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Don't forget our big bowl party Saturday, the 29th at 4 p.m. at the SRO in Northwest Mall. We must send our positive vibes to the team in Phoenix at the Insight.com bowl. Hope we see a lot of you folks out to cheer on the team. The first 15 to sign in will receive a special prize!

See you next Saturday. In the meantime, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Be careful when out in this traffic!

Joyce and Ken Nesmith

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Date: December 19, 2001
Contact: Doug Dull, Sports Information Director
MARTIN SHOOTS WESTERN CAROLINA TO VICTORY
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Freshman Kevin Martin finished with 29
points, including six three-pointers, to lift Western Carolina to a
66-64 victory over Kansas State in a men's college basketball game
Wednesday at Bramlage Coliseum.
The win lifted the Catamounts to 6-3 overall and was their
third straight victory. Western Carolina won at Florida State on Dec.
8 to start the winning streak. Martin also had 29 points in the
Catamounts' last outing, a home win over Guilford.
The Wildcats fell to 5-4 overall.
Gilson DeJesus led Kansas State with 18 points, including a
5-for-7 effort from three-point range. Travis Reynolds chipped in
with 13 points and 14 rebounds, his third double-double of the
season. Larry Reid had eight points and six assists for the Wildcats.
A 15-point run in a five-minute stretch early in the second
half helped the Catamounts erase a 45-35 deficit. Casey Rogers had a
pair of three-pointers and Martin scored five points in the run that
put Western ahead 50-45 with 10:14 left.
The Wildcats came back to tie the game four times through the
remainder of the second half but never regained the lead. Reynolds
scored to tie the game at 60-60 with 2:42 to play. But Rogers hit one
of two free throws and Freeman converted a basket after a Wildcat
miss to push the lead back to three points.
Pervis Pasco hit one of two free throws for K-State with 1:15
left, and made only one of two again after rebounding a Catamount
miss with 35 seconds left, bringing the Wildcats within 63-62. Kori
Hatcher then hit a pair of foul shots for Western with 21 seconds to
play before Terence Woodyard stole the ball for the visitors on
K-State's next possession.
Woodyard hit one of two foul shots with eight seconds left to
put Western ahead 66-62. Pasco made the final basket for K-State with
0.2 seconds left.
K-State hit just 31 percent from the floor in the second half
on 9-for-29 shooting. The Wildcats, who hit 42 percent from the field
in the game, were also cold from the line, hitting only 8 of 19 free
throws.
The Catamounts hit 54 percent of their shots in the second
half and finished with a 15-for-18 mark at the foul line in the game.
Kelvin Wylie had seven rebounds to lead Western on the boards.
Kansas State travels to 15th-ranked Iowa on Saturday before
returning home to play Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 29 at 7 p.m.