CSUN CAN'T STATE ITS CASE MATADORS TAKE A STEP BACKWARD CS FULLERTON 81, CS NORTHRIDGE 63.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer FULLERTON - The writing on the dusty chalkboard was a bit hard to read but the message was clear. Even after one of the worst home losses of his career last week, Cal State Northridge coach Bobby Braswell Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. took notice of one of the final scores from around the Big West Conference. Cal State Fullerton, everybody's preseason pick to win the conference, had lost to lowly low·ly adj. low·li·er, low·li·est 1. Having or suited for a low rank or position. 2. Humble or meek in manner. 3. Plain or prosaic in nature. adv. 1. UC Riverside and fallen to fifth place. ``Wow, the state schools are having a hard time,'' Braswell remarked at the time. On Saturday afternoon, one of those state schools was assured of a win. But it was the Titans who got a slight reprieve reprieve (rĭprēv`): in law, see pardon. from their late-season swoon with an 81-63 victory over Northridge in front of 757 at Titan Gym Titan Gym is a 3,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Fullerton, California. It is home to the California State University, Fullerton Titans basketball team. This arena was built in 1997. It is also used for hockey and volleyball. . The victory snapped Fullerton's five-game conference losing streak and four-game home losing streak. Jamaal Brown had a game-high 25 points on 12-of-15 shooting for Fullerton (11-10, 4-7). Junior guard Bobby Brown had 15 points, making him the new scoring leader in the Big West Conference. Brown took the scoring title lead away from CSUN's Mike Efevberha, who had just five points in 22 minutes. Efevberha has led the conference in scoring for most of the season, but is in the middle of a woeful woe·ful also wo·ful adj. 1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful. 2. Causing or involving woe. 3. Deplorably bad or wretched: slump. He had just nine points on 3-of-16 shooting in Thursday's game at UC Riverside. On Saturday, he was 2 of 5 from the field. Bobby Brown is now averaging 17.57 points a game, Efevberha is at 17.14 and Jamaal Brown is at 17.09. Northridge (9-12, 3-7) was coming off one of its best performances in three weeks, a 74-56 victory over Riverside on Thursday, so a victory on Saturday would have given the Matadors something to build on. Instead, it was back to the drawing board for Braswell and his staff after the game. ``We're very short-term memory short-term memory n. Abbr. STM The phase of the memory process in which stimuli that have been recognized and registered are stored briefly. right now,'' Braswell said. ``We played great on Thursday against UC Riverside. I was really proud of our effort. And then today, defensively, we were horrendous hor·ren·dous adj. Hideous; dreadful: "Horrendous explosions shook the whole city" Howard Kaplan. . ... I know we're young, but we're not that young.'' After the game, the Matadors seemed disappointed, but not broken. ``I think our confidence is still there,'' senior point guard and captain Bakari Altheimer said. ``I think it's just that we need to be more unselfish at both ends of the floor. ... It's upsetting, but we'll figure it out.'' Jonathan Heard led Northridge with 16 points. Calvin Chitwood and Thomas Shewmake each had 14. Northridge was ahead only once on Saturday, taking a 4-3 lead early in the game. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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