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Curtis Walker’s 16 rebounds led Bellevue in their home finale. photo by Rick May<\/em><\/p>\n Bellevue College’s men’s basketball team let a 17 point halftime lead slip away losing 69-68 to Peninsula today at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. In their home finale, which was a re-scheduled game from a snow out weeks ago, the Bulldogs now must win tomorrow afternoon at Skagit Valley in order to qualify for a play-in game for the final spot in the NWAC playoffs.<\/p>\n Parker Manalo sparked Bellevue in their hot first half, pouring in 17 points with five three-pointers (out of six attempts). The ‘dogs were near perfect in the first half, shooting 50% from the field, dominating the boards and not allowing Peninsula to shoot one free throw.<\/p>\n In the second half, Bellevue’s Curtis Walker was the sole Bulldog who maintained his play, pulling down 10 rebounds and was 4-for-6 from the field. The rest of the team shot a dismal 29%, including a 2-for-17 clip from three-point range. Manalo, who paced the Bulldogs in the first half, had only three attempts in eight minutes of time in the second half.<\/p>\n Manalo and Walker led BC with 19 and 18 points respectively.<\/p>\n Bellevue’s must win situation tomorrow will put them in a three-way tie for third with Whatcom and Peninsula. Peninsula’s sweep over Bellevue this year gives them the automatic berth for third, which would lead to a one game play-in on Monday March 4 if Bellevue defeats Skagit tomorrow. A Bulldog loss will end their season early. Bellevue is now 6-7 in league (15-11 overall). Skagit, with no chance of making the playoffs at 5-8, can only play spoiler tomorrow in their home finale. Tipoff is set for 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtis Walker's 16 rebounds led Bellevue in their home finale. photo by Rick May Bellevue College's men's basketball team let a 17 point halftime lead slip away losing 69-68 to Peninsula today at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. In their home finale, which was a re-scheduled game from a snow out weeks ago, the Bulldogs now ...more about Bulldogs Fall to Peninsula<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-mens-basketball","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22191,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190\/revisions\/22191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}