Yellowjackets Run Past Montana AAU in Exhibition (Nov. 10, 2003)
Box Score

BILLINGS, MT – Six players scored in double figures Monday night as the MSU Billings men’s basketball team rolled over a Montana AAU team, 121-71.  Trae Fortier (Jr., Los Angeles, CA) scored a game-high 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting from the field.

Nine of the Yellowjackets’ 18 first half field goals came from 3-point range and MSU Billings finished the game with 19 threes.  Buddy Windy Boy (So., Lodge Grass, MT) had a game-high five threes on seven attempts for all 15 of his points in the game.  Fortier and Dave Carse (Sr., Billings, MT) each hit four from behind the arc and Alex Galloway (Jr., Berkeley, CA) made three.  Galloway scored 22 points and Carse added 16 to go with nine assists.

Montana AAU was led by Jethro Wilson’s 19 points.  Adam Leachman added 17 points and Max Soft scored 12.  Wilson, Soft and Eddie Cochrun each grabbed eight rebounds.

Jerett Skrifvars (Sr., Brea, CA) and Cameron Munoz (So., Chino, CA) each scored ten points as four of the Yellowjackets’ five starters reached double figures.  The fifth starter, Justin Hassell (Sr., Brooklyn, NY) scored eight.  Skrifvars, who was a perfect 8-for-8 from the free throw line, also added six assists.

The Yellowjackets will play one more exhibition game on Monday, November 17, before opening the season on November 22 at home against Minot State.

The first $1000 “Jacket Jackpot” of the season went unclaimed with the money carrying over to the next drawing.  First Interstate Bank in the Billings Heights sponsored Monday’s “Jacket Jackpot” and also covered the admission price for all fans in attendance.  Twenty Jackpots of $1000 will be given away this season, sponsored by 20 different local businesses.  To win the $1000 pot each night, the person whose name is drawn from the bin must be present at the second full time out of the second half.  Contestants can enter the drawing for $1 at each home men’s game with their names remaining in the pot the entire season.

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