Visiting Linfield scored the final 17 points of the game, including the only touchdown in overtime, to pull out a 38-31 win over Whitworth and clinch the 2019 Northwest Conference football championship on Saturday in the Pine Bowl.
Jordan Lester led five teammates in double figures with 21 points as visiting Whitworth defeated Pacific University 116-107 in a Northwest Conference men’s basketball game on Friday night.
Whitworth University rolled to its first NCAA Division III football playoff victory in 12 years with a 48-6 win over visiting Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Saturday in the Pine Bowl.
With all five starters reaching double figures in points, 4th-ranked Whitworth held off visiting Linfield 86-75 on Friday night to clinch second place in the Northwest Conference men's basketball standings and the right to host a conference tournament semifinal next Thursday.
