CSUN GETS WIN IN OT CSUN 62, UC RIVERSIDE 58.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 ANAHEIM - Ofa Tulikihihifo spent most of the past two weeks convincing herself she could play in the Big West Conference 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. tournament even though the pain from the partially torn ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. in her left knee told her otherwise. For the first half of Thursday's quarterfinal game against UC Riverside, it looked as if Tulikihihifo might have been kidding herself. Her knee was gimpy gimp 1 n. A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming. Also called guimpe, guipure. [Perhaps from French guimpe; see guimpe. , her game looked tentative and her shot was short. But as the game wore on, Tulikihihifo regained the form that's made her a first-team all-conference selection three times, scoring 13 of her 14 points in the second half and overtime of Cal State Northridge's 62-58 victory over the Highlanders at the Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim Convention Center is a major convention center in Anaheim, California. It is located across from the Disneyland Resort on Katella Avenue. Much of the Anaheim Convention Center has been renovated in recent years with state-of-the-art facilities. . ``In the beginning, I think I was just tentative and the fatigue kicked in real quick,'' said Tulikihihifo, who has missed the past six games because of the injury. ``But as it got closer, I realized right now isn't the time to be thinking about (my knee). It's now or never.'' Tulikihihifo scored eight of Northridge's 12 points in overtime, including two free throws with 11 seconds remaining to seal the victory. It was Northridge's first victory in the Big West tournament in school history. They will play top-seeded UC 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. in the semifinals at noon today. The Matadors (18-10) haven't beaten UCSB UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB University of Casual Sex and Beer since 1984. At the end of regulation, Northridge looked like it wouldn't get the chance to avenge a·venge tr.v. a·venged, a·veng·ing, a·veng·es 1. To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge: avenge a murder. 2. its 13-game losing streak to the Gauchos. Riverside's Cassandra Reeves hit a desperation 3-pointer with three seconds left, sending the game into overtime and giving Riverside (16-13) all the momentum. A quick basket from Tulikihihifo ended that momentum quickly and Northridge never trailed again. ``It was an ugly game, but we'll take that ugly game as a win any day,'' Northridge coach Tammy Holder said. ``We obviously didn't want them to shoot of take a 3-pointer and that was a really good look. But it happened and that's what makes games exciting. We certainly didn't want to go to overtime, but the good guys won.'' --Idaho 63, UC Irvine 50: Leilani Mitchell had 27 points, seven assists and seven steals to lead the third-seeded Vandals in a semifinal victory over the sixth-seeded Anteaters. Idaho will play second-seeded Long Beach State in the semifinals at 2:30 p.m. today. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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