‘Eaters toppled
BREN EVENTS CENTER -- The Creighton women’s basketball team
started the game with a 13-0 lead and never looked back as the
Bluejays ran past host UC Irvine, 80-57, in a nonconference game
Friday night.
The loss snaps a four-game Anteater winning streak as UCI falls to
5-2. Creighton improves to 6-2.
Creighton played 13 players and 10 scored. Dayna Finch led the
balanced attack with 13 points.
Guard Lisa Faulkner paced UCI with 11 points, including going
6-for-6 from the foul line. Wendy Gabbe had 10 pints and Christina
Callaway had nine points and eight rebounds.
UCI was held to a season-low 57 points, and gave up a season-high
80 points.
Creighton hit 53.8% from the floor and 63.6 from three-point
territory.
UCI returns to action tonight at 7 against the Air Force.
Nonconference
Creighton 80, UCI 57
Creighton -- Wessling 7, Burns 4, Spanheimer 9, Neneman
9, Finch 13, Rochelle 3, Vrbicky 0, Woodard 2, Erickson 2, Campa 0,
bush 0, Ferguson 1, Walker 10, Janis 11, Hoffman 6, Hildebrand 3.
3-pt. goals -- Finch 3, Burns 1, Spanheimer 1, Walker 1, Janis 1.
Fouled out -- none.
Technicals -- none.
UCI -- Yadon 6, Callaway 9, Faulkner 11, Gabbe 10, Green 5,
Biggins 0, Sturgeon 1, Ferguson 6, Usher 9.
3-pt. goals -- Faulkner 1, Gabbe 1.
Fouled out -- none.
Technicals -- none.
Halftime -- Creighton, 44-26.
Pirates put away Chaffey, 61-33
COSTA MESA -- Fifth-ranked Orange Coast College scored the first
10 points of the game and cruised to a 61-33 victory over Chaffey
Friday night in the opening round of the 2002 Coast Christmas Classic
on the Pirates’ campus.
Liz Mendoza and Alisa Carrillo each scored a pair of baskets in
the 10-point run. Though the offense cooled down considerably after
that point, the Pirates held the Panthers to a chilly 5-for-23 clip
(21.7%) in the first half and a season-low 10 points.
Chaffey pulled to within 11 points at one point in the second
half, but that was as close as it would get.
Mendoza (13), Carrillo 11), Lauren Murray (10), Nancy Hatsushi (9)
and Leigh Marshall (7) made it a very balanced effort.
The Pirates (10-3) meet Southwestern tonight at 7:30 in the
semifinals.
Coast Christmas Classic
First Round
OCC 61, Chaffey 33
Chaffey -- Banks 1, Caldwell 8, Davis 0, Mendez 0, LeDay
0, Brooks 2, Wardlow 2, Powell 4, Joyner 10, Vega 4, Campbell 2.
3-pt. goals -- none.
Fouled out -- none.
Technicals -- none.
OCC -- Murray 10, Mendoza 13, Carrillo 11, Hatsushi 9, Galasso 3,
Marshall 7, Haueter 0, Garnica 0, Shaw 2, Von Tungeln 6.
3-pt. goals -- Hatsushi 2, Mendoza 1, Galasso 1, Marshall 1.
Fouled out -- none.
Technicals -- none.
Halftime -- OCC, 25-10.
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