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This Week In Warrior Athletics
November 20, 2006
EVENTS:
Men’s basketball:
Cannon’s Building Material Center Tournament
at LCSC Activity Center – Friday: Montana
State-Northern vs. Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.;
LCSC vs. Corban College, 8 p.m.; Saturday:
Montana State-Northern vs. Corban College, 6
p.m.; LCSC vs. Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Women’s basketball:
At Holy Names University Thanksgiving
Classic in Oakland – Friday: LCSC vs. Holy
Names University, 6 p.m.; Saturday: LCSC vs.
Dominican University, 4 p.m.
Men’s
basketball:
The highest-ranked men’s
basketball team to visit the LCSC Activity
Center will happen this week during the
four-team Cannon’s Building Material Center
Tournament. Oklahoma City, which finished
second in last year’s NAIA national
tournament, is ranked No. 2 in the current
NAIA poll.
The Stars will take on
Montana State-Northern Friday at 6 p.m.,
followed by LCSC and Corban College of
Salem, Ore., at 8 p.m. In the pre-determined
format so that the two Frontier Conference
schools won’t face each other, MSU-Northern
will meet Corban at 6 p.m. on Saturday,
followed by LCSC and Oklahoma City at 8 p.m.
The Stars stand at 5-0
overall and will play host to Sterling of
Kansas on Tuesday night before departing for
the Lewiston tournament. Last season, the
Stars overcame a 6-5 start with a 14-game
win streak and eventually finished 29-8
under first-year coach Ray Harper and a spot
in the title game, the program’s fifth
appearance. OCU won national titles in 1991,
’92, ’94 and ’96.
Harper coached at
Kentucky-Wesleyan prior to OCU and led the
team to six consecutive appearances in the
NCAA Division II national championship game.
During his career, he record five
consecutive 30-plus win seasons during
1998-2002 and reached 200 victories in just
224 games.
LCSC brings a 2-2 record into
the contest, while Corban stands 1-4 on the
season with a game on Tuesday against
Linfield College prior to the tournament.
Montana State-Northern is 3-4 overall.
The Warriors, who are coming
off an 85-70 exhibition loss, are led in
scoring by Mike Gordy. He’s averaging 19.3
points per game, while Teran Lee is
averaging 11.0. Gordy also tops the team in
rebounding at 5.5 per outing.
Women’s basketball:
Fresh off a 2-0 finish in its
own Staples Classic tournament, the Warriors
look to keep rolling when they take part in
the Holy Names University Thanksgiving
Classic this weekend in Oakland, Calif.
The Warriors meet the host
school on Friday at 6 p.m., following a
matchup between Fresno Pacific and Dominican
University of San Rafael, Calif. On
Saturday, LCSC will play Dominican at 4
p.m., followed by Holes Names and Fresno
Pacific at 6 p.m.
Holy Names stands 2-4 on the
season heading into a Monday night contest
with the Oregon Institute of Technology,
while Dominican is 3-3. Fresno Pacific is
5-0 with a game against Hope International
on Tuesday night.
The Warriors are 5-0 and
ranked 10th in the NAIA. Senior
post Ashley Baker leads the team in scoring
and rebounding with average of 17.4 and 8.0,
respectively. Janeen Nelson is averaging
14.4 points and is coming off an MVP
performance in the Staples Classic. She was
joined on the Classic’s all-tournament team
by Katie Hart. Mandy Troutt is adding 10
points per game off the bench.
The next home game for the
LCSC women will be in the Wells Fargo
Classic when they play host to Simon Fraser
University at 6 p.m. on Dec. 8. |
