BILLINGS, Montana – Travis Yenor, Damek Mitchell and the rest of the No. 13 Lewis-Clark State Men's Basketball team dominated the court in Billings on Saturday en route to an 87-57 victory over Rocky Mountain College. Yenor scored the seventh-highest point total in program history with 37 points, and Mitchell finished one assist short of a triple double with 18 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.
 
"I am really proud of this group for completing the road sweep," head coach Austin Johnson said. "Rocky is a great team at spacing the floor and putting you into tough matchups, but our guys handled that challenge really well as a team playing together."
 
The Battlin Bears struck first with a 3 in the opening seconds, but free throws by Damek Mitchell got the offense going for LC State. Trystan Bradley gave the Warriors a 4-2 lead with a pair of foul shots, then kept them in front with a second-chance basket at 16:30. Khalil Stevenson made it 8-5 and a back-and-forth battle ensued.
 
Bradley put LC State back in the lead with a 3-pointer at the 14:33 mark on an assist from Mitchell, but the Battlin Bears answered with one of their own. Josiah Westbrook found Travis Yenor under the basket to put LC back in the lead at 11:56, and a free throw to complete the three-point play made it 16-13 Warriors. Jaxon Hughes drained two foul shots to push the advantage to 18-13.
 
The Warriors kept a slim lead over Rocky in the first half as the Battlin Bears kept answering LC State shots. Yenor hit back-to-back 3s to widen the gap to 33-24 with just over four minutes left in the half. Mitchell joined in with a 3-pointer of his own at 2:53 to make it a 12-point lead. Yenor continued his hot streak with six-straight Warrior points, followed by a 3 from Mitchell, to send LC into the locker room leading 46-29.
 
After the first 10 minutes, Yenor had totaled 20 points and the team was 12-for-13 from the line.
 
Mitchell got the scoring started for LC State in the second half as the Warrior offense continued to roll. Yenor added a bucket shortly after to pass his previous career-high of 21 points. Khalil Stevenson jumped in on the scoring to make it 55-33.
 
Josiah Westbrook hit the Warriors' eighth 3 of the game at 13:56, bringing the advantage to 59-36. The Warriors cruised through the second half, outscoring the Bears 41-28 in the last 20 minutes for an 87-57 victory.
 
Yenor led all scorers with a career-high 37 points. Mitchell, who was one rebound shy of a triple-double yesterday, finished one assist shy tonight with 18 points, 10 boards and nine assists. The pair combined for nine of the team's 12 3-pointers.
 
"It was a special night for Damek and Travis, but every guy pitched in one way or another," Johnson said. "We'll move on to a really big home stand against two great teams."
 
As a team, LC State shot 50 percent from the field (30-60) and held RMC to 35 percent. The Warriors were good on 15-of-18 free throws (83 percent). Every Warrior scored in the contest.
 
With nine assists tonight, Mitchell holds sole possession of second all-time in career assists with 374.