VANCOUVER - The No. 4 UBC Thunderbirds men's basketball team fell for a second straight night on the road, losing 92-85 in Calgary to the Dinos in a Canada West regular season matchup.
UBC drops to 4-2 on the season, while Calgary improves to 3-5 as both teams head into the winter holiday break.
Doug Plumb (5th, Pitt Meadows, BC) led UBC with 17 points while
Kamar Burke (5th, Mississauga, ON) added 14 points and 11 rebounds.
For Calgary, Tyler Fidler finished the night with 25 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field and 9-for-12 from the line.
The game featured 11 lead changes and seven tied scores, with the largest margin coming when UBC took a 14-6 lead just over four minutes into the contest, powered by five points and two rebounds from Plumb. It was tight all the way.
The Dinos dug into that Thunderbird lead late in the opening quarter, with UBC taking a 27-22 advantage into the second. Led by a nine-point quarter from Josh Wolfram, the Dinos erased that deficit to send the game into the half at 45-45.
It was 67-66 UBC after three, and the Dinos began to pull away late in the fourth when the Thunderbirds were forced to foul.
For the second straight night, UBC gave up 28 turnovers.
Calgary shot 52.6 percent from the field while the T-birds shot 40.9 percent.
The Thunderbirds did dominate on the glass, out-rebounding Calgary 51-30.
Rookie
Malcolm Williams continued his great debut in the CIS, scoring 16 points for UBC.
Nathan Yu, who ran into foul trouble early, played just 15 minutes and recorded eight points.
A total of five players fouled out of the contest – four of which were Thunderbirds.
Both teams head into the Christmas break and will next see conference action on the opening weekend of 2012.
The Thunderbirds will welcome prairie foes Alberta and Saskatchewan to War Memorial Gym Jan. 6-7, while Calgary will also play in the Lower Mainland that weekend as they head for a Fraser Valley-Trinity Western swing.
