The Book Lady Cajuns basketball 2002-03

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Advertiser-Dan McDonald

LAKE CHARLES - Better shooting, more consistent rebounding, and greater production from the post players ... it's a lot of improvements to ask for in a short amount of time.

But that's the challenge Louisiana head women's basketball coach J. Kelley Hall has put in front of his Lady Cajun squad for tonight's road contest at McNeese State.

The Cajuns (3-10) venture out of Sun Belt Conference play for the next-to-last time this season in tonight's 7 p.m. contest at MSU's Burton Coliseum, and will look to snap a five-game loss streak continued on Saturday in a 65-52 league setback against New Orleans.

Hall, though, saw improvement in his team's Monday drills.

"We responded pretty well," he said. "We're still working on our shooting percentage and rebounding the ball, but I think we'll do those better on Tuesday."

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[RedBug58]

Seems as Mcneese failed to schedule refs.....The same ones from the men's game should have been available.

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LAFAYETTE - One year ago, Anna Petrakova faced a world of uncertainty.

Her 17th birthday found her in a new country with no real friends, surrounded by strangers and trying to adapt to college life as a mid-term enrollee.

She also was thrust into a world of basketball that was foreign to her, trying to pick up in days what the rest of the UL Lafayette women's team had been working on for months. And not only was she expected to catch up in a hurry, but she also was being viewed as a major contributor to a struggling team.

More than one person has run home to the comfort of parents when faced with such challenges. But it's a long run to Russia.

Home and parents were thousands of miles away in Moscow, where Petrakova had only recently graduated from High School 142.

She did have a sister living in Baton Rouge, but there had to be times that the Atchafalaya Basin looked as wide as the Atlantic Ocean that separated her from her loved ones.

"Everything was different," Petrakova said this week. "Just adjusting to the American lifestyle, everything about school, all of it."

But Petrakova's will was just as strong as her athletic 6-foot-3 frame, and opposing players in the Sun Belt Conference are only beginning to discover both of those strengths.

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MIAMI - Louisiana's Lady Cajun basketball team is still looking for its first Sun Belt win of the season.

The Cajun women remained winless in league play, after dropping a 79-48 decision to Florida International on Saturday night in Miami.

A 17-0 run by the Golden Panthers in the opening minutes of the second half spelled doom for the Cajuns.

The second half started with an offensive rebound and basket in the paint by FIU, then a three-pointer by Ivelina Vrancheva - producing a deficit the Cajuns worked hard to trim - but was up to 11 points in just one minute.

The Lady Cajuns fell behind by 23 points with 15:27 left. UL committed five turnovers, not scoring a single point, trailing 53-30 with less than five minutes gone in the second half.

Cormisha Cotton, who had 18 points and seven rebounds last season vs. the Cajuns, led FIU with 20 points and 12 rebounds.

Cotton scored 18 points and grabbed eight boards in the first half. Vrancheva recorded six points and four assists during the FIU 17-0 run and finished the game with 12 points and 11 assists.

Sarah Richey and Sharee Glenn led the Cajuns with 14 points apiece, although both scored 12 points in the first half. Charlotte Green was held to three points, and now needs 42 for 1,000 in her career.

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[sandra]

Geaux Anna !!! By the time Miss Petrakova is a senior, coach Hall will have this program on the right track.

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LAGNIAPPE: The Cajuns have been bolstered by two transfers who will be eligible at the end of the next fall semester.

The two, Candace Jackson of Louisville and Tiffany Washington of Oklahoma State, are enrolled for the spring and working out with the UL Lafayette squad.

Jackson is a six-foot wing who signed with Hall originally at Louisville, but did not play in the fall semester and has four years of eligibility remaining.

Washington, the sister of Cajun men’s player Immanuel Washington, was a prep standout at Franklin and played two years at New Mexico Junior College before signing with Oklahoma State last year. Washington ranked eighth nationally in rebounding (11.0) and 25th nationally in scoring (15.8) as a juco sophomore.

Those two bring the total to eight new players in the program for next season. Hall and his staff signed six players in the early signing period in November.

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LAFAYETTE — Thursday and Saturday will be a homecoming of sorts for Louisiana's womens basketball squad.

The Lady Cajuns haven’t played at Long Gym since Jan. 11, and since that time the facility has undergone several changes including new backboards and goal standards as well as new scoreboards on both ends.

More importantly, head coach J. Kelley Hall is hoping the new boards and rims will help a squad that has struggled mightily on the road with its shooting.

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[RedBug58]

:confused:

Will Tiffiny have one or two years left?

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Originally posted by RedBug58
Will Tiffiny have one or two years left?

Good question Tiffany played in two games this season (33 minutes) before transfering to Louisiana.

Here is Tiffany's Bio

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What do you think of going to E.K. Long Gym to watch the Lady Cajuns take on the Mean Green, while we listen to the men do the same on 107.7 fm.

You can check out the new scoreboards and goals.

Hey we need to show that investing in Louisiana sports pays off.