Women's Hoops: Beavers dominate in season opener
The Daily Barometer
Issue date: 11/13/06 Section: Sports
Senior guard Casey Nash scored 20 points - matching her career high - to lead the Oregon State women's basketball team to a 60-38 victory over Southern Utah in Saturday's season opener at Gill Coliseum.
Nash, whose previous high of 20 points came in 2003 against Oregon, buried 9-of-14 field goals Saturday afternoon and scored 10 straight points for the Beavers (1-0) in the middle of the second half. Nash also had six rebounds in the win.
OSU won its season opener for the ninth straight year as all nine players on the roster saw action and eight put points on the board.
Southern Utah (0-1) took an early 6-2 lead, but Beaver freshman guard Jasmine Smith came off the bench to spark the OSU offense and catapult an 11-0 run. Nash buried a jumper with 9:05 on the clock to make the score 19-8 and the Beavers never looked back.
"Defense is a commitment so we knew that was one of the things we had to do coming in to tonight's game," said Oregon State head coach LaVonda Wagner. "We had to commit to playing team defense and sacrificing to get some easy possessions back."
Smith finished with 10 points in the contest and fellow freshman Judie Lomax registered a double-double with 11 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Lomax becomes just the third freshman in Oregon State history to record a double-double in her first career game, and the most recent since Kari Parriott scored 16 points and hauled in 10 rebounds against Portland on Nov. 28, 1987. It is the third straight game Lomax has pulled in double-digit boards, grabbing 22 and 17 in OSU's two exhibition games earlier last week.
Erin McClean led Southern Utah with 10 points.
Oregon State held a 39-26 rebounding edge and turned the ball over just 10 times on the afternoon.
OSU hits the road for a Tuesday match-up against Cal Poly, with tip-off scheduled at 7 p.m.
Nash, whose previous high of 20 points came in 2003 against Oregon, buried 9-of-14 field goals Saturday afternoon and scored 10 straight points for the Beavers (1-0) in the middle of the second half. Nash also had six rebounds in the win.
OSU won its season opener for the ninth straight year as all nine players on the roster saw action and eight put points on the board.
Southern Utah (0-1) took an early 6-2 lead, but Beaver freshman guard Jasmine Smith came off the bench to spark the OSU offense and catapult an 11-0 run. Nash buried a jumper with 9:05 on the clock to make the score 19-8 and the Beavers never looked back.
"Defense is a commitment so we knew that was one of the things we had to do coming in to tonight's game," said Oregon State head coach LaVonda Wagner. "We had to commit to playing team defense and sacrificing to get some easy possessions back."
Smith finished with 10 points in the contest and fellow freshman Judie Lomax registered a double-double with 11 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Lomax becomes just the third freshman in Oregon State history to record a double-double in her first career game, and the most recent since Kari Parriott scored 16 points and hauled in 10 rebounds against Portland on Nov. 28, 1987. It is the third straight game Lomax has pulled in double-digit boards, grabbing 22 and 17 in OSU's two exhibition games earlier last week.
Erin McClean led Southern Utah with 10 points.
Oregon State held a 39-26 rebounding edge and turned the ball over just 10 times on the afternoon.
OSU hits the road for a Tuesday match-up against Cal Poly, with tip-off scheduled at 7 p.m.
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