Dilveer Randhawa scored a career-high 15 points to lead all scorers in the game, and Dario Lopez scored his 1000^th career Canada West point on Friday night, as the UFV Cascades defeated the MacEwan University Griffins 104-64 at the UFV Athletic Centre. 

The Cascades improve to 6-9 on the season with the win, while MacEwan drops to 2-11.

How it happened:
The two teams battled in the opening quarter, with each team holding small leads, but a Matthias Klim jumper late gave the Cascades a 20-19 lead at the interval.

After starting the second on an 8-0 run, UFV would explode offensively for 39 points in the quarter with Randhawa hitting three triples off the bench, and Takeshi Croke chipping in nine-points of his own, to help give the Cascades a 59-42 lead at the break.  

MacEwan battled back with a 7-2 run early in the third, but UFV would continue to push, extending the lead to 21 heading into the final frame.

From their the Cascades put it fully out of reach, outscoring the Griffins 26-7 in the final 10 on the way to the victory.

Notable:
Lopez scored his 1000^th career Canada West point on Friday, good for fourth in the Cascades program history. Lopez also becomes just the second Cascades men's basketball player, after Kevon Parchment, to score at least 1000 points and tally 500 career rebounds in Canada West play.
 

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Randhawa led all players with 15 points in the game, while Lopez added 14, and Klim added 12 points and 15 rebounds on the night. 

All 12 Cascades that touched the floor tallied at least one-point in the game.

Quotable:
Cascades guard Dilveer Randhawa

"It feels nice to be able to get a 30 point win at home, and also contribute 15 points to the game. It's just a good team win overall, and I think the guys really needed one. We've been putting in a lot of hard work into practice, playing hard, rebounding hard, running the floor hard, so this one is a good one to get."

"I had a bit of a slow start to the season, but just seeing what I can do in this game particularly is a good confidence booster going forward."

"Tomorrow we just need to approach the game the same way, try to fix up a few flaws here and there, and then just execute what we can do."

Up Next:
The two teams will battle again on Saturday, with tip-off set for 5pm at the UFV Athletic Centre and live on Canada West TV.