Mark Rangeley celebrated his 26th birthday scoring a season-high 27 points to lead Lancashire past Westminster 95-86 and help end a two-game National League skid.
Zion Tordoff added 16 points and Mike Bernard and David Walsh each had 12 points for the Spinners (5-10, 4-6), who improved to 2-0 in games played at Myerscough College.
Ahmed Al Shamri scored 24 points, but couldn’t prevent Westminster (2-13, 0-9) from falling to another league defeat. Jon Johnson had 20 points and Abraham Ekperuoh chipped in 17 points.
“We’ve had our honeymoon period,” quipped Lancashire coach Neal Hopkins, whose team has been hot and cold at times. “It was a vital win to get in a tough league where if you don’t turn up you’ll lose.”
Westminster led throughout the first half, but never managed to grow an advantage larger than five.
Lancashire scored six points over the final 1:31 of the second quarter to trail by just 41-39.
Tied at 49 early in the second half, the Spinners jumped to a 57-51 lead – one they wouldn’t relinquish – paced by Rangeley’s play inside the paint.
But the Warriors pushed Lancashire as they cut the deficit to two points with 5:41 remaining.
Rangeley responded with back-to-back 3-pointers before Tordoff made a block on Johnson at the rim and the Spinners build an 87-75 lead, which Westminster didn’t recover from.
NOTES: Lancashire scored at least 90 points for a fifth time this season … Won its first game when trailing at the half … Was previous 0-9.
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