RIVER FALLS, Wis. (uwrfsports.com) – The UW-River Falls men's basketball team opened up the 2017-18 season with an impressive 85-73 win over Central College at home in the newly built Page Arena. 

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THE RUNDOWN
Final Score: UW-River Falls 85, Central 73
Location: River Falls, Wis.    
Record: UWRF: 1-0, Central 0-1
 
WHAT HAPPENED

• Matt Keller started the game with a 3-point shot and the Falcons never looked back maintaining their lead from start to finish. 
• The Falcons would go on a five point run in the first half before the Dutch would get their first points on the board. 
• With 11:43 remaining in the first half, the Falcons would begin their dominating lead with a 3-point shot from Logan Halverson.  Clay Seifert would come up with a steal to take back the ball and Devin Buckley would finish it off with a layup to put the Falcons up by nine. 
• The Falcons would have back to back threes and a jumper to get their biggest lead of the first half.
• Alex Herink would finish out the half with a three pointer that would take the Falcons into the halftime break with a 45-34 lead over the Dutch. 
• In the first half, the Falcons were led by Brennan Witt with nine points on 4-7 shooting from the floor and Alex Herink who had nine points and was 3-3 from the floor and was 1-1 beyond the arc. Matt Keller would add eight points in the first half. 
• The Dutch came out in the second half ready to shoot scoring on a three-pointer 37 seconds in.
• With 14:30 remaining the Falcons went on an eight point run to give the Falcons a 16 point lead. 
• In the final ten minutes of the game, the Falcons sank 11 shots for 18 points to secure the 12 point lead to win the game. 
• Clay Seifert led the team in points for the second half with eight.  He was 3-9 from the floor and was 2-2 from the line.  Matt Keller had seven points and Brennan Witt, Devin Buckley, and Julian Jackson each had six points. 

 
IN-DEPTH LOOK

• Matt Keller and Brennan Witt led the Falcons with 15 points each.
• Witt was 7-11 from the floor and had a double double night also getting 11 total rebounds. 
• Matt Keller was 5-10 from the floor and was 3-6 from the arc.
• Clay Seifert had eleven points and was 4-11.  He led the team with four assists. 
• Devin Buckley and Alex Herink each had ten points. 
• Austin Heidecker scored 10 points for UWRF off the bench on 3-6 shooting.
• The Falcons shot 32-66 (48.5 percent) from the floor in the game and 10-28 (35.7 percent) from downtown. UWRF took care of business at the free throw line going 11-14 (78.6 percent).

 
THE OPPOSITION

• The Dutch's leading scorer was Kyle Smith.  He had 29 total points and was 12-23 from the floor.  He had a team high eight total rebounds. 
• Malik Wildermuth scored 13 point. He shot 4-14 from the floor and was 3-9 from the three point line.
• Nick Drucker was the only other Dutch player to get double digit points scoring 20.  He was 3-6 from the floor and was 2-4 from the arc. 
• The Dutch shot 25-64 (39.1 percent) from the floor and 13-35 (37.1 percent) from the three point line.

 
LOOKING AHEAD
The Falcons will travel the Wheaton, Ill. To compete in the Wheaton College Classic.  The first game of the tournament will be Friday.