Fifteen players scored for Wartburg College Tuesday night as the Knights evened their season record with a resounding 97-54 win over Crossroads College. The Knights (4-4) were led by Jordan Cannon, a freshman from Bolingbrook, Ill., who had 18 points with four of seven treys during their first meeting with the Knights from Rochester, Minn., now 1-14.

Wartburg started slowly, hounded by a Crossroads zone, and trailed 5-2 with nearly three minutes gone. But eight minutes later, Wartburg took its first double-digit lead, 19-9, on a Cannon three-pointer.  Behind a barrage of three-pointers — seven of 13 in the first half — Wartburg built a 41-24 advantage at intermission.

The onslaught picked up momentum in the second half with Cannon leading the way on a 10-0 run that took only 1:46. With just under nine minutes remaining and the score 70-43, Cannon hit consecutive treys from the left corner, followed by one from Nate Treibel, a senior guard from Webster City. Cannon hit Treibel cutting in the lane with a pretty pass for a layup, and then Cannon capped the run with another layup.

Treibel had two treys for the game and finished with 12 points as did Clay Cook, a junior from West Branch, who showed a variety of moves in the paint.

For the game, Wartburg shot 54.2 percent (39-72) from the field and was 46.2 percent (12-26) from behind the arc as Coach Dick Peth used 17 players . Andy Carson, who had been averaging 23.4 points for Crossroads, led the other Knights with 22. The final score represented Wartburg's largest lead.

Crossroads, a member of the Association of Christian College Athletics, had been in the spotlight earlier this year when it lost to Grinnell College, 173-123, as Jack Taylor scored 109 points.

Wartburg heads to Florida for a two-game stint in the Cruzin Classic, Dec. 19-20, in Fort Lauderdale, before returning home for a Jan. 4 game against Bethany Lutheran in Levick Arena.

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