Beaver women open season.Byline: The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - The Oregon State women's basketball Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with men's. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. team opens the regular season today against a neighbor, Western Oregon This article is about the region of Western Oregon. For the University, see Western Oregon University. Western Oregon is a geographical term that is generally taken to apply to the portion of the state of Oregon that is west of the Cascade Range. from nearby Monmouth. The Beavers, who swept to two easy exhibition wins, and the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Wolves are scheduled for a 2 p.m. tipoff at Gill Coliseum. Oregon State and Western Oregon are meeting for the sixth time (OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. leads the series 3-2) but it is the first game matching the teams since the 1978-79 season when the Beavers took two games from the Wolves. Oregon State, which plays at Portland on Tuesday, has won four straight season openers and nine of the last 10. The Beavers were 17-15 last season. Western Oregon was 16-11. Scheduled starters for OSU are Juleen Smith, a 5-foot-5 sophomore, and Leilani Estavan, a 5-7 junior, at guards; 5-11 senior Michelle Smith and 6-2 junior Hollye Chapman at forwards, and 6-5 junior Brina Chaney at center. Western's lineup includes guards Darcy Hodges (5-7 junior) and Erica Matthews (5-7 senior), forwards Buffy Hummel hummel entire, naturally polled deer. (5-8 junior) and Serenity Ragone (6-0 sophomore), and center Amanda Johnson (5-10 junior). Oregon State senior post Kristina Rukstelyte has been cleared to play following surgery on her right knee. Sophomore guard Jessica Jones is listed as questionable for today's game because of an ailing shoulder. |
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