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STEVENS POINT, Wis. — One of the most proficient shooting teams in the country showed its skills on Saturday as the UW-Stevens Point men’s basketball team hit 14 of its first 17 shots and rolled to an 83-58 victory over UW-Superior on Saturday at the Quandt Fieldhouse.

The Pointers entered the game ranked 15th in the NCAA Division III in field goal shooting and were on fire from the beginning. Senior Jason Kalsow led the sharpshooters with 11-for-12 shooting from the field while finishing with a game-high 23 points. UW-Stevens Point shot 58.0 percent for the game, including 64.0 percent in the first half.

Despite the Pointers’ hot start, UW-Superior stayed close with torrid shooting of its own. The Yellowjackets made six of their first eight shots, but began to cool off as the Pointers built a 28-19 lead with 7:54 left in the first half. Tamaris Relerford, who scored a season-high 13 points on three-for-four three-point shooting, knocked down a long range shot with 25 seconds left in the half to give the Pointers a 36-26 halftime lead.

After UW-Superior made a pair of free throws to cut the lead to 49-36 with 14:29 left in the second half, the Pointers went on a 15-2 run with Kalsow sparking the spurt with a dunk off a pass from Brian Bauer.

Nick Bennett added a pair of three-pointers and finished with 19 points for UW-Stevens Point, which owned a 37-22 rebounding advantage. In fact, the Pointers had just eight turnovers against a Yellowjackets’ defense that forces a league-high 16.9 turnovers per game.

Laron Reed paced UW-Superior with 16 points and Marc Rothschadl added 11 points.

The win put the second-ranked Pointers one game away from clinching its fifth Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in six years. UW-River Falls beat co-leader UW-Platteville 60-59 on Saturday and visits Stevens Point on Wednesday. A victory would give the Pointers a share of the conference title.