Women's Water Polo - 2007 Game Highlights

October 26, 2007

Lady Wolverines finish league play with 2 wins

With the boosted confidence from the prior week’s victories, the Lady Wolverines went into the Sac City game on Wednesday with a fire to continue to win. The Lady Wolverines dominated from start to finish with the ending score being 17-7. Freshmen Rachel Holm and Whitney Bell, and Sophomore Mary Tess Taylor each scored 3 goals to give the Lady Wolverines the extra push to win the game.

On Thursday the Lady Wolverines played foe Merced College for a second time this season. Again the Lady Wolverines came out ahead with an impressive second quarter, leading 10-4 and a final score of 13-9. Freshmen Katie Black lead the Wolverines in goals with 3 on fire shots, while freshmen teammate Whitney Bell lead the team with 10 steals.

As the Lady Wolverines end their league play they continue to get ready for the Big 8 Conference on Friday, November 2 at Merced.

October 22, 2007

 

Lady Wolverines survive second tough week in a row

After their second straight week of 6 games in 4 days, the Lady Wolverines came out unscarred or bruised and a whole lot tougher as they won 4 out of 6 games. The week started out with a huge win over arch rival Diablo Valley (12-3) on Wednesday.

On Thursday the Lady Wolverines traveled to Fresno to battle the Bulldogs and suffered a tough and disappointing 10-8 defeat. From there the Lady Wolverines continued their journey to Southern California to compete in the State’s toughest tournament, the Battle at the Beach, in Long Beach. Playing some of their best water polo of the season, the Lady Wolverines captured 3 wins, 17-7 over Saddleback, 13-2 over Palomar, and 9-7 over conference foe Merced, in 4 games, suffering their only setback, a 12-10 overtime loss to Fullerton College.

The Lady Wolverines will be in action next week as they finish up conference play against Sac City on Wednesday and then Merced on Thursday.

October 7-14, 2007

Lady Wolverines on a four game winning streak

The Lady Wolverines faced tough competition this last week but pulled together to finish the week with a 4-2 overall record. Starting the week off the young Lady Wolverines played Santa Rosa to a close game before falling 9-7 and followed the next day with a big game against State ranked team Modesto. The Wolverines played tough but fell behind in the fourth quarter and lost 9-4. After the two conference games the Lady Wolverines came back with a fire to win all four of their games against Cypress (20-7), Ohlone (15-7), Cabrillo (16-4) and Mt. Sac (18-11) in the River City Tournament. The Lady Wolverines were lead by Freshmen Whitney Bell and Alyssa Woodliff, with help from Sophomore Simone Jackson, leading the Wolverines to the 4 victories in the River City Tournament. After an undefeated weekend the Lady Wolverines look forward to their next competition and home game against Diablo Valley College and then face Fresno City in Fresno before traveling down south to compete in the Long Beach City tournament Friday and Saturday.

Lady Wolverines step up their play

After a tough week of games it is evident that the young Lady Wolverines are playing tough and improving with every game they play. They had a tough loss against State ranked team American River (19-12). Then the Lady Wolverines headed down to the Cuesta tournament. To start the weekend the Wolverines had a close game against Cuesta College but lost (16-6). The Lady Wolverines followed the Cuesta game up by a big win against Orange Coast College (8-7). Continuing to play hard through the weekend the Lady Wolverines faced Long Beach (8-4), Golden West (12-6) and Mt. SAC (10-8). This was a hard weekend for the Young Wolverines but they have the determination to beat these teams next time they face them. Freshmen Katie Black scored 10 goals while Simone Jackson and Stephanie McDonough contributed 7 and 6 goals to lead the Lady Wolverines at the Cuesta tournament. The Lady Wolverines are looking forward to their first home game against Laney College at two on Friday October 5 and followed by another home game on October 10th against Santa Rosa.

Wolverines come out ahead after tough week

The Lady Wolverines survived and came out ahead after facing Delta, Foothill and West Valley last week. They gave Delta a tough fight, losing 11-8, but came back on Thursday to win against both Foothill 11-6, and West Valley 15-6. The Lady Wolverines were lead by Freshmen Katie Black, and Sophomore Stephanie McDonough.

The Lady Wolverines next game is a league game against rival American River on September 26.

Women’s Water Polo goes 2-2 in Cypress tournament

Sept 7 - 8, 2007

The young Lady Wolverines, with thirteen freshmen on this year’s roster, went 2-2 at their first very tough college tournament at Cypress. The Lady Wolverines had easy victories over Cypress College 21-6 and Miramar 17-7. And lost two tight games to State ranked teams, Golden West 11-7 and Orange Coast College 14-12.

Leading the way for the Lady Wolverines were freshmen goalie Brittany Adams with 23 saves, freshmen Katie Black with 9 goals and freshmen counterpart Rachel Holm with 7 goals, and sophomores Stephanie McDonough with 10 goals and Simone Jackson with 7 goals.