CSUN HOOPS LOSE ANOTHER CLOSE ONE L.B. STATE 72, CSUN 59.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 LONG BEACH - There has come a point in all but one Cal State Northridge 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. game when it becomes obvious the Matadors will not have enough to win. As the Matadors improve, that moment seems to be coming later and later with each game. But it still arrives, and it still hurts. In Thursday night's 72-59 loss to Long Beach State at the Pyramid pyramid, structure pyramid. The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face the points of the , the Matadors (1-16, 1-5) stayed close to the Big West Conference-leading 49ers (7-8, 4-0) until 3:45 remaining in the second half. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge freshman center Heather Cushing hit two free throws to cut the lead to 57-51 and the Matadors' full-court press full-court press n. 1. Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense. 2. trapped Candice Wilson in the corner and forced her into a charging call, flashing the glimmer of an upset through the raucous rau·cous adj. 1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter. 2. Boisterous and disorderly: "the raucous give and take of American democracy" Northridge bench. That glimmer proved fleeting on the next possession as Wilson blew past the Matadors' press for a layup, and conference scoring leader Glory Johnson put in an easy basket from to put the lead up to 10. Johnson and Wilson both finished with a team-high 18 points. ``Heather's free throws put us in contention, but we just needed one more defensive stop,'' CSUN coach Tammy Holder said. ``It really deflates you when somebody scores an easy bucket on a full-court press situation where its like, `Man, all that work and then we give up that easy one.' '' CSUN freshman guard Ofa Tulikihihifo had her sixth double-double of the year with 19 points and 10 rebounds and was cheered by her former teammates from Redondo Union High who had made the short trip to the Pyramid. Northridge was able to outrebound Long Beach 49-33, but Holder said that was canceled out by the Matadors' 28 turnovers. ``That stat stat adv. With no delay. adj. Immediate. STAT Stat! Clinical medicine adverb Fast, quickly, immediately, schnell, vite Lab medicine noun can be a little misleading,'' she said. ``Most teams are shooting over 50 percent against us so there's not as many rebounds for them to get. But still, the effort is there, and I've got to respect our young ladies for never giving up.'' |
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