WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: FALL CONTINUES FOR TROJANS WASHINGTON 87, USC 79 (2 0T).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 The lights will dim one final time Saturday afternoon at the Sports Arena when the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 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 plays its final home game at the aging arena. Thursday night, in the Trojans' penultimate pe·nul·ti·mate adj. 1. Next to last. 2. Linguistics Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress. n. The next to the last. game here, the lights may have dimmed a bit on their post-season hopes. USC dropped into fifth place in the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members with a 87-79 double-overtime loss to Washington in front of 627. USC rallied from a 13-point, second-half deficit but that furious comeback seemed to take its toll later on. Washington outscored the Trojans 11-3 in the second overtime to pull away. ``You can't get too high or too low with as tight as the race is now,'' Washington coach June Daugherty Is an American womens college basketball coach at Washington State University. She was previously the head coach at Boise State University from 1990-1996 and the University of Washington from 1997-2007 and has a career record of 314-213. said. ``But obviously this was a huge victory for us.'' Cameo Hicks Hicks , Edward 1780-1849. American painter of primitive works, notably The Peaceable Kingdom, of which nearly 100 versions exist. led Washington with 25 points, five rebounds and four assists. Eshaya Murphy Eshaya "Shay" Murphy (born April 15 1985, in Canoga Park, California) is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. Murphy attended college at USC and graduated in 2007. led USC with 24 points, eight rebounds and four steals. Camille LeNoir added 20 points, but had the wrong kind of double-double with 10 turnovers. Washington out-rebounded USC 64-49, including 32 offensive rebounds. The Huskies scored 31 second-chance points to the Trojans' 14. The Trojans ended Washington's 12-game, home-winning streak Jan. 14 with a 64-61 victory in Seattle that vaulted them near the top of the conference standings. But it's been a rather painful month since that victory. USC has lost two starters for the season due to injury and dropped four of its past six games. The Trojans scored the first four points of overtime on baskets by LeNoir and Murphy, but allowed the Huskies to get back into it with poor defensive rebounding. Washington forward Breanne Watson scored four consecutive second-chance lay-ups in the overtime to rally the Huskies. Whatever advantage USC yielded to the Huskies though, they quickly gave right back. Hicks, who had been solid at the free throw line all night, missed two foul shots with 20 seconds remaining in the first overtime and the score knotted at 76. Kristen O'Neill stepped into a passing lane and stole the ball outside the 3-point arc, then found Emily Florence streaking down the right side for a fast break opportunity. The second overtime was all Washington. The Trojans' only points came on a 3-pointer by Jamie Hagiya that cut the lead to 80-79 with 2:47 remaining, but the Huskies went on an 8-0 run to close out the game. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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