SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- Dominican men's basketball wrapped up 2023 with a matchup against the Westmont Warriors down in Santa Barbara. Westmont couldn't stop sophomore PJ Volz Saturday afternoon as he went for 25 points, but the Penguins would end up dropping this game 76 to 63.

Westmont came out firing on all cylinders to start the game. They were able to dominate in the paint, almost scoring at will. The Warriors outscored the Penguins 38 to 24 in that department.

Senior Garrett Siebels was second on the team in scoring going for 10 points. The Petaluma native led all bench scorers while knocking down two from deep. The Penguins bench outscored the Warriors 18 to 8. Junior transfer Conner Turner had a solid outing posting six points while going perfect from the charity stripe.

The Warriors just had too much offense as three of their starters were over double digits in scoring in comparison to one for Dominican. Anthony McIntyre led all scorers with 30 points on the day.

The Penguins open the new year with a home matchup Jan.4^th against HPU at 7:30 p.m.