COC POINTS TO NEW HIGHS; WOMEN TOP CENTURY MARK.Byline: Rizza Yap Daily News Staff Writer Last season's highest-scoring women's junior college basketball College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History
WSC Winter Simulation Conference WSC Wayne State College WSC Westfield State College (Westfield, MA) WSC Western State College (Colorado) matchups. ``Historically, our team has always gotten better at this time of the year,'' coach Greg Herrick said. ``We try to get ourselves in position at this point because we want to win conference and secure a top seed for the playoffs.'' On Wednesday, five Lady Cougars scored in double figures en route to a 107-83 home victory against Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . Maxine Unverferth led the way with 30 points, followed by 21 from Laura Tweedy, 18 from Gohar Tumanian, 11 from Zevette Mitchell Mitchell, city (1990 pop. 13,798), seat of Davison co., SE S.Dak.; inc. 1881. Mitchell is a trade, distribution, and shipping center for a dairy and livestock area. and 10 from Stephanie Wasserman. Three days later, a Saturday road game at West L.A. resulted in a 114-42 thrashing thrashing: see threshing. Excessive paging in a virtual memory computer. If programs are not written to run in a virtual memory environment, the operating system may spend excessive amounts of time swapping program pages in and out of the disk. of the Oilers, whose Kanisha Best leads the conference in scoring with 29.4 points per game. Against West L.A., Unverferth scored 14 points to give her a two-game average of 22, shooting 50 percent from the field and 84 percent from the line. Unverferth is not the only Lady Cougar cougar: see puma. cougar or puma or mountain lion or panther Species (Puma concolor) of large, graceful cat that lives in a wide variety of habitats in the Americas, from southern Alaska to Patagonia. to improve her free-throw shooting. As a team, Canyons (19-7, 5-0) was 41 for 48 from the line against Santa Monica and 18 for 23 against West L.A. ``It's like a combination lock - (the numbers) are starting to fall into place,'' Herrick said. Canyons travels to Glendale (12-12, 3-2) today to close out the first round of WSC South Division play. The second half kicks off on Saturday, when the Lady Cougars go on the road again to square off against rival Valley (16-9, 4-1). Both games begin at 5:30 p.m. All about the Benjamins: Scoring 100 or more points is nothing new to the Lady Cougars. Last year, Canyons accomplished the feat 14 times and completed the season with a 95.7 scoring average, the highest in the history of women's junior collegiate col·le·giate adj. 1. Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college. 2. Of, for, or typical of college students. 3. Of or relating to a collegiate church. basketball in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). . Going undefeated in conference seems to be a tradition as well. In the last four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Lady Cougars have recorded three undefeated seasons and a total 39-3 WSC South record. WSC update: Freshman forward Tweedy is averaging 19.4 points per game to place second in the WSC South scoring leader list. Unverferth's 16.8 ppg is tied for fifth, while Tumanian is ninth with 14.6 ppg and Mitchell rounds out the top 10 with 13.2 ppg. Mitchell leads the conference in rebounding with 14.1 per game. Unverferth's 54.8 percent shooting from the field also is tops, as is Narineh Hartoonian's 8.8 assists per game. Streak snapped: The Canyons men's basketball team collected its first win in the last seven games by defeating host West L.A. 83-63 last Saturday. Woodley Polynice paced the offense with 20 points, followed by 18 from Moses Lindsey, 11 from Charles Madison and 10 from Rahsard Walker. Sophomore guard Bryan Finley, who usually scores in double figures, posted nine points. ``Finley didn't take very many shots, and he didn't need to because everybody else was doing their share,'' coach Lee Smelser said. The victory against West L.A. followed a tough 77-62 home loss to Santa Monica last Wednesday. In that contest, Finley scored a team-best 20 points, while Polynice and Lindsey each posted 11. Lindsey also registered nine rebounds and six blocks against Santa Monica; at West L.A. he collected 13 rebounds. ``We're getting a little more solid,'' Smelser said. ``Lindsey had his best back-to-back games this week, and Walker and Madison have been playing pretty steady now, game in and game out.'' On Wednesday, the Cougars (9-14, 1-3) will face Glendale (12-11, 2-2) on the road at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, they visit Valley (19-6, 3-1) to start the second round of league action. Top scorers: Polynice and Finley, the only two sophomores on the Canyons team, rank in the top 10 of the WSC South's scoring leaders. Polynice is in eighth place with a 15.3 ppg mark, and Finley is No. 9, averaging 13.8 per game. Including interdivisional play, however, Finley is in second place with a 20.2 average. Meanwhile, Lindsey's seven rebounds per game is good enough for ninth place in the WSC. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) ``We try to get ourselves in position at this point because we want to win conference and secure a top seed for the playoffs. . . . It's like a combination lock - (the numbers) are starting to fall into place.'' - Greg Herrick COC See chip on chip. 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. coach (2) Woodley Polynice, left, is eighth in WSC South scoring (15.3) and Bryan Finley, right, is ninth (13.8). Terri Thuente / Daily News |
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