LONDON, Ont. - The Western would use a stellar second half to rout the Ryerson Rams 88-57 in their home opener Friday night at Alumni Hall.
Holding a slim three-point lead at half the Mustangs would outscore the Rams 56-28 in the second half. Western played excellent defence throughout the game forcing Ryerson to go 3-of-29 from three-point range on the game.
With the win the Mustangs improved to 2-1 on the season with a game against the Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday night at 8 p.m.
Ryan Barbeau would lead the Mustangs with 19 points and five assists in only 17 minutes of action. Andrew Wedemire, Adam Jespersen, and Garrett Olexiuk would clean up the paint with 16, 13 and 10 points respectively. In total, ten Mustangs would get on board scoring two or more points.
Ryerson would come out with scrappy defence forcing the Mustangs to make mistakes on offence and pushing the tempo with fast breaks. Both teams would struggle shooting and the Mustangs would hold a slim 15-14 lead after the first quarter.
Ryerson and Western would trade baskets throughout the second quarter with no team able to put together a run. At half the Mustangs would be shooting a low 32% to the Rams 40% and would hold a small 32-29 lead.
The Mustangs would open up their lead in the third quarter breaking the Rams zone by hitting a number of three-point shots. The Rams would show full-court press to cut the lead back down 7 but a run to end the quarter would have the Mustangs up 62-45 after three.
The fourth quarter would turn interesting with two bench players on Ryerson called for technicals and then Ryerson's coach getting a techinical and ejected. The Mustangs would ignore the distractions and just keep playing tight defence and hitting their shots to increase the lead. Western would have their biggest lead of the game at the end as they finished the game out 88-57.
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