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<center><h4><a href="https://forumeus.com/ragepage/basketball-w.htm">The Season</a></h4>
<blockquote><p align=justify>Advertisers-Dan McDonald
LAFAYETTE - One game, an exhibition game at that, does not a season make.
Louisiana head women's basketball coach J. Kelley Hall would be the first to admit that, but he also found plenty to be happy about in his squad's 64-38 thrashing of Henderson State in Wednesday's exhibition contest.
"For a first game, I was really proud," said the first-year Ragin' Cajun coach. "The effort was there, and I thought we did a lot of good things."
The Cajun squad didn't look much like a first-time-out unit, storming out to a 16-4 lead in the game's first 10 minutes. The squad also didn't look much like last year's 7-21 unit in popping a Henderson squad that beat Sun Belt Conference member Arkansas-Little Rock 73-51 last week.
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UL held the Reddies to 10 field goals and a 19.6 shooting mark, and Henderson didn't get anything other than a layup or a free throw until the 17:25 mark of the second half when Kayla Madewell hit a three-point jumper. No HSU player had more than five points.
"We had hammered the defense a little harder over the last couple of days," said Hall. "I think we intimidated them some early, and once you do that it gets harder and harder to score. We didn't let up defensively at all."
A familiar pair led the way for the Cajun squad, with Charlotte Green recording 16 points and 10 rebounds to take game honors in both. Sarah Richey added 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots.
Newcomer Sharee Glenn had 11 points off the bench, and returnees Brooke Williams and Anna Petrakova each had nine rebounds as the Cajuns took a 50-31 board advantage.
UL Lafayette finished at 42.1 percent from the field, but was around the 50 percent mark until the game's final five minutes.
"We tried to do a lot of offensive stuff early," said Hall. "They were taking away our right side, so we stayed with our base offense. They're a good defensive team, but I thought we did a good job offensively and had some new people step in and play well."
Vangela Menter (six points) and Ashley Blanche (five) drew praise from Hall, as did Petrakova, who played only sparingly last year.
"They're picking things up for us," Hall said. "We had only 10 available players, so I'm extremely proud of the way they hung in."
Hall will need some of those new players to step up, especially since Green - who has scored almost 600 points over the last two seasons - will undergo an MRI on her knee today. Hall said that Green, one of his three seniors, will be sidelined anywhere from two to six weeks.
"They won't know until they get in there and see," he said, "but we're hoping for the best."
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<blockquote><p align=justify>Advertiser - Dan McDonald
LAFAYETTE - Louisiana's women's basketball coaches told their Lady Cajun squad that Saturday's exhibition game would be a big test.
It became an even bigger test only three minutes in, when leading scorer and rebounder Sarah Richey picked up the second of what would be game-long foul trouble. The Cajuns were already without the services of three-year starting guard Charlotte Green, who will undergo an MRI on her knee Tuesday.
"We expected it to be ugly,' said head coach J. Kelley Hall.
What Hall found, though, was that the rest of the squad was prepared to step forward, and it was that group that provided a 73-65 win over the Houston Jaguars Saturday.
The Cajuns, taking their second exhibition win in preparation for Friday's season opener, had five different players score eight or more points. And, with Richey saddled with foul trouble, the front-line duo of Brooke Williams and Anna Petrakova combined for 32 points and 16 rebounds while making 12 of 16 shots.
"It was like pulling teeth sometime,' said Hall, "but we told our kids that this was going to be a different kind of test. This team was more experienced and had good shooters.'
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The Cajuns only led by six points with 4:42 left before Vangela Menter hit a driving jumper and Richey followed up her own miss moments later for a 69-61 lead. Houston's Tracey Bovgere hit a three-pointer with 39 seconds left to make it a four-point game, but Tammie White and Sharee Glenn each hit two free throws in the last half-minute for the final margin.
"I was glad to see us hit the free throws late,' Hall said. "We're going to be in that situation, and we've got to learn to make them.'
UL Lafayette hit on 23-of-32 from the line and also took a 47-41 rebound advantage with Williams getting 12, six on the offensive end.
"She does all the dirty work,' Hall said, "and Anna came off the bench and gave us a big lift. Sarah didn't get to play her game, so without her I was proud that we outrebounded them.'
Menter and Glenn each added nine points to the Cajun total, while Ashley Blanche had eight and Richey seven in the balanced effort. The Cajuns also rallied back from a 33 percent shooting mark at halftime to hit 15-of-32 shots in the second half.
UL Lafayette trailed 23-22 four minutes before halftime before going on a 12-0 run in a period of 72 seconds. The first 10 of those points came on free throws, and White's steal and layup provided a 34-23 lead.
The Cajuns never trailed again and led by as many as 13 early in the second half on freshman Blanche's back-to-back baskets.
"We got pretty good play from a freshman point guard,' Hall said. "I thought we got good play from a lot of people. When we ran our press offense, we executed it, and we played good defense. Defensive transition's a problem, but we haven't worked on that. We're going to keep gearing up our defense.'
The Cajuns open their regular season Friday against Nicholls State at 7 p.m. in Long Gym.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>Advertisers-Dan McDonald
LAFAYETTE - The fact that his UL's women's basketball team is holding opponents to only 61.0 points per game is small consolation to head coach J. Kelley Hall.
That's because his team has yet to score over 57 points in either of its first two games heading into tonight's first round of the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islander Classic.
"We're just going to concentrate on getting better day by day," Hall said. "It's not going to be the same old thing around here. We're going to compete."
The Cajuns have been competitive through two games, falling in the final second to Nicholls State 59-57 in the opener and losing to Memphis 63-50 Monday night in a game that saw the visitors haul down 25 offensive rebounds.
"We've spent a lot of time working on that, boxing out," said Hall, "because Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has a very big team.
A&M-CC provides the opposition for the Cajuns in tonight's second first-round game at 7 p.m. SMU and Missouri open the tournament at 5 p.m. today, and the winners square off at 7 p.m. Saturday for the tournament title. The consolation game is 5 p.m. Saturday.
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The Cajuns go into the tournament as the only squad with a loss. Host A&M-CC is 2-0 after wins over Texas-San Antonio (67-59) and Texas-Arlington (54-51), while SMU is 2-0 and Missouri is 1-0.
Hall said that his team will look to avoid early-game struggles in its weekend outings. The Cajuns have fallen behind early in each of their first two contests, rallying from a 22-point first-half deficit to take a late lead over Nicholls and trailing by double digits in the first half against Memphis.
"We knew Memphis would press us, slow it down and pound the ball inside," Hall said. "We have to get the game played at a higher rate of speed, and I think we can do that against Corpus Christi. They've had winning records, but they present a different type of challenge. I think we can go back to our pressure game against them."
Junior college guard Sharee Glenn had 18 points to lead the Cajuns against Memphis and is averaging 17.5 per contest to pace the squad. Returnee senior Sarah Richey is averaging 10.0 points and 5.5 rebounds and Anna Petrakova is at 9.5 points per game.
Senior guard Charlotte Green saw her first action of the year against Memphis and had seven points and six rebounds.
The Islanders are paced by 6-foot-2 senior center Kristin Rogers, who is averaging 15.5 points per game, and 6-foot-1 junior forward Anna Hartzell with a 10.5 average. A&M-CC starts three six-footers in its regular lineup.
The Cajuns take a break for final examinations after the tournament and won't return to action until Monday, Dec. 9, when they travel to face nationally-ranked Louisiana Tech. The next home game is Wednesday, Dec. 11, against Southeastern Louisiana.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS <b>Opening round of the Flint Hills Resources Islander Classic</b>
Louisiana's Sarah Richey led the Lady Cajuns with 12 points and 2 blocks.
UL's defensive gem Charlotte Green hauled in a game-high 9 boards, scored 6 points, and notched 5 steals in the loss.
It was not nearly enough however as Anna Hartzell of the undefeated Texas A&M Islanders scored 19 points, including drilling five three pointers, to pace the Corpus Christi team to a 64-42 win over Louisiana-La.
Hartzell, who had 7 points at the break, hit four straight three pointers during a three and half minute span in the second half to ignite A&M-CC to a 18-4 run to blow the game open at 57-37 with 6:30 remaining.
Mandie Vinck (Chula Vista, Calif.) dished off 8 assists and recorded 5 steals on the night. The senior guard is averaging 4.6 steals per game this season.
Kristin Rogers (Sand Springs, Okla.) and Roberta Plaza (Brooklyn, N.Y.) each added 9 points in the win. Plaza pulled down a team-high 7 boards.
With the win, the 3-0 Islanders advance to the championship game of the Flint Hills Resources for the fourth consecutive year.
The 0-3 Lady Cajuns, turned the ball over 18 times on the night, while forcing just 11 Islander miscues.
<blockquote><p align=justify>Louisiana 67, Missouri 59
Associated Press
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas AP) - Charlotte Green scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead Louisiana to a 67-59 victory over Missouri Saturday in the consolation game at the Islander Classic.
The Ragin' Cajuns shot 59.3 percent in the first half and led 41-27 at halftime. Sharee Glenn scored 13 of her 19 points before the break.
Evan Unrau scored 16 points and Terianne Wolford added 14 for the Tigers (2 (2)-.
Missouri outrebounded Louisiana-Lafayette 45-27, but the Tigers shot just 33.9 percent and Ragin' Cajuns made 48 percent of their shots, including 10-of-16 from 3-point range.
Melanie Fisher had a game-high 14 rebounds for Missouri.
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Congratulations to Coach Hall on your first <b>University of Louisiana</b> victory. First of many.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Louisiana's women's basketball squad has faced some rugged tests in the opening stages of the 2002-03 season, and another one is on tap tonight.
The Cajun women will be on the road to face 18th-ranked South Carolina (7-0) in a 6 p.m. battle at the Carolina Center.
USC (7-0) took a 65-50 win over Middle Tennessee on Monday, and has beaten its first seven opponents by an average of over 23 points per game.
Only one game, a 54-51 win over Boston College in the finals of the Paradise Jams tournament, has been decided by single digits.
The Cajuns have won two of their last three after opening the season with three straight losses. UL Lafayette took a 48-45 home win over Southeastern Louisiana last Wednesday in a game that was not as close as the final score.
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The Cajuns also downed Missouri 67-59 prior to an 81-50 loss at Louisiana Tech.
"Missouri was a turning point for us,' said Cajun coach J. Kelley Hall. "That's the first game that we really executed pretty well offensively. Southeastern was an ugly win, but I told our players not to be afraid to win a low-scoring game.'
Senior Charlotte Green had 17 points in that win, 12 in the second half, and leads the team with a 14.2 average. Senior center Sarah Richey added 16 points and 14 rebounds in that win and is at 13.2 and 7.0 respectively, with that pair teaming for 33 of UL Lafayette's 48 points.
in the win.
South CX¹olina's Gamecocks, off to their best start since 1981, are led by Naismith Award candidate Jocelyn Penn, who led the nation in scoring as of last week and is still averaging 28.4 per contest. The senior gunned in 50 points in a 99-46 destruction of Wofford on Dec. 4, which was USC's last game before a 12-day exams break ended in Monday's win over Middle Tennessee.
The Cajuns open a three-game road trip tonight and will travel from South Carolina to Cincinnati to take part in the Bearcat Invitational Saturday and Sunday.
UL Lafayette will meet Savannah State at 1 p.m. Saturday in the tournament opener and will meet either host Cincinnati or Bowling Green on Sunday.
The next home appearance for the Cajuns is Jan. 4 when they open Sun Belt Conference play against New Mexico State at Long Gym.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>AP-Advertiser
COLUMBIA, S.C. - UL coach J. Kelley Hall had one question for his players at halftime.
"How many of you hit a two-point field goal?" he asked. "Raise your hand."
None went up. That's what happens when you shoot 2-of-22 (9.1 percent) in the opening period and miss your first 16 two-point tries as the Ragin' Cajuns did in a 70-41 loss to No. 18 South Carolina on Wednesday night.
"I've never been through anything like it," he said.
Few coaches have.
"Our team knew exactly what they were going to see and they went out and executed the defensive game plan very well," South Carolina coach Susan Walvius said.
Jocelyn scored 25 points - three fewer than her average - as the Gamecocks (8-0) continued on their best start since going 9-0 in 1988-89. But it was the defensive effort that carried them in this one.
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Everything went South Carolina's way in the first half.
"We came out scared and not ready to play," the Cajuns' Sarah Richey said. "It was sickening."
South Carolina guard Kelly Morrone hit her first four 3-pointers, Penn continually beat the Rajun' Cajuns down the court for easy baskets on the way to 16 points in the period, and Louisiana-Lafayette (2-5) managed only two 3-pointers.
The Ragin' Cajuns, playing for the first time in a week, committed 15 turnovers in the opening half and finally broke their two-point skid when Richey's simple 13-footer rattled in with 17:42 remaining in the game.
Hall, in his first season as Cajuns' coach, tried early to keep the dam from breaking, calling two timeouts in the first four minutes. But South Carolina could not be slowed.
Penn's inside shot made it 17-2 with 16:01 to go. Three minutes later, Morrone had her fourth 3-pointer and Penn another basket and the lead was 24-5.
UL Lafayette closed things to 24-11 on Charlotte Green's 3-pointer with 9:29 left in the half and looked like it might recover from South Carolina's opening run.
"I thought we were going to be OK after that," Hall said. "But then they scored something like the next 16 points."
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<h3>Pre Tournament</h3><blockquote><p align=justify>SCOUTING LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
Louisiana has an overall record of 2-5, following a 70-41 loss at nationally-ranked South Carolina Wednesday (Dec. 18)
Prior to that setback, the Ragin' Cajuns had won two of the last three games, with wins over Missouri (67-59; Nov. 30) and Southeastern Louisiana (48-45; Dec. 11)
UL's other losses have come against Nicholls State, Memphis, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Louisiana Tech
Individually, senior guard Charlotte Green leads the team with 13.2 points per game, and also has 6.7 rebounds to tie for the team lead
Senior forward Sarah Richey has 13.0 points and 6.6 boards per game, while junior guard Sharee Glenn has 10.7 points
Junior guard Tammie White has 3.4 points and leads the Cajuns with 3.1 assists per outing
Senior forward Brooke Williams (1.6 ppg, 3.7 rpg) rounds out the probable starters
J. Kelley Hall is in his first season as a collegiate head coach, he has 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team
That squad finished 7-21 overall and placed sixth in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference with a 1-14 league record.
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