 102-80 as the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) regular season winds down.
Friday’s win saw starters Matthew Bryant earn 23 points, Chance Samuel, 21, Bahaeddin Salma, 19, Allayasa Bray, 13, and four from Riley Rathwell. Raphael McBean-Sandy also had an eight-point night.
The third-place Rustlers have five regular-season games remaining this season, two of which are against the second-place NAIT Ooks (12-4).
The boys will host the Northwestern Polytechnic Wolverines on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. They then travel to Edmonton to take on the Ooks on Feb. 14 before hosting NAIT on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. The Rustlers men’s basketball team’s last home game of the year is on Feb. 20 in Edmonton.
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