A power outage at Oregon State University darkened Gill Coliseum, casting doubt on whether Wednesday night’s game against Northwest Nazarene would even take place. Once the lights returned and the team’s took the court, the Beavers looked dominant, taking down the Nighthawks 77-53. With the win the Beavers’ record sits at 2-1.
Perhaps due to the pregame power outage both teams were a little sluggish to start. Kendall Clark scored the first points of the game with a layup for the Nighthawks. The Beavers didn’t get their first points of the game until two minutes into the first, when Kennedie Shuler hit a layup.
Shuler powered the Beaver offense for much of the first quarter, with the seven of the team’s 19 points. The Beavers worked on getting their bigs into the game, setting up Evelini Smith, Lara Alonso-Basurto and Maria Ignatchenko, but it didn’t quite click in early in the game. Despite that, Oregon State led by six after the first quarter, 19-13…