The Book Lady Cajuns basketball 2002-03

[Louisiana]

8-19

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The Season

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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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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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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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS Opening round of the Flint Hills Resources Islander Classic

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.

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Louisiana 67, Missouri 59
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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 University of Louisiana 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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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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Pre Tournament

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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LOUISIANA

Cincinnati, Ohio

Savannah St.

64 42 LAdy Cajuns take game one of the Bearcat invitational

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Post Game 1 (WIN)

Game One Recap
Charlotte Green and Anna Petrakova combined to score 38 points as Louisiana rolled past Savannah State 64-42 in the first game of the Bearcat Invitational Saturday in Cincinnati.

Green netted 22 points for the Ragin’ Cajuns, two shy of her career high. Petrakova added a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Renee Williams led Savannah State with 10 points.

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Champioship Game

LOUISIANA

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati

55 68 Lady Cajuns finish 2nd in the Bearcat Invitational

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CINCINNATI, Ohio---Carolyn Alexander erupted for a career-high 23 points and added 10 rebounds en route to tournament most valuable player honors as the University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team won the Bearcat Invitational for the seventh time in as many tries, topping Louisiana Lafayette 68-55 on Sunday. The win improves the Bearcats’ record to 7-2, while ULL falls to 3-6 with the defeat.

The Bearcats broke open a one-point game with a 12-0 run over the final four minutes of play to secure the win. Alexander and Valerie King both came up big down the stretch, as each scored five points to push the Bearcats to victory.

Debbie Merrill scored 16 points and added six rebounds, while K.B. Sharp had six points, eight assists and five rebounds to join Alexander on the all-tournament team. ULL’s Charlotte Green (21 points) and Anna Petrakova (16 points, 13 rebounds) were all-tournament choices for the Ragin’ Cajuns.

“Defensively we stepped it up in the second half,” said Bearcat head coach Laurie Pirtle. “We came out lethargic and gave up some easy drives. We definitely turned up the intensity in the second half.”

Brittani Young keyed the Bearcats in the game’s early going, with two baskets helping Cincinnati to a 6-4 lead. Green heated up early for the Cajuns, with a pair of baskets of her own in the first five minutes of play.

With the score knotted at 10 just over five minutes in, ULL pieced together a 7-2 run to open up a five-point advantage. Green continued her assault on the Bearcats with her first triple of the game, while also adding a two-point basket.

After a King score got Cincinnati to back within three, ULL went on another run, this time a 6-0 spurt to open its largest lead of the half at nine, with 7:57 remaining. Petrakova got into the act during this Cajun spurt with two of the four baskets.

Cincinnati scored seven of the next nine points, with Alexander contributing four of those, but a lay-up by Tammie White kept the UL Lafayette lead at 28-21 with 4:09 showing on the clock.

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Congrats to . . .

Charlotte Green

Anna Petrakova

. . . fo their hard work and making the make the BearCat All-Tournament Team.