Women's Basketball Starts Home Schedule Monday vs. Southern Virginia
11/19/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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Coastal Women’s Hoops Start Home Schedule Monday vs. Southern Virgina
The Coastal Carolina University women’s basketball team (1-0) will play its first home game of the 2006-07 season Monday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. against Southern Virginia University (0-4). Coastal is coming off an impressive 70-56 win at College of Charleston Nov. 16. The game can be heard on www.GoCCUSports.com with Joe Cashion on the call.
Scouting Southern Virginia
Southern Virginia is coming off a 62-55 loss to the Apprentice School Nov. 18. Lynette Adams led the Lady Knights with 17 points, while Kendra Romito had a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. On the year, Adams is averaging 14.5 points per game and Romito has 8.5 boards a contest.
Southern Virginia is coached by Mike Harmon, who is in his eighth season in Buena Vista. He has an 89-99 overall and school record as a head coach.
Series vs. Southern Virginia
Coastal has won both games in the all-time series, winning 119-66 in 2002-03 and winning 88-45 last year. In last year’s game, senior Calisha Yates (Columbus, Ind./East (Chattanooga State C.C.)) had a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while classmate Alisha Dill (Johnson City, Tenn./Science Hill) had 11 points and seven assists.
Coastal Improves in Season Openers with Win over CofC
Coastal Carolina improved to 8-2 in season openers under head coach Alan LeForce with its 70-56 win over the College of Charleston Nov. 16. Coastal shot 51 percent from the field in winning its second straight opener on the road.
Dill Picks Up Where She Left Off
Senior Alisha Dill (Johnson City, Tenn./Science Hill) scored 26 points, one off a career high, in the 70-56 win over the College of Charleston Nov. 16. Dill was 8-of-19 from the field and 8-of-9 from the free-throw line. Her career high is 27 points at UNC Asheville on Feb. 18, 2006.
New Kids on the Block
Coastal played four newcomers in the win over the Cougars and they combined for 21 points and eight rebounds. Junior Victoria Blanchard (Eutawville, S.C./Walters State C.C.) made her first career start and had seven points and two assists. Freshman Amanda Stull (Rushville, Ind./Rushville Consolidated) was a perfect 4-for-4 from the field for eight points while adding two assists. Freshman Lacey Lyons (Beverly Hills, Fla./Crystal River) hit two big three-pointers for six points, while freshman Devin Rivers (Miami, Fla./Felix Varela) had five rebounds and three assists.
Chanticleers Picked Fourth in the Big South
The Coastal Carolina University women’s basketball team has been picked to finish fourth in the Big South Conference’s annual preseason poll, as voted on by the League’s Head Coaches, Sports Information Directors and media panel. The announcement was made Oct. 10 in Charlotte, N.C., as part of the 2006-07 Tip-Off Media Luncheon.
Coastal received 117 points in the preseason poll. Liberty was picked to finish first for the 10th year in a row, as the Lady Flames garnered 21 first-place votes and finisihing with 202 points. The Lady Flames were followed by High Point (178 points, four first-place votes), Winthrop (136 points), Coastal, Radford (115 points, one first-place vote), UNC Asheville (100 points), Birmingham-Southern and Charleston Southern (44 points apiece).
Dill Returns for Senior Season
Senior Alisha Dill (Johnson City, Tenn./Science Hill) returns for her fourth season in a Lady Chanticleer uniform after earning All-Big South Second Team honors in 2005-06. Dill averaged 11.3 points, which was second on the team, and 4.2 rebounds last season. She had a career high 27 points at UNC Asheville Feb. 18 and scored in double figures in 14 games, including three 20-plus point performances.
Head Coach Alan LeForce
Coastal head coach Alan LeForce (Cumberland (Ky.) ’57) is starting his 10th season as the Lady Chanticleers’ mentor. He has a 126-127 record at CCU and a 366-307 overall record in 24 seasons as a head coach. LeForce is the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach in CCU history and is the only coach to win 100 games in both Division I men’s and women’s basketball.
New Faces for the Chants
Coastal Carolina has eight players on its roster that will play their first Division I season. Five of the eight newcomers are true freshmen, as Lauren Grochowski (Naperville, Ill./Central), Lacey Lyons (Beverly Hills, Fla./Crystal River), Devin Rivers (Miami, Fla./Felix Varela), Amanda Stull (Rushville, Ind./Rushville Consolidated) and Lori Whitaker (Bloomington, Ind./North) are just out of high school. Elizabeth Weaver (Unicoi, Tenn./Unicoi County) redshirted her first season at CCU, while Victoria Blanchard (Holly Hill, S.C./Holly Hill-Roberts) transferred from Walters State Community College. Heather Hummel (Franklin, Pa./Rocky Grove) transferred from Slippery Rock and will have one season of eligibility remaining.
CCU Signs Four Student-Athletes to National Letters-of-Intent
The Coastal Carolina University women’s basketball program has signed four student-athletes to National Letters-of-Intent, head coach Alan LeForce announced Nov. 9.
"We feel like we’ve added another strong class," LeForce said. "We think this group is every bit as good as the recruiting class last year. We’ve had two straight strong recruiting classes and that’s the way you build a program. We feel very good about it. We’ll still be young as we’ll have 10 freshmen and sophomores for next season, but they are good players."
The following is a list of the student-athletes coming to Coastal Carolina in 2007-08.
Name Pos. Ht. Hometown
Courtney Grambley F 6-1 Morrow, Ohio
Kate Jasinski G 5-6 Birmingham, Ala.
Jessica Noll F 6-0 Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Katie White C 6-3 St. Charles, Ill.
Blanchard Makes Immediate Impression
Junior Victoria Blanchard (Holly Hill, S.C./Holly Hill-Roberts) opened her career at Coastal by scoring 12 points and adding nine rebounds in the 57-51 exhibition win over Belmont Abbey Nov. 11. Blanchard was 4-for-8 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line. Out of her nine rebounds, four came on the offensive side of the glass.
Laug Starts Redshirt Senior Campaign
Redshirt senior Vanessa Laug (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills) started her fifth season Thursday night against the College of Charleston. Laug redshirted during the 2002-03 campaign with a knee injury after playing four games for the Lady Chants. Laug has 170 points and 166 rebounds in her Coastal career.
All CCU Games to be Broadcast on the Internet
The Coastal Carolina University women’s basketball team will have every regular-season and post-season game broadcast on the internet during the 2006-07 season, the first time in school history that every minute of CCU women’s basketball will be on the air. Beginning with the season opener Nov. 16 against the College of Charleston, all 28 games will be available on www.GoCCUSports.com. The broadcast will start 10 minutes prior to tipoff.
In addition, every post-season game, beginning with the 2007 Advance Auto Parts Big South Tournament March 8 in Asheville, N.C., will be broadcast on both www.GoCCUSports.com and THE TEAM 93.9 FM in Myrtle Beach.
Big South to Video Stream All Women’s Basketball Conference Games
For the first time in League history, the Big South Conference will video stream live its women’s basketball home Conference games free on the its premium content website, The Big South EDGE presented by Aéropostale, it was announced by Big South Commissioner Kyle B. Kallander. All Conference games involving Big South members will be available exclusively online beginning with the 2006-07 season, and the webcasts will utilize a one-to-three camera production with home audio, when available.
The video stream of women’s basketball games and all Big South events, which will also be available on a video-on-demand basis for subscribers of The EDGE, requires a high-speed internet connection (DSL, cable or above), Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0 or greater downloaded and installed, and a screen resolution of 800x600 or greater, among other requirements. An annual subscription of The EDGE costs $69.95 and runs one year from the date of sign-up and includes live sporting events and championships, interviews and exclusive access to on-demand video and features.
Coastal’s first game on the EDGE will be Jan. 13 against Liberty in Kimbel Arena at 2 p.m.
Up Next
Coastal will compete in the Ball State Federal Credit Union Thanksgiving Tournament Nov. 25-26 in Muncie, Ind. Coastal faces IPFW at 3 p.m., on Saturday and either Ball State or Howard Sunday at either 1 or 3 p.m.
