| Show 1996 Women's Basketball Team earn Hosts Tournament By Corey Corcy Bullock Sports Editor The long awaited opening of the Lifetime Activities Center at the Redwood Campus came to pass on Friday night when the Women's Basketball Team hosted their annual invitational tournament The theme of the inaugural games was free throws As hit a meager meager meager mea mea- ger 38 percent of their free throws in inthe inthe inthe the closing four minutes of each ball game therefore losing them both hosted Utah Valley State College Snow College and Casper College in a mini preseason ment The first game ever played at atthe atthe atthe the LAC Building featured Snow College against Snow College captured the victory 62 to 54 out shooting the Wolverines at atthe atthe atthe the free throw line down the stretch In the second game of the night matched up against Casper College The game was a virtual defensive stalemate in the first six minutes as no one was able to score Finally at the 1413 mark in the first half Caspers Casper's Rachelle Lang hit a pair of free throws for the first score After the Lady Bruins rocky start they preceded to take a one point lead v. v w a k 3 f E J ru r i 4 IW s r Natalie Prescott scores two points as a cast of Casper players look on during Tournament action at half 18 10 17 The second half was a see-saw see battle until down the stretch when the Lady Bruins only hit 5 of 14 free throws while the Thunderbirds hit 9 of 10 Casper won 62 to 49 The Thunderbirds Thunderbird's Dianne L' L LAmi Ami and Rachelle Lang accounted for 51 of the 62 points Monica Starrett head coach said b 0 r A E n t tF R F k r x A Tracye Hayden of shots for two over Gaspers Caspers 63 Keen Keenan an It all came down to the fact that we had 30 turnovers shot 29 from the field and 40 from the f free ee throw line On Saturday night the Lady Bruins came out on fire and jumping out to a 13 to 2 lead mid way threw the first half Snow College came charging back but the Lady Bruins c 1 t tr tro o a o f t w irr o tl ea d a of t h a if to ung 5 v a nv porn I U I JV v o 28 In the second half built a anine anine anine nine point lead behind the play of Freshman point guard Tracey Hayden and then saw it vanish as quick as it came With left in the half the Badgers Badger's Julie Peterson gave Snow a 53 to 5 51 I lead that they would never relinquish Snow went wenton on to win the game 70 to 63 The bright spot for the Lady Bruins was the play of Shelly Karren who was named to the tournaments Tournament All-Tournament Team Other members members members mem mem- bers of the Ml Tournament All Team were Wendy Person and Holly Bradley from Snow Koko Holdcraft and Tara Ferrin from and the of the tournament was Dianne L' L LAmi Ami from Casper |
