by Michael Duca

BERKELEY–The Cal Bears won a Halloween exhibition game at Haas Pavilion 94-50 over Cal State East Bay Pioneers the Bears got help from their guard positions Tyrone Wallace 8-12 and Jordan Matthews 6-8 both were the top scorers in the exhibition with 21 points a piece.

Head coach Cunozo Martin made his coaching debut and was waving and yelling plays from the sidelines and the Bears responded with a solid defense and five Cal players got into double figures for the game. Senior David Kravish and sophmore Jabari Bird who scored 11 points each and sophmore Sam Singer ran up ten points.

Second year Roger Moute a Bidias had seven points and redshirt junior Christian Behrens, freshman Kingsly Okoroh, graduate student Dwight Tarwater all tallied 15 points. Matthews wasted no time getting three points early in the game scoring a lay up and a point from the free throw line. The Bears kept a small lead over Cal State until Kravish hit a jumper and the Bears rattled off 19 points to help bury Cal State.

The Bears duplicated their performance in the second half of the game with big help from Matthews and Wallace scoring nine of Cal’s ten points helping the Bears to take a 44-23 lead. The Bears had a whopping 67-23 lead over the Pioneers later in the half and you knew it was out of reach by that point.

The Golden Bears return to Haas Pavilion for their next game Thursday November 6th against San Marcos. The regular season starts against Alcorn State Friday Nov 14th at Haas and it will be part of the 2K Classic.

Michael Duca covers Cal Bears basketball for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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