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Jessica Benedetti

Men Hit The Road For Final Trip Of 2012-13 Season

| By: By Kevin Gilmore
Dammond Rogers and the Otter men will make their final roadtrip of the season to San Bernardino and San Diego this weekend.

Otters will play at San Bernardino and UC San Diego before returning to The Kelp Bed





SEASIDE, Calif. -- The Cal State Monterey Bay men's basketball team will play its final road gamesof the 2012-13 season this weekend when they travel to meet Cal State San Bernardino Friday (Feb. 22) and UC San Diego Saturday (Feb. 23).

Al always, Otters fans can listen online at www.OtterAthletics.com. Rob Ponce and Ian Hosford will call all of the action live from courtside. Live video will also be available Friday at www.CSUSBAthletics.com and Saturday at www.UCSDTritons.com.

The Otters will return home to host their final regular season games in The Kelp Bed Thursday and Friday, Feb. 28 and Mar. 1, against Cal State Stanislaus and CCAA co-leader Chico State.



SCOUTING THE COYOTES (15–6, 13–5 CCAA): The Coyotes saw their chance at the CCAA regular season title take a direct hit with a pair of losses on the Chico–Stanislaus trip next weekend. Nevertheless, they are comfortable esconsed in second place and will have a home game to look forward to Mar. 5 in the CCAA Tournament. Brian Goins and Kwame Alexander lead the offense at 15.5 and 15.4 points per game respectively. Alexander adds a team–best 9.1 rebounds per game

WHEN LAST WE MET: San Bernardino raced to a 26–point lead then withstood a furious CSUMB chanrge to earn an 85–67 win in The Kelp Bed on Jan. 19. Down 58–32, Alex Fertig (Fresno/Buchanan HS) ignited a 16–0 Otter run that got CSUMB back to within 58–48 before the comeback ran out of gas. Fertig led the Otters with 18 points. Kwame Alexander led San Bernardino with 20 points.

WHEN LAST WE PLAYED: Credit the Otters for not backing down after an early 20–2 blitz by the nation's No. 4 ranked team, but Cal Poly Pomona simply was too strong and rolled to a 74–49 win in Kellogg Gym The Otters used a 20–8 run of their own to pull to within 28–22 early in the second half before the Broncos pulled away. Senior guard Brandon Ward (Riverside/Woodcrest HS) led all scorers with 17 points while junior forward Julian Ball (Citrus Heights/Sierra College) grabbed a game–high 12 rebounds in his first collegiate start.

THE SIX SHOOTERS: The Otters tied a school record by placing six scorers in double figures in the 108–100 loss at Humboldt State on Feb. 14. Alex Fertig led CSUMB with 18 points. Joining him in double figures were Coley Apsay (Santa Clarita/Canyon HS) with 14; Kris Gallop (Vallejo/Los Medanos College) and Kevin Loustale (Chico/Shasta College) with 14 each; and Julian Ball and Brandon Ward with 11 points apiece.

The only previous time six Otters reached double figures in one game came in a 122–118 triple overtime loss at Cal State L.A. on Jan. 18, 2008. The high scorers that game were: D'Shon Cannon (37), Augie Johnston (24), Joe Mitchell (24), Juston Willis (13), Steve Becker (11) and Jose Sanchez (10).

WARD PUTTING DISTANCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND PURSUERS ON CSUMB SCORING LIST: With CSUMB's career scoring record now secure, Brandon Ward will spend the balance of his senior season putting space between himself and any would–be pursuers in the CSUMB record book. He broke the previous record held by Matt Dalhamer of 1,075 in the Jan. 26 win at Cal State Stanislaus. With 19 points Feb. 2 vs. Sonoma State, Ward eclipsed the 1,100 point barrier. Ward has four regular season games to put distance between himself and any future challengers.

THE FERTIG 400: It might not happen overnight, but Brandon Ward may soon find himself looking over his shoulder at Alex Fertig chasing him up the scoring leaderboard. Fertig enters the San Bernardino–San Diego trip with 349 points, already the CSUMB record for points in one season by a true freshman. That mark is good for No. 18 on the Otter single–season scoring list. At his current pace, he will finish the season with 406 points, which would place him at No. 14 on the list.

SUPERNOVA HOT: How hot has Kevin Loustale been lately? Try has hot as a supernova (around 3.7 billion degrees Kelvin or 4.8 billion Fahrenheit for the non–physicists out there). Loustale enters the week 46–of–73 (63.0 percent) from the field over his last 11 games, bringing his season total to 59.4 percent (good for No. 4 in the CCAA).

POPPING THE DOUBLE–DOUBLE BUBBLE: Senior forward Kevin Loustale became the first Otter men's player to record a double–double this season when he went for 10 points and 10 rebounds Jan. 19 versus San Bernardino. It was the first double–double for an Otter since Loustale (14 & 11) and Derrick Anderson (Pittsburg HS) (12 & 10) each turned the trick against UCSD on Feb. 17, 2012. For good measure, Loustale added his second double–double (11 & 15) Jan. 26 at Stanislaus.

ON THE BLOCKS: Junior forward Kris Gallop (Vallejo/Los Medanos College) posted a team season–high four blocks Jan. 5 at Cal State L.A. That mark is tied for the No. 4 spot in the CSUMB record book and were the most blocks since Andrew Castro blocked five shots in a win at Cal Poly SLO on Nov. 18, 2010. He added his 22nd block last week at Humboldt State to pass Will Chavarin (1999) for No. 5 on the CSUMB single–season list.

FERTIG AMONG CCAA SCORING LEADERS: Freshman guard Alex Fertig entered the week ranked No. 8 among the CCAA scoring leaders at 14.0 points per game. He is the only freshman ranked in the top 20 (Cal State L.A. freshman guard Joshua Munzon in No. 30 at 9.5 ppg).

SO CLOSE… The Otters just missed scoring their most points in a regulation conference game during the Rob Bishop era by hanging 98 points on Cal State East Bay Dec. 30. The high water mark is 99 points in a 99–88 win at Cal State Stanislaus on Jan. 30, 2009. The 98 points were the third most scored in a regulation CCAA game in Otter history, trailing only the aforementioned game at Stanislaus and 107 points (also at Stanislaus) on Jan. 19, 2007.

DOUBLE TROUBLE: By scoring 180 points versus Academy of Art (82) and Cal State East Bay (98), the Otters set a school record for points in consecutive regulation wins over NCAA Division II competition. The 2006–07 Otters scored 188 points in consecutive games versus Chico State (99) and Cal State Stanislaus (89), but fell in the Stanislaus game, 96–89.

THE WARD GIVETH… Brandon Ward's five assists at Humboldt State last week give him 242 career assists, good for No. 2 in the CSUMB record book. D'Shon Cannon owns the top spot with 371 assists from 2006–08.

…AND THE WARD TAKETH AWAY: Brandon Ward continues his quest for the CSUMB career steals record, entering the Cal State San Bernardino game tied with D'Shon Cannon for the No. 3 spot with 85 steals. Joe Mitchell holds the record with 91 steals.

LARGE MARGINS, HOME EDITION: The season–opening 104–52 win over Pacifica University set a CSUMB record for largest margin of victory (52 points) in an Otter home win. Last night, CSUMB's 78–58 win over Colorado Christian was the largest margin of victory in a road game during the Road Bishop era at CSUMB. The previous record was 19 points in an 83–64 win at Cal State East Bay on Feb. 3, 2011.

LARGE MARGINS, ROAD EDITION: Nov. 16th's 78–58 win over Colorado Christian was the largest margin of victory (20 points) in a road game in the Rob Bishop era of Otter basketball.

NOW THAT'S SMARTS: After leading the conference with three members of the CCAA All–Academic team in 2011, the Otter men's basketball team built on that success by placing four players on that team in 2012: James Albert, Geoff McIntosh, Brandon Ward and Troy Watkins. CSUMB's seven CCAA All–Academic team members over the last two seasons are tops among the 12 conference schools. Ward, in fact, is a three–year member of the CCAA All–Academic team.

FERTIG NAMED TO ALL–TOURNAMENT TEAM: Freshman guard Alex Fertig (Fresno/Buchanan HS) picked up the first piece of hardware for the Otters this season, earning All–Tournament recognition at the GCI Alaska Invitational. He averaged 18.7 points per game over the weekend, including CSUMB's first 20–point games of the season with 24 vs. Colorado Christian and 21 vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State.

SIT THIS ONE OUT: Freshman Tim Darkwa will practice with the team but is expected to redshirt the 2012–13 season.



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