Southwestern, who?

The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks will be in town tomorrow afternoon to tangle with the Arizona Wildcats. The Lumberjacks are fresh off a lopsided 113-61 win over Southwestern College.

Southwestern,who? Turns out Southwestern motored to Flagstaff Friday night to tangle with the Lumberjacks. It didn't take them long to get there...maybe an hour...or two at the most. You see Southwestern is a small Christian college just north of Phoenix..somewhere off of Cactus Rd. It is their first year in the NAIA and their breakout game was one for the record books--NAU's record book, that is. NAU, toyed with the Eagles at first...my goodness, it was 7-7 at one point. But eventually the Lumberjacks soared like they were the Eagles and went on to crush the team from North Phoenix.

For those of you that are interested, Southwestern did have one player from Tucson. AJ Koch (Flowing Wells) scored three points and hauled in two rebounds. As for NAU,it was the most points they have ever scored in a season opener.In fact, it was the most points they have scored in a game since the 1999-2000 season when they blew away Southern Utah, 116-63. Eric Platt led the Lumberjacks on Friday night as he pumped in 26 points. Don't look for Platt and the Lumberjacks to do that kind of damage on Sunday afternoon at McKale.

They'll be lucky to have 26 points by halftime.