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**CbobbyB** · 02-17-2007, 11:20 PM

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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Jayne Appel is getting better as she gets more experience with No. 9 Stanford.

The freshman center had 18 points and 11 rebounds, Candice Wiggins scored 17 points and the Cardinal beat Oregon 74-56 Saturday.

Appel nearly recorded a triple-double, also finishing with seven assists. She was coming off a career-best 28-point, 17-rebound game against Oregon State.

"Jayne's a big force inside," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "We go inside to her and she can score against anybody."

Wiggins played but didn't start for only the second time in her career last Thursday against the Beavers due to a sprained right ankle. The junior guard showed no ill-effects of that injury against the Ducks (15-11, 7-9 Pac-10), going 7-for-13 from the field with three 3-pointers and eight rebounds.

Brooke Smith also recorded 10 points and nine rebounds for Stanford (23-4, 15-1), which has won four straight.

"Candice brings, and you can see this as soon as she comes out of the game, the presence that she has is phenomenal," VanDerveer said. "When she's out there, she brings such a calming effect to the team and just a confidence. And I think the great ones are the ones that make the other ones around them better and Candice certainly does that."

Oregon, which beat No. 22 California by 20 points on Thursday for its fifth win in six games, was led by Eleanor Haring, who had 19 points.

"We played a very good team today and I don't think we played our best," Oregon coach Bev Smith said. "And when those two things collide, it's going to be a disappointment."

Haring put the Ducks up 17-14 at the 8:14 mark with the only 3-pointer made by either team in the first half. But Oregon scored only four points the rest of the half on 2-of-11 shooting.

Stanford took advantage, going on a 13-2 run to build a 27-19 advantage. Jillian Harmon scored all seven of her first-half points during that stretch.

The Ducks scored the first four points of the second half to get within two at the 17:25 mark. But Stanford answered by scoring seven straight in less than a minute on a layup by Appel, a 3-pointer by Michelle Harrison, and a steal and layup by Wiggins to make it 34-25 with 16:12 to play.

"Anytime you can get some consecutive baskets, that kind of spurt gives you a lot of momentum and then everyone gets confident," Wiggins said.

http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/6482090

**knicksfan** · 02-18-2007, 10:19 AM

Mark my words, Epiphany Prince is the future of the WNBA. Imagine her and Abi Olajuwon on the same team, that would be a nightmare for anybody.

**CbobbyB** · 02-20-2007, 05:52 PM

--just a few from yesterday & Sunday--

Allyssa Dehaan- 25pts, 8reb, 5blk

Gaati Werema- 17pts, 15reb, 2blk

Twila Stokes- 13pts, 12reb

Christy Marshall- 12pts, 6reb

Ayla Brown- 7pts, 13reb, 4ast

Mickel Picco- 25pts, 8reb, 4stl

Monica Wright- 15pts, 11reb

4ever_bball_fan · 02-21-2007, 11:19 AM

Ya'll better check out Tina Charles from UConn last night...30+ points, ain't nutin' nice...

And, Abi Olajuwan will have to slim down a bit before she is even a difference maker on the Lady Sooners. I can't wait to see her in the regular rotation, but those heavy set gals make me nervous. I just keep remembering our Lady at Arizona...that was too sad.

**CbobbyB** · 02-22-2007, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 4ever_bball_fan

Ya'll better check out Tina Charles from UConn last night...30+ points, ain't nutin' nice...

And, Abi Olajuwan will have to slim down a bit before she is even a difference maker on the Lady Sooners. I can't wait to see her in the regular rotation, but those heavy set gals make me nervous. I just keep remembering our Lady at Arizona...that was too sad.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Tina Charles' teammates sensed the Connecticut freshman was poised to have a breakout performance against South Florida.

"She was really focused during warmups, and you can look in her eyes and tell when Tina is going to dominate on both ends of the court," Huskies forward Charde Houston said after Charles scored a UConn freshman-record 34 points to pace an 81-67 victory Tuesday night.

The 6-foot-4 center from the same New York high school that produced Sue Bird, Chamique Holdsclaw and Lamar Odom also grabbed 17 rebounds - two shy of her personal best - to break the Huskies' freshman season mark for total rebounds.

"We threw up shots and there were times when they didn't go in, and she cleaned up everything on the glass," said Houston, who also had a big night with 18 points and 10 rebounds to help UConn (25-2, 14-0) clinch its first outright Big East regular-season title in three years.

Charles, averaging just under 12 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, made 14 of 19 shots from the field and went 6-for-7 at the foul line. She had previously scored 20 points twice.

"As coaches, we want a game like this every night. And we don't care that she's a freshman, and we don't care that she doesn't know about anything," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said.

"We want a game like this every single night. And to have it on the road against a good team, where she had to really work at it, I thought it was pretty good."

USF (18-9, 8-6) lost for the fourth time in five games, letting UConn gradually pull away after keeping it close for a half before a crowd of 5,241 - a record for a South Florida women's home game.

Nalini Miller scored 18 points and Shantia Grace added 17 for the Bulls. Leading scorer Jessica Dickson was limited to two points in the second half and finished with 11 on 5-for-16 shooting.

"For our team and our program to take that next step, we've got to start winning some of these games," said USF coach Jose Fernandez, whose team may need to win its final two Big East games and then win again in the conference tournament to earn a spot in the NCAA tournament.

UConn trailed 22-20 before taking the lead for good with a quick 8-0 surge. It was 38-32 at the half, and the Huskies were never seriously threatened after Renee Montgomery and Kalana Green, who had 10 points and eight rebounds, scored to build the advantage to double digits.

UConn has won 98 of its last 105 regular-season games against Big East opponents and is 14-0 in conference play for the first time since 2002-03 and sixth time overall. The Huskies can run the table in the league by beating Villanova at home and Rutgers on the road in the next six days.

"We want to go undefeated," Montgomery said. "We've been saying that since the beginning, and I think now we've really put ourselves in good position to do it. ... That's our main goal right now."

yep

http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/6489668

**CbobbyB** · 03-07-2007, 08:53 PM

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Gaati Werema of Prairie View A&M University named SWAC freshman of the year.
15.5ppg, 10.2rpg, 1.28blk

*also named to All Conference 1st team

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Ta'Wuana Cook of North Carolina A&T named MEAC freshman of the year.
14.5ppg, 4.28ast
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Brittney Williams of Lamar University named as the Southland Conference freshman of the year.
14.4ppg, 7.9ppg

more coming soon

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