After a slow start, Weber State used a 29-6 run over 11 minutes to pull away from the visitors for a 40-13 lead, ending that stretch with a 13-0 stint, capped on a dunk by Trevor Hennig.

True freshman guard Duce Paschal led five double-digit Weber State (6-7) scorers with 14 points. Fellow freshman ArDarius Grayson totaled 13 points, five rebounds and three assists. Hennig scored 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting; he’s 12 of 14 in his last two games.

Tijan Saine Jr. and Jace Whiting each scored 10 points, with Whiting adding five assists. All 12 players who appeared scored at least four points, including six from Brady Smith and four from Bourgeois Tshilobo.

WSU head coach Eric Duft said Monday afternoon’s game was scheduled to simulate the usual conference schedule after the club’s loss Saturday night to Utah Tech and, for the most part, his team responded the way they needed.

“If you’re not into it and playing the way we want to, and your energy’s not there, then we’ll just sub you out. And our guys responded,” he said.

Paschal added five rebounds, four assists and four steals to his career-high scoring night.

“He’s getting a lot better. You can feel his presence out there defensively and his athleticism, his ability to get deflections, be in the gaps, guard the ball … these last couple of weeks, he’s really made some strides and that should help us in conference,” Duft said.

Lincoln got 20 points from Brandon Williams and 18 from Laolu Kalejaiye. Kalejaiye made four of his team’s nine 3-pointers and is a player with a 38-point game against Pepperdine on his ledger this season.

“This team, they’re not a Division I team but they still have some good players. No. 11 (Kalejaiye) is as good a shooter as we’ll play against. He had 12 3s against Pepperdine,” Duft said. “You still have to be ready to play. … Our message to our guys was if you’re not locked into play, you won’t play well.

“I thought in the second half, we kind of lost our mindset a little bit but … we got through it what we needed to get done and now we’ll move on and have a good Christmas break, let them see their families, get back and get to work.”

Players who will travel mostly left Monday night, if not Tuesday morning, and will return by Friday night. The Wildcats will then have five days to prepare for the start of conference play. WSU opens the league schedule on New Year’s Day with a stiff test when hosting Portland State, and welcomes Sacramento State to Ogden on Saturday, Jan. 3.