6 Sports
March 17, 2005 pcc-courieronline.com Vol. 91, Issue 5
Lancers No. 2 in State Tournament
Mario Aguirre
Asst. Sports Editor
The season wasn't supposed to end like
this for the PCC women's basketball team.
Not after almost going through the entire sea¬
son undefeated, winning 29 of their last 30
contests prior to the championship game. It
was hard to image that the Lancers would
have a difficult time against the No. 4-seeded
Cypress College Chargers when playing for
the state title. But the unimaginable did occur
Sunday afternoon as the Chargers upset the
Lancers 69-65 at the University of San
Diego's Jenny Craig Pavilion.
This was the second consecutive year that
the Lancers made it to the final game but
lost in the COA California Community
Colleges Championships.
The Lancers entered the playoffs ranked
No. 1 in the state and were highly favored to
win it all this season. Unfortunately, they
dug themselves a hole at the start the game,
trailing 10-2, as they took nearly three min¬
utes to score their first basket. On a couple
of possessions the Lancers had difficultly
trying to get an open look and lost most of
the time on the shot clock before taking a
low-percentage shot. In the first half the
Lancers shot 27 percent from the field com¬
pared to the Chargers' 48.4 percent. The
Chargers took high-percentage shots in the
paint while the Lancers were 3-for-15 from
the 3-point line at halftime.
Lancer sophomore guard Dionne
Pounds scored 4 points by halftime, making
only one of nine field goal attempts and
shooting 0-for-3 from behind the 3-point
arc. At the end of the first half, the Lancers
were trailing 38-26.
The Lancers began the second half with
more intensity, especially on the defensive
end. Although the Chargers opened by scor¬
ing the first bucket and building their lead to
40-26, the Lancers held them scoreless for
the next 10 minutes.
Pounds drew an offensive foul. Lancer
sophomore guard/forward Annette
Johansen hit a 3-pointer. On the next pos¬
session Pounds dished a pass from behind
the 3-point line to Johansen who was open
for an easy bucket under the basket.
Cypress got called for traveling and
Lancer sophomore guard Megan Okui took
advantage of the next possession by scoring
a 3-pointer with 14:50 to go in the game.
On the Chargers' next possession, the
Lancers stole the ball, and Pounds scored in
deep to cut the deficit to 40-36. The
Chargers called a timeout, and the Lancer
crowd began making some noise.
The frustration of not scoring showed as
the Chargers committed unnecessary fouls.
Lancer sophomore forward/center Natasha
Gray scored an easy layup under the basket.
Teammate Monique Diaz attempted to do
the same, taking a pass from Pounds on her
way to cutting toward the basket. Diaz was
fouled on the play and converted both free
throws to tie the game at 40-40 with 1 1 min¬
utes to play.
Freshman guard Jeanine Deno complet¬
ed a 16-0 run by the Lancers, snagging a
defensive rebound and scoring on the other
end, giving the Lancers their first lead of the
game, 42-40.
Pounds' effort to rally a Lancer come¬
back did not show up on the stat sheet. She
sacrificed her body by drawing offensive
charges, diving for loose-ball scrambles and
saving the ball from going out of bounds.
Despite opening the half on an 18-2 run,
the Lancers saw their last tie at 52, with
5:09 left in the game. From that point on,
the Chargers slowly took, over building a
lead that the Lancers weren t able to over-
j
come.
The Lancers lost the game in the last
minute of regulation 61-56 with 49.6 sec¬
onds left in the game. They failed to convert
shots when they needed them the most and
were forced to foul the Chargers multiple
times.
Pounds single-handedly tried to get the
Lancers back in the game, but it was too
late.
“They were really intense,” Lancer head
coach Joe Peron said of the Chargers who
out-rebounded them 51-42. “They were
ready to go and today we didn't match their
intensity.”
“There was something missing,” Pounds
said. “We weren't as intense as we usually
are. We weren't moving the ball well and we
didn't get into our offense and I take a lot of
that responsibility.”
“Of course they're sad,” Peron said.
“The disappointment is there.”
Pounds finished the game with 13 points
and four rebounds. She shot 4-for-20 from
the field and 2-for-9 from 3-point range.
Gray had a big game for the Lancers with
11 points and 12 rebounds.
The Chargers shot 43.6 percent from the
field, while the Lancers made 32 percent of
their shots. The Lancers made 27.8 percent
of their shots from the 3-point line while the
Chargers shot 35.3 percent from there.
The night before in the round the
Lancers played in a physical game against
the Antelope Valley College Marauders.
The Marauders began by scoring the first
four points of the game. Then the Lancers
went on a 17-9 run after a series of second
Women’s Basketball
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William Hallstrom/ Courier
Lancer Samina Henry goes for a layup to score in the semifinal
game against Antelope Valley on March 12.
Kenny Kimura/ Courier
Lancer action at the State
Championship Tournament in San
Diego March 11-13. The team made it
to the finals at the Jenny Craig Pavilion
for the second straight year.
Kenny Kimura
/
Courier
William Hallstrom/ Courier
Kenny Kimura /Courier
Pounds leaves while the Chargers celebrate victory.
William Hallstrom
/
Courier
Kenny Kimura
/
Courier
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