Men's Basketball | 11/11/2011 10:24:00 PM

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HILO, Hawaii – Three Western Oregon men's basketball players scored in double digits and Tarance Glynn earned his first double-double of the season, but the Wolves fell short to Chaminade, 69-53, on Friday, Nov. 11th.

The Wolves (0-1, 0-0 GNAC) came into Friday's game with hopes to get the season started in the right step under new head coach, Brady Bergeson. Tarance Glynn got his first double-double of the season with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Kolton Nelson and Kyle Long joined him with double-digit points themselves, but Western Oregon just could not find a way to answer Chaminade's offense.

Entering the second half of play, the Wolves found some offense within them to keep the game in reach after a rough first half. WOU's offense would answer back to just about every shot that the Silverswoard's would put into the basket.

With 12:32 left in the game, Western Oregon found a way to claw their way back from being eight points down. Tarance Glynn hit a much-needed jumper and then two free throw shots to cut Chaminade's (1-0, 0-0 PacWest) lead down to four. Kolton Nelson sunk in a jumper of his own to keep the home team's lead at four. The Silverswoard's would not take long to answer back as Bennie Murray hit a shot from behind the arc to get his team back en route to increasing their lead to as much as 15 points, and keeping the Wolves hopes of a comeback out of the picture.

In the first half of play The Silverswoard's would come out scoring early as they shot their way to a 13-3 lead with in the first six minutes of play. However, Western Oregon would not be able to bring the lead any closer than five by the end of the first.

Western Oregon was only able to grab six second chance points against Chaminade's 15.

The Wolves will continue their regular season play as they play game two of the GNAC/PacWest tournament. They get set to match up against Hawaii Hilo on Saturday, Nov. 12th. Tip off is at 9:30 p.m. PST.