COC NOTES: 30 POINTS MAGIC FOR COC : SOPHOMORE CONTINUES SCORING HIGH NUMBERS.Byline: Rizza Yap Daily News Staff Writer Maxine Unverferth continued her scoring frenzy last week when the 6-foot sophomore forward scored a team-best 30 points to lift College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. 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 to a 75-62 victory over Moorpark College Moorpark College is a California-state funded community college located on a 134 acre (542,000 m²) property reclining on a hill in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California. . Unverferth, one of four forwards on the team averaging double figures in scoring, is now tied for 16th place on the 13-school Western State Conference individual scoring list. Along with Anjeanette Carr of Allan Hancock, Unverferth is averaging 12.1 points per game. She is the second-leading scorer on the team, behind 6-foot-4 Canyon High graduate Laura Tweedy, who is shooting 13.6 points per contest. Zevette Mitchell averages 11.7 (18th in the WSC WSC Winter Symposium on Chemometrics WSC Winter Simulation Conference WSC Wayne State College WSC Westfield State College (Westfield, MA) WSC Western State College (Colorado) ), while Gohar Tumanian is averaging 11.3 (21st in the WSC). Against the visiting Raiders last Thursday, Unverferth added 18 rebounds to her 30 points, guard Wendy Gussner scored 16 and Tweedy collected 10 points and 10 rebounds. Mitchell - top rebounder in the WSC with an average of 13.1 per game - grabbed 12 rebounds, and guard Narineh Hartoonian posted 11 assists. Hartoonian leads the WSC in assists with an 8.8. average. ``Against Moorpark, we actually stepped up and did well,'' Hartoonian said. ``Shots were going in, and Maxine had 30 points. She's a good player, and she's just going off.'' The tides turned for Canyons two days later however, when the Lady Cougars travelled to Cuesta College Located on the famed California Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway), the Cuesta campus is six miles from the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and six miles from San Luis Obispo (SLO). and returned home with their sixth loss of the season. Plagued by what Hartoonian said was an ``off-shooting night,'' Canyons lost on the road 58-54. ``We were missing everything,'' said Hartoonian, a sophomore who received the first technical foul technical foul n. Sports A foul, especially in basketball, that is called on a player, coach, or team for unsportsmanlike conduct or infringement of a rule and does not usually involve physical contact with an opponent during play. of her collegiate career last Saturday. ``Our defense worked pretty well, but we couldn't get our shots. We were missing easy shots, 2-foot jumpers, wide-open layups. It was horrible.'' This week, the Lady Cougars (12-6) will complete WSC interdivisional play with games against Allan Hancock (7 p.m. today at home), Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. (7 p.m. Thursday on the road) and Ventura (5:30 p.m. Saturday at home). Canyons will kick off WSC South Division action next week, beginning with a matchup against L.A. Valley on Jan. 21. Anticipated rematch: The Lady Cougars' matchup against Ventura College Ventura College is a California-state funded community college located in Ventura, California. Established in 1925, the college has a 112-acre campus with an enrollment of 13,000 students. The college is part of the Ventura County Community College District. marks the first meeting between the two teams since the Pirates defeated Canyons in last year's state championship game. Ventura entered this week with a 19-1 record, while Canyons is 12-6. Both teams lead the WSC in scoring margin. The Pirates are outscoring opponents by an average of 23.9 points, while the Lady Cougars are outscoring theirs by 21.5. Other conference teams with a winning record are outscoring opponents by less than six points. Splitting a pair: Moorpark College snapped the Canyons men's basketball team's five-game winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" when it handed the Cougars an 86-71 loss at Canyons on Saturday. Canyons leading scorer Bryan Finley collected a team-high 23 points, and Woodley Polynice followed with 15. Moses Lindsey, team leader in rebounding with 6.2 per game, grabbed 11 rebounds against the Raiders. Prior to Saturday's loss, Canyons defeated Oxnard 76-63 on the road last Thursday. Today the team faces Cuesta cuesta (kwĕs`tə), asymmetric ridge characterized by a short, steep escarpment on one side, and a long, gentle slope on the other. The steep side exposes the edge of erosion-resistant rock layers that form the cuestas. (13-8) on the road at 7 p.m. On Saturday the Cougars host Allan Hancock at 7 p.m. How they rank: After leading the WSC in scoring last week, Finley enters this week in second place. He is averaging 21.2 points per game, behind Cuesta's Jaron Singletary who is averaging 21.5. Polynice drops from sixth to eighth place with a 16.7 per game clip. He also ranks seventh in 3-point shooting, making 23 of 55 attempts. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) College of the Canyons players Zevette Mitchell, left, Laura Tweedy, Gohar Tumanian and Maxine Unverferth keep COC See chip on chip. in the hunt. Shaun Dyer / Special to the Daily News (2) COC's Moses Lindsey shoots a free throw during a recent practice. Lindsey leads the team in rebounds. Terri Thuente / Daily News |
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