Davenport cruises to lopsided win over NWC

DAVENPORT–The Gorilla boys basketball team showed off its explosive offense in a 75-28 victory over Northwest Christian in an NE2B contest on Dec. 9.

The Crusaders were no match for Tennessee Rainwater who scored 25 points, and his supporting cast, Evan Gunning and Cash Colbert who scored 14 and 10 points, respectively. The trio bullied the Crusaders by scoring 32 of the team's points inside the paint, close to the basket.

Jaeger Jacobsen contributed eight points and Jason Schillinger added seven for the Gorillas.

Davenport made 25 field goals for the game compared to nine by NWC. In addition, the Gorillas outrebounded NWC 28-9.

Rainwater and Jacobsen each pulled down five rebounds and Schillinger, Colbert and Jayvee Fuderich each had four.

Rainwater reached a milestone by scoring his 1,000th career point during the first half.

"We had a great game," Rainwater said. "They are a good team who just played a bad game. We are dangerous this year. More dangerous than we've ever been."

"I'm really proud of our guys," head coach Matt Henry said. "They did a good job executing our plan. Our focus this year is to take it one practice and one game at a time."