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C1AA women trying to avoid Bulldogs' bite fc 1e**y y k*s Coatt Ld Dav. s of Bo* it Start* keeps proving UbJ W? |vvd v-ovati ie tiit. become Dai is lean. capiat ec trie C1AA s taster? Divi sion championship aga:ij and comes into the CI AX* Tournament as the favorite to win its, third consecutive title In each of the past two "seasons Davis" team has entered the season w ithout its leading scorer from the previous year. But some how the Lady Bulldogs seem to find a way to make it back to the top of the heap. This season the Lady t Bulldogs have relied upon 6-5 tenter Rasbida Brooks as their tower of strength Brooks has come through lor the team with the best s-uius-ues o# ber career. She Lushed among the league i top performers n scoring. fjeic goal percent age. retoiiwhng and bAut*e>d wr/is Those sta lithcs bcipec Brooks land the ClAA's Women"s play - er of dBe Year. The Lady Bulldog* finished their season with a 10-0 slate 10 the divi sion. 15-1 in the confer ence and 22-3 overall. Beverly Winslead was a sparkplug inside for the Bulldogs and joined Btookv on the All-CIAA Team. North Carolina Central could be the team that gives the Bulldogs the most trouble. However, the earliest the two could pos sibly meet is the champi onship game since the bagjev captured the West ero Division cfaampi onsfaip Coach J oh Robin son. who was named the women's Coach of the Year, ted the Lad> Eagles to one of their best-ever seasons. That coincided with the arrival of Amba KoogoLa. a 6-2 pivot play er from Zaire. KongoLa ted the conference in scoring after joining the team for the second semester. Cen tral came on strong down . the stretch run of the sea son to hold off Living stone for the divisional championship. The Eagles have been tough to beat with Kongola. whose size and athleticism could pose a problem for Bowie State. In a year of surprises in women's play. Elizabeth City's women team fin ished second in the East ern Division. The Lady viKings leader was diminutive point guard Raquita Washington, who was named to the All C1AA Team. Virginia Union made SsrOAA Woman, ? pog* 15 Kashida Ifoofa _ * ? - Seemed like old times for VUU in tournament full of upsets x \ .' Whoever wrote.-the script for the 53rd running of the ClAA Tournament couldn't, have known that it would make for one of-> the moM exciting in recent history When fans of the school's teams got togeth er, for the 1998 tourna /? c'f ment. there was definitely something for everyone. As usual the week long. African-American celebration featured its usual menu of pageantry. There were parties, all types of social events, class reunions, alumni meetings, fashion shows and step shows. But basketball was the entree' and the fans, who flocked to Lawrence Joel | Veterans Coliseum for this annual extravaganza, were treated to a feast. The basketball played by the league's 12 women's and men's teams was outstanding, as usual. Only this time there was an added bit of excitement in the air. The tournament featured more upsets than any tournament in a decade However, when the dust finally settled, it was Virginia Union which again had re-established itself as the league's top men's basketball program. With senior Marquise Newbie leading the way, the Panthers won their 14th tournament champi onship and gave Coach Dave Robbins his 10th title. VUU bounced back from one of the most dis appointing seasons in the last two decades, during its previous season, to put itself back at the top of the league's totem pole. The Panthers, 14-15 in 1996-97, were the lone team among the favorites to advance past the second round. VUU, which cap tured the Eastern Division regular season champi onship and received a first-round bye, made short work of Virginia State and Livingstone to advance to the champi onship game. But they saved their best for last. In the title game, the Panthers execut ed their game plan to per fection on both the offen sive and defensive ends to capture a 94-65 victory over Johnson C. Smith in front of 11,434 fans. "I was elated with the way we played." Robbins said. "The margin of vic tory was as large as any game we've played in the tournament. J.C. Smith is an outstanding and for us to win by that many points means we must have really played well." The Panthers made amends for one of the losses on their record dur ing the regular season. Srr Man's Bwap, ?? 14
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