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Home finally on the horizon for men's basketball team following Tuesday's game at Stanislaus
Roderick Hawkins, who leads the Wildcats in rebounding, faces a stern test in the Warriors' formidable front court.
1/18/2010 4:38:40 PM
TURLOCK – Having spent more time in a van then the gang from Scooby Doo over the last two weeks, Chico State’s men’s basketball players will undoubtedly stretch, breathe a breath of fresh air, and give thanks when they pull into town in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. They will have just finished playing their fifth road game in 13 days at Cal State Stanislaus. They’ll undoubtedly have van sleep hairstyles. The expressions they wear will likely depend on whether they come home with a victory.
Tipoff for Tuesday night’s game in Turlock is scheduled for 7:30 PM.
The Wildcats entered last weekend on a six-game road winning streak, but dropped games at Humboldt State Thursday and Sonoma State Saturday to fall to 9-4 overall and 5-3 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Cal State Stanislaus enters Tuesday’s action 7-6 overall and 3-5 in the CCAA.
The Wildcats have a chance to finish the road trip a 3-2, a record they would surely have been satisfied with before the trek began. Standing in their way is a Warriors team that boasts a 3-1 record at home. The Warriors’ strength lies in the painted area where they lead the CCAA in blocked shots and rank second in rebounding.
The Wildcats will match up with the likes of 6-foot-11 center Frank Monge (6.5 rebounds per game and 13 blocked shots), 6-foot-7 forward Matt Ibewiro (4.0 rebounds per game and nine blocked shots) and 6-foot-3 forward Jordan Stokes (6.2 rebounds per game and 11 blocked shots) with four strong post players of their own. Terence Pellum is averaging 12.7 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.1 blocked shot per game. The undersized Roderick Hawkins leads the Wildcats in rebounding at 6.5 per game and is averaging 10.2 points per game. Six-foot-8 senior Brian Seals has had his best two games coming off the bench for the Wildcats during their current road string. And 7-foot freshman Jason Conrad has been effective as well.
With a win Tuesday, the Wildcats would move into a tie for third-place with Cal State L.A. and only a half game behind second-place Humboldt State. Beginning with games against Cal State L.A. and Cal State Dominguez Hills this Friday and Saturday, respectively, the Wildcats will play nine of their final 13 regular season games at home, including nine of their next 11. Chico State, Cal State L.A. (6-3) and Dominguez Hills (5-4) are all part of a six-team bunch between third and sixth place separated by one game.
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Wildcats of the Week
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Men's Golf
Sylvester Gama carded three consecutive sub-par rounds and finished alone in second place at 7-under par at the Coyote Classic last Monday and Tuesday. Gama, competing as an individual, finished six strokes clear of third place in a standout performance that was bettered only by Cal State San Bernardino's Gene Webster, Jr.
Gama went 2-under in the opening round on the par-70 course at Arrowhead Country Club. He went 1-under in the afternoon. And on Tuesday, Gama's 66 was bettered only by Webster and matched his teammate Kyle Souza for the third lowest round of the tournament.
A 6-foot senior from Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CC), Gama has now gone under par in eight of his 16 rounds of the 2009-10 season. His stroke average of 72.1 is second on the Wildcats as are his three top-five finishes.
Those efforts have made him easily the team's most improved player thus far this season. His stroke average was 75.3 last season and he had just one top-10 finish - an eighth-place finish at the CCAA Championships.
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Women's Track
There’s something about the annual Chico Multi that always brings out the best in heptathlete Kelly Clancey. For the second straight year, the junior from Modesto earned an NCAA Championships provisional bid in the heptathlon during the two-day Chico Multi, collecting 4,743 total points over the seven events, easily surpassing the 4,400 points needed to secure the provisional bid.
Clancey was the dominant athlete in the 12-person field, taking first place in four of the seven hepthatlon events. She took top honors in the high jump (5 feet, 3.25 inches), long jump (17 feet, 9.5 inches), 100-meter hurdles (15.42 seconds) and the 800-meter run (2 minutes, 20.25 second), while finishing second in the 200-meter dash (26.34 seconds), fourth in the shot put and sixth in the javelin throw.
Clancey, already well ahead of last season's schedule in which she scored a 4,400 in the Chico Multi and went on to post a career-best 4,811 at the CCAA Championships and advance to the NCAA Championships, will try to better her provisional mark March 24-25 at the California Multi, hosted by UC Berkeley.
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3.5.10 | Men's Basketball
ARCATA – The Chico State men’s basketball team has climbed from the deepest valley of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) to its upper echelon in just two seasons under Head Coach Greg Clink. The Wildcats’ quest to reach the conference’s highest peak will have to wait at least one more season. A remarkable comeback came up just short as the reigning king of the conference mountain, Cal Poly Pomona, defeated the Wildcats 80-77 in the CCAA Championship Tournament semifinals Friday night at Humboldt State’s Lumberjack Arena.
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3.4.10 | Men's Basketball
ARCATA - It's time to see if the slipper fits on the Chico State men's basketball team. Already one upset victory into the 2010 postseason, the Wildcats will attempt to knock off top-seeded Cal Poly Pomona in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Championship Tournament semifinals Friday at 5:30 and officially earn the title of Cinderella.
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3.3.10 | Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
The Chico State men’s and women’s basketball teams will compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament semifinals on Friday, March 5 at Lumberjack Arena in Arcata. Both teams will take on Cal Poly Pomona, and tip-off is set for 12:30 p.m. for the women and 5:30 p.m. for the men. The finals will take place on Saturday. The winners of the CCAA Championship Tournament earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Championship Tournament. CLICK HERE TO GO TO WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT CENTRAL. CLICK HERE TO GO TO MEN'S TOURNAMENT CENTRAL.
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3.2.10 | Men's Basketball
CARSON – Age has rendered the piece of paper the color of a smoker’s teeth. Tiny rips and crevices ring the edges. It’s a history of the 1994-95 Chico State men’s basketball campaign and the line second from the bottom reads: Chico State 86, UC Davis 79 – March 3, 1995. For 14 years, 11 months and 30 days that line signified the last postseason victory for the Chico State men’s basketball team. But today is a new day.
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3.2.10 | Men's Basketball
WALNUT CREEK – The coaches of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) voted Jon Baird the conference’s Newcomer of the Year and to thee Second Team All-Conference team at the conclusion of the 2006-07 men’s basketball regular season. He was a junior then, right out of Shasta College. A hot-shot shooter with outstanding numbers, even more so than this season’s in fact. But his team was not winning (the Wildcats finished that season 7-20) and he now admits that he didn’t display the type of leadership the program needed from its leading scorer.
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3.1.10 | Men's Basketball
CARSON – The story of the 2009-10 Chico State men’s basketball team has been one of overcoming obstacles. The Wildcats overcame the stigma of four straight losing seasons with a California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA)-best seven-game improvement over last season under second year Head Coach Greg Clink. Guard Jon Baird is the team’s leading scorer despite spending two years away from the game before this, his senior season. In the face of taller opposition week in and week out, 6-foot-2 junior forward Roderick Hawkins has been arguably the team’s most valuable player while ranking third in the CCAA in rebounding. And many of the team’s six freshmen have made Clink proud when pressed into duty with the game on the line.
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3.1.10 | Men's Basketball
WALNUT CREEK – Chico State forward Roderick Hawkins was named the California Collegiate Athletic Association’s (CCAA) men's basketball Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 22-28, it was announced on Monday.
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