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Weber State Rolls Past Northridge

By STEVE HENSON
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OGDEN, Utah — 

Cal State Northridge was pushed around for easy shots and offensive rebounds and dropped a 95-78 Big Sky game to Weber State before 5,238 Thursday night.

The loss was the second-worst for Northridge (16-11, 8-7) in its three seasons in the Big Sky, but more startling was the absence of junior forwards Greg Minor and Rico Harris, left at home for what Matador coaches called conduct detrimental to the team.

Neither will play against Cal State Sacramento on Saturday.

Northridge had a chance pull into a tie for third place because Portland State lost earlier Thursday.

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But any chance of that evaporated early in the second half when Weber State (21-7, 12-3) quickly extended a nine-point halftime lead to 74-48 with nine minutes to play.

Derrick Higgins of Northridge led all scorers with 19 points.

Harold Arceneaux and Eddie Gill each scored 17 for Weber State, which emptied the bench with about three minutes to play.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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