whittier college women's basketball lose to tigers of occidental Adrianna Game

The Whittier women’s basketball team (7-16) battled the Occidental Tigers (19-3) in which they were defeated by only 4 points in the last couple minutes of the game resulting in their second loss to the Tigers this season. The loss drops the Poets to 4-8 in SCIAC.
Although the Tigers dominated the court in the early moments of the game on Saturday, Feb. 11, the Poets tied the game twice around the five-minute mark from two consecutive jumpers from first-year guard Dannika Navales-Lugtu on back-to-back Poet possessions. The points gained their first lead of the night when senior forward Tanisha White sunk a 3 from downtown. With 50 seconds left on the clock, junior forward Alex Coon hit a jumper and increased the lead to 29-24 at halftime.

- Thu, 2012-02-16 02:06