Sioux City, Iowa — Dordt will travel to face Briar Cliff in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday, February 20 at 4:00 pm.
Briar Cliff is 12-12 overall and 9-10 in the GPAC and stopped a four game losing slide with a win over Hastings on February 6. The Chargers are 2-5 in their last seven games and had a five game winning streak before that from December 19-Janaury 9.
Jaden Kleinhesselink leads the Chargers with a 14.1 points per game average and he gets five rebounds with nearly three assists per game. Ethan Freidel is scoring 11.5 points per game and Quinn Vesey is good for 11.0 points per outing. Quinten Vasa and Nick Hoyt are at 10.6 and 10.5 points per game respectively.
The Defenders are 17-7 this season and 12-7 in the GPAC after snapping a three game losing streak on February 3 with a win over Concordia and a road win over Dakota Wesleyan on February 10.
Garrett Franken leads the Defenders with a 15.4 points per game average and 47 percent field goal shooting with 7.3 rebounds and nearly three assists per game. Jesse Jansma scores 14.6 points per game with 3.5 rebounds and nearly four assists per game and he makes 44 percent of his field goals. Jacob Vis scores 12.2 points with 5.7 rebounds and Cade Bleeker adds 10.6 points per game. Vis converts 65 percent of his field goals. Bryce Coppock has lifted his scoring average to 9.7 points per game and he has a team high 41 made three-point shots while Bleeker and Jansma each have 39 makes. Ben Gesink scores 6.0 points per game and Camden Bialas and Dejay Fykstra have 5.3 and 5.0 points per game respectively.
Dordt is outscoring teams 81.7-75.3 and outrebounding teams 35.8-34.0. Dordt makes 50 percent of its field goals and allow 44.8 percent success.
Dordt beat Briar Cliff 86-69 in November and was led by Franken’s 21 and Jansma added 19 while Bleeker scored 14. The Chargers were led by Kleinhesselink with 15 and Gibb came off the bench to score 10.
Dordt will qualify for the GPAC Postseason Tournament which opens play with the quarterfinal round on Wednesday, February 24. The semifinals will be on Saturday, February 27 and the championship will be on Tuesday, March 2.
