WBB: American Southwest Conference

imad3fanatic · February 10, 2006, 09:34:55 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on February 09, 2006, 11:29:07 PM
calhsu, I was trying to be diplomatic about UMHB. UMHB's Lisa Martinez was voted the ASC-West Pre-Season POTY, but she left the team before the season began. I don't know why. It doesn't matter now. That would be a different UMHB Lady Cru.

Ralph - The diplomacy is appreciated, but there is more to the story on UMHB. New coach hired at the beginning of school year. 6'2" Post lost to injury before season starts. Pre-season POTY leaves team. Team starts 0-10, since then 7-5. The wins are against teams in the bottom of conference standings, but please a little love for a bunch of kids who have had to overcome a lot of adversity. Give the new coach a
year maybe two to recruit and establish her program and UMHB will be back. It has been a tough year for UMHB BB, the mens team lost their starting point guard. He was their playmaker and leading scorer. With him running the offense, the CRU put the only loss on the MC record.

dballa · February 10, 2006, 09:44:01 AM

It doesn't matter if it is HSU, McM, HPU or any other team in this division, everybody wants teams other than their own to lose. I couldn't care less if it was HSU or SRSU that we were playing Saturday that was 1 game ahead of us. It's not about who you play it's about what you're playing for. HPU had a goal to go into McM, play well and give themselves a chance to win. They did that. Now they have their focus set on Saturday's game and will prepare in the same way as they always do.

pirateonthebrazos · February 10, 2006, 10:43:11 AM

The early on Sarah is an ACL. What a great girl and ballplayer! She will be sorely missed! Sarah's absence will leave point guard duties to Rachel Cisneroz and Shanika Conaway. Rachel is very capable of running the offense and Shanika is the best and quickest defender on the team. I don't look for any fall off with either of these two on the floor.
Look for the Cowgirls to rally around Sarah's injury and play that much harder.

Go Cowgirls!!

calhsu · February 10, 2006, 11:24:44 AM

Pirate good report on how HSU will deal with the loss of a great player.

The remarks about the left coast are funny when RUSH says them but from the rest of you they just seem silly. Untill this site has a Texas, LA, Miss. residency requirement I will keep giving my two cents.
It takes me a couple of hours drive to see any college action. This year I did go see a young lady play that I coach when she was in our city league. She plays for another HSU, Humboldt State. DII

I certainly have reaction to the comment that the MCM point guard is the "best in the country." I don't want to say anything bad about her. I'm sure she is great, but that kind of statement is only true if she shows it against some of the best teams in the country. When HSU's Anderson won the Josten MVP she had three years of great games against some of the best teams in the country. She almost single handedly beat Trinity who won the national championship. Please don't take this as disrepect to her. But if you make a statement like that you have to have more than good stats and a winning record.

Ralph Turner · February 10, 2006, 01:02:08 PM

Kendra Anderson's Jostens was a great accolade to an outstanding player. Just being accepted as one of 12 Jostens nominees is an incredible honor, 12 players from 400+ D3 teams! Wow!

(She is a Colorado City, TX grad. I have a wonderful picture of my maternal grandmother coaching girls' 3-on-3 basketball in the cotton fields besides Longfellow School in Mitchell County, Texas, from 1922. Perhaps Kendra's great-grandmother is in that picture!)

As for Symbri, she is building her own legacy. She was one of five Deans' List players at McMurry in Fall 2005.

The ASC always has a goodly number of outstanding scholar-athletes in Women's Basketball!

Would it be fair to say that the HSU Women's Basketball team probably wins the Athletic Department "Academic Trophy"?

fanstand · February 10, 2006, 04:30:35 PM

If I say black, calhsu will say white........we will NEVER agree on anything........Where did Kendra Anderson come in this conversation anyway? She was a great player, not a point guard, why bring that up? I should have said, Symbri is the #1 assist leader in the D3 category, excuse me for not being more specific. That makes her a dang good point guard, she has helped McM get 20 wins, helped put them in the top 10 in their division, she is awesome in the class and on the court. My predictions have been pretty acurate all year, the top three teams, Schreiner's sucess, hpu slipping under the radar, so I missed last night by 1 stinking point. The officials were not at fault, I said we beat ourselves, they just weren't very consistent in their calls. So I want the McM lady indians to finish first, that means I want HSU to lose. Its not rocket science, it's supporting my team. And after that Trinity team beat your cowgirls, MY lady indians beat them when they were ranked #1, going back to the intangibles that I have talked about all year. I have not made excuses why we have lost two games, I blamed ourselves, no one else. So there. And the only thing left I can say to you is "May the good Lord bless and keep you"

fanstand · February 10, 2006, 05:01:41 PM

One more minor stat for Symbri.....Marissa Coop of LeTourneau and Symbri have both broken the assists record for most assists in the ASC, set by Diana Martinez of HSU during her fine career at 439. Marissa a senior has 499 and three games to play in her career, Symbri has 456 as a junior with at least 4 games and hopefully more than that left to play this year, and a whole other year to go!

d3fan4life · February 10, 2006, 05:22:33 PM

Diana had 439 assists, and she was the starting pg for only one season. thats pretty awesome!!!

calhsu · February 10, 2006, 05:29:36 PM

Yes the Lord does bless each and every day.
Kendra was brought up because she was said to be one of the best in the country. She proved it in nationally ranked games.
If your wonderful MCM player helps wins the ASC playoffs, and then they win some game in the big dance, I will say that I agree that she is one of the best in the country.

Get your history straight. The year McM beat Trinity was the year AFTER they were national champs. HSU beat them the year they were national champs. And that year the lost to Trinity was their only loss.

d3fan4life · February 10, 2006, 05:35:19 PM

here is the line for Sonya West the year they beat Trinity:

4 rebounds
4 assists
3 blocks
29 points
34 minutes
12-19 shooting

nice.

calhsu · February 10, 2006, 05:40:10 PM

Fanstand, Oh and since you mentioned the top ten ranking. Enjoy it for the week. You will not be there next week.

Now I know that was mean. Truth is the polls are just for fun. Great if you are there, but the real meaningful games start Saturday. .

fanstand · February 10, 2006, 06:04:34 PM

I know that. They were still ranked #1 when they beat them. You are a typical HSU fan, but my skin is thick so cheap shot all you want. At least we got to the top 10. We will see who wins and at the end of the year one of us will be eating crow. If its me put some BBQ sauce on it.

mcmfan · February 10, 2006, 08:29:08 PM

Since people are making predictions, here's another one: HSU will beat HPU tomorrow afternoon. As a McM fan, I'd prefer the opposite, but we played a lackluster game yesterday (the Abilene paper had it right in today's story: we didn't look like a team that had only one loss all season up to then). Despite our poor showing, we lost by only a point. HSU is peaking right now, so I figure what HPU managed to do to beat us isn't going to be enough to take out HSU.

matalk · February 10, 2006, 08:51:53 PM

Calhsu...This is all I have to say about you....get over yourself and HSU! You want to talk about the past, lets talk about last year when your team did when the West but they lost in the second round of the tournament to McM. Yes, they might be coming together but things can change in the span of one game. I hope that a whole lot of HPU students show up at the game tomorrow...and when they win they give good ole HSU the "Overrated" chant. Best of luck to everyone in the games tomorrow and may the best team win!

dballa · February 10, 2006, 08:56:07 PM

I think we'll have a good showing for the game. The only bad thing is the HPU baseball team has a couple home games against Trinity, so there will be some students going to those games.

It should be an exciting environment nonetheless.