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CtM WOMBW ZOUNMP Rookie of the year Sonia Moorman, late of Providence High School in Char lotte. is back to try to lead the Hagles from the depths. It'll be tough but Central does have four starter back- Moorman (12 points, 8 rebounds) and Monica Stewart. Shayne White and Sharon Mapning. ? LIVINGSTONE <1-21 . 2-I7L Pre diction: SEVENTH ' Four players who saw heavy minutes are back for coach Cassandra Howell, but Livingstone must find ways to score. Liv ingstone average 59 points per game, third-lowest in the league. Livingstone gave up 75 points per game - second highest in the CIAA. NORTHERN DIVISION ? NORFOLK STATE (2V-*. /?-/). Prediction: FIRST The Spartans were NCAA Regional champs and finished the season ranked No. 10 in the national Division II poll. Yes, coach James Sweat lost four starters, but he's got 5-2 junior guard Lisa Rice back and Rice averaged more assists (10.2) than points (9.K). That means she gets the hall to her teammates where they ean seore. Sweat has always been a great reeruiter. Just put the two ami the two together. Aiul get a gotx.1 lt>ok at Roland IX'nt. A newcomer who could become an all-star. Norfolk is quite ready to w in this league again. Make 110 mistake about it. "You gotta play with the hand you're.dealt and the ginxl Lord dealt me a paMty gixnl one." Sjweat said, hinting at what's to come. "' We've got seven girls about V 1 1 who ean run the tlinir and there's not that many Lisa Rice's out there. We'll exploit her talents." The Spartans will also exploit the league. Again. ? HAMPTON (20 Q. /(>-*). Predic tion: SKCONI) Coach Tiny Luster's team has four starters back, including 5-11 senior lor ward Wendy Goodwin. Goodwin averaged 16.8 points ami M.2 rebounds aiul is CI A A player of the year candidate along with Norfolk's Lisa Rice and Smith's Shani Baraka. Hampton has it all, too. Iliey ve got Goodwin and much more height to go with her in players like 6-0 sophomore for ward Shani Bauldriek and 6-1 senior Angie Faulk. This is a potential power house. Ni>rt\>lk State hail better he looking over their shoulders. "We've got eight freshmen ami sophomores." I. aster said. "And we've* got a large team, hut I'm not so sure how last." We'll find out soon. ? VA. UNION /V-5K IVcdic t ion: THIKI> Union won the national championship in the mid '80s ami coach Moses (iolall believes that his current team is making the right striilcs to gel back to tluit kind of success. Iltrce sl;Mlcrs are back, anil Amy Washington, a 0-2 senior center, is the biggest of the. Washington averaged I.V4 points anil 1 1.2 rebounds. Hut she's not all that's tall in Richmond. l.alVlra Camp. Kim Cole man and Sonya Wren area all over the 0 fool mark. That's a big team. ? VA. STATE (17-11. II X). Predic tion: l?)UR Ml This should be a fun team to watch this year. Coach Hcrlha Cummings has three starters back ? Jackie Carter, Keudra White and Kalhy Davis ? and a bunch of talented newcomers. "We want to run, gun and gel the ji?b done." Cummings said. ? BOWIE STATE ?> 17. OK). Pre diction: FIFTH Coach Jul Davis s;ikl Ik* learned a U >1 of things in his firsi \ o:ii at Bowie last year. This year, he's returning just one starter. Shauntc Matthews. Though Matthews is good. having averaged \2 points ami (> rebounds. Davis has a lot ol work to ilo. "As I hear the eoaehes talk. I hear they have a lost ol young teams and play ers."' Davis said. "So ho|vlully everything w ill halanee itself our." ? ELIZABETH CITY STATE i.\ It. h 1.0. Prediction: SIXTH Seeoiul hest eoaeh Wanda Crump summed things up best: " I have a lot ol key losses. We're very young." ('rump lost all live ol her starters from last year, hut has some |vople play mg this year who've lx*cn in seltool and talented Init not on the court. I hat may lielp some, hut anyone's first year in tlus league is tough.. ? ST. PAUL'S (V /<>. < 10). Prcdic iHNt; SKVKN1H Rosalind Stevenson is a hidden trea sure. The 5-6 junior guard averaged 16 jNihits and three rebounds |x*r game. But site needs Itelp. St. Paul's shot just .U'JI as a team last year ami gave up 75 points per game These are not good numbers. l;or St. Paul's to shock anyone this year, those RicE, BaraIia: LirrU PUyERS Dominate Biq There are differences, hut there arc so many similarities. Ljsa Rice is a sophomore. Shani Baraka is a senior. Baraka's father, Amiri Baraka, is a somewhat famous poet, and Baraka came from Newark, N.J., to play for Johnson C. Smith. Rice comes from a place called Gloucester, Va. Go to a map. It really is there. They say that the best players nowadays in women's basketball arc the big people. They score. They rebound. They control the game.? But Rice and Baraka will make you forget about all that. Both are 5-2 point guards and both cohtrol every game they play. Heading into the season, they are BCSR's pick for co-players of the year. They may not score the most points or grab the most boards, but without them, their teams' who by the way are picked to win the Southern and Northern Divisions- are going nowhere fast. "There just aren't that many Lisa Rice's out there," said Norfolk coach James Sweat. There aren't that many Shani Bara ka's cither. Rice average 9.8 points, 3.4 jebounds and 10.2 assists per game last year, leading her team to a 29-3 record and an NCAA Regional Championship. Baraka? All she did was average 13.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1 1 assists. By the end of the season, she was easily Smith's best player and the class of her Southern Division. Both of these players mix speed ami intelligence. "Shani 's like a coach on the floor," Smith coach Hythia Evans said. "She's without a doubt the best point guard in the conference." coach James Sweat and Rice may argue with that, but if there's any difference between the two, it's minimal. TOURNAMENT MOVING: This year, the CIAA Tournament is moving from Richmond, Va., to Win ston-Salem. * It's the first time the tournament has been played in North Carolina since 1975. Senior point guard Shani Baraka of Johnson C. Smith, along with Norfolk's Lisa Rice, were runaway choices for the C1AA Women's Co-Players of the Year.
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