TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabods won their fourth game in a row and their fourth in a row over Rogers State in Lee Arena as the Ichabods defeated the Hillcats 78-67 on Thursday night. The Ichabods will wrap up the homestand hosting Northeastern State on Saturday at 3 p.m.
 
Rogers State scored the first points of the game but a 7-2 run by the Ichabods took the lead back for good as the Ichabods led from start to finish taking a 38-25 lead into the break after hitting 13 of 26 shots and 5 of 12 from deep holding Rogers State (11-9, 7-7 MIAA) to 8 of 31 shooting in the first 20 minutes.
 
Washburn (9-9, 6-6 MIAA) led by as many as 16 in the opening half.
 
Starting the second half, the teams traded baskets but using a 6-0 run the Hillcats cut the Washburn advantage to eight at 43-35 with 16:12 to go. Washburn stretched the lead back to 14 at 51-37 on back-to-back buckets by Andrew Orr, who scored 12 of his game-high 20 points in the second half.
 
The Hillcats then used a 14-2 run over the next 4:07 to cut Washburn's lead to 53-51 with 9:39 to play, but on the Ichabods' next possession, Brady Christian connected on the first of his three second half 3-pointers pushing the lead back to five. The Hillcats cut the lead back to two but then Orr scored his 15^th and 16^th points of the night. The Hillcats scored again, but Orr connected on a hook shot to push the margin back to four at 61-57.
 
For the third time the Hillcats cut the lead back to two at 61-59 with 6:23 to play, but Orr's final points of the night on a jumper pushed the lead back to four and Christian hit a 3-pointer with 4:07 to play as the lead moved to seven. Rogers State would get the lead to five once more, but would not get any closer than six the final 1:56 of the game as Christian hit his third 3-pointer of the game as the Ichabods were a perfect 5 of 5 from the free throw line the rest of the way to seal the win.
 
Orr led four total Ichabods in double digits followed by Michael Keegan's 16 points, Tyler Nelson's 13 and Levi Braun's 11 points. Orr had seven rebounds and Christiansen finished with nine points and six rebounds.
 
Joe Saracco led the Hillcats with 14 points adding eight rebounds.
 
Washburn finished 27 of 53 for the game at 50.9 percent shooting while Rogers State improved to 46 percent for the game after going 18 of 26 from the field in the second half.
 
Washburn outrebounded the Hillcats 38 to 26 in the game with 10 offensive rebounds.