PORTLAND | After a 78-112 defeat just a day ago, Warner Pacific Men's Basketball was looking for revenge against the Linfield Wildcats on Friday night. The team was 39 minutes and 58.2 seconds away from that revenge before Linfield scored the go-ahead bucket with 2.8 seconds remaining. The Knights dropped game-two of the series 78-79 to one of the premiere teams in the Northwest Athletic Conference.

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The Rundown
It was the clear the Knights weren't going to be shot out of the gym two nights in a row. The Knights defense, which just a night ago, allowed the Wildcats to shoot 52.6% from deep, held Linfield to just 36.4% from behind the arc tonight.  

Warner Pacific came out hot offensively and tight defensively, leading the Wildcats by as many as 14 with eight minutes to go in the first half, but the streaky three-point shooting Wildcat team got hot down the stretch cutting into the Warner Pac lead and eventually claiming a four-point halftime lead.
 
The Knights trailed for the entire second half before their tight defense held the Wildcats scoreless for nearly seven minutes. In that seven minute dry spell, Warner Pacific's Isaac Etter hit back-to-back three pointers while Drew Magaoay and Christian Hodge added crucial buckets.
 
With 1:31 left on the clock, the Knights led by three. The Wildcats came down the floor for a quick layup, making it a one-point WPU lead. Drew Magaoay stepped to the charity stripe with a chance to extend the lead to three with just under a minute to play but failed to convert. Linfield took the ball down the floor and found a a game-winning opportunity with a 21-footer jumper. The ball hit the iron but with 2.8 seconds left on the clock, Linfield's Dempsey Roggenbuck snatched an offensive rebound for the put back and go-ahead basket.
 
With 2.8 seconds and the entire length of the floor to go and coach Jamayne Potts timeout, Isaac Etter received the ball in the front third of the court, took two dribbles, found daylight and launched a half-court heave. The ball hit the back of the rim, then the front before bouncing out at the buzzer. Just a ½ inch shorter and the Knights would have pulled out the miraculous finish.
 
Warner Pacific shot 44.4% from the field and 43.3% from behind the arc.
 
Isaac Etter, who scored 23 in an exhibition game, scored his official WPU career-high in the contest. The junior out of Los Angeles finished the night with 22 points, shooting 8-19 from the field and 6-13 from three-point land. The second member of the  "Los Angeles Connection", Christian Hodge, made his way into the starting lineup for the first time and finished the night with 20 points and came up one rebound shy of a double-double.
 

  
Deeper Look
Four Knights finished in double figures: Isaac Etter (22), Christian Hodge (20), Kadeem Strickland (12) and Drew Magaoay (11)
The Knights outrebounded the Wildcats 42-34 while forcing 15 turnovers
Warner Pacific dished out 18 assists on 28 made baskets
 
Flash Forward
The Knights will travel to Salem on Tuesday for a non-conference battle with Corban University at 7:30pm.