Day two of the Purple and Gold Poet Classic in the Graham Athletics Center was filled with close games and impressive individual performances.  Bethany Lutheran College started the day with a comeback 57-54 win over Whittier College in the women's consolation game.  Keene State College took the women's championship trophy back to New Hampshire with 55-49 win over Goucher College in game two.  On the men's side, California Lutheran University finished undefeated in the classic with a hard fought 61-48 victory over the University of California, Santa Cruz in the third game.  In the Classic finale, La Sierra University needed a game-winning shot in the closing seconds to beat the host, Whittier College by a score of 69-67.

Bethany Lutheran won the consolation game thanks to a double-double from All-Tournament selection Eva Voss.  She scored a game-high 22 points, grabbed ten rebounds and blocked three shots.  Laura Parochka finished with ten points, four rebounds and four assists.  Leslie Bremer had ten rebounds to go along with eight points for the Vikings.

The Poets were led by All-Tournament team member, Rosario Rios-Aguilar.  She posted a double-double as well, with 17 points and eleven rebounds.  She was also credited with four assists.  Kourtney Zilbert finished with 12 rebounds, nine on the offensive end, seven points and three steals.  Morgan Sabala also scored seven points and Melissa Johnson ended up with six points and nine steals.

In the women's championship game, Keene State's Danielle Graveley scored 18 points on her way to the tournament's Most Valuable Player award.  Alyssa Sapp scored ten points and Nicole Simmler was two points away from a double-double with eight points and eleven rebounds.  All-Tournament selection Michelle Boudreau scored eight points and was credited with three assists and two steals.

Goucher earned second place, and were led by Shadae Swan who scored 26 points for the Gophers.  She scored 45 points in two games and was named to the All-Tournament team.  Also on the All-Tournament team was Taqwisha Richardson who followed up a double-double on day one with seven rebounds and a blocked shot in the championship game.  Amber Smith finished with nine points, eleven rebounds, four steals and two assists.

For the men, Cal Lutheran finished 2-0 in the Classic with 18 points from Aaron Fisher.  All-Tournament team members Andy Meier and Deshion Inniss scored twelve and nine points, respectively.  Meier also hauled in six rebounds.  Chad Acerboni finished with a game-high ten rebounds and six points.

UC-Santa Cruz got 14 points and four steals from Ehson Mortezaie.  Ryan Matsuoka was named to the All-Tournament team after scoring in double figures both games, this time with ten points.

The last game of the Classic was arguably the most exciting, as La Sierra won on a game-winning jumper from Ryan White with two seconds left in the game.  He finished the day with a game-high 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds.  All-Tournament team selection Cortez Ward scored 12 points and pulled down six boards.  Roshawn Knight also scored 12 points.  Roy Stubbs was also an All-Tournament team member; he finished with seven points and four rebounds before leaving the game with an injury.

Whittier was led by All-Tournament teammates Vernon Covington and Mike Archuletta.  Covington finished with 13 points, six rebounds and three assists.  Archuletta scored 12 points in the loss.  Travis Crow had a team-high 14 points and pitched in with five rebounds and three steals.  Jeff McLean had a game-high five steals for the Poets.