Complete Notes
ARCATA - After making the road part of the series, Humboldt State will look to even the season series against California Collegiate Athletic Association-leading Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday night and finish the 2013 part of the schedule strong.
The Lumberjacks and the Broncos will study last Saturday's film of their first game and prepare for another exciting game of 'Round II' between the CCAA travel partners.
Short December slate wraps up Saturday
• After three exhibition contests and a pair of two-game early season tournaments, HSU will complete its four-game December schedule on Saturday.
• The Jacks have their fourth of 22 CCAA games and fourth in a row by playing the Broncos for the second time after splitting contests on December 5 and 7 with UC San Diego and Cal State San Bernardino.
Jacks vs. Broncos I
• In one of the oldest clichés, it was a tale of two halves last Saturday night for HSU vs. Cal Poly Pomona 'Round I'
• 1st half -- The scoring started out slowly with only five points in the first six minutes of play with the Jacks missing its opening nine attempts from the field, before Elle Anderson hit a mid-range jumper 5:47 into the game.
Trailing 11-9, HSU's Jessica Johnson, who had a season-high five points off the bench, tied the game at 11. Johnson added a pair of free throws a minute later for the Jacks' first lead of the game, 15-13, at 7:42.
HSU hit its stride the final 12 minutes of the first half behind 10 points from Jae Shin. The visitors outscored Cal Poly Pomona 31-11 in the last just over seven minutes and 12-2 run to end the half for the 18-point intermission advantage, 42-24.
• 2nd half -- The Broncos busted out an early second stanza outburst to cut their deficit to five, 44-39, with the first six points and a 15-2 run in four minutes to set the tone.
The Jacks held the home team at arms length between five to nine points until hitting its dry spell down the stretch. A game-ending stretch where HSU failed to score in the final six-plus minutes to see Cal Poly Pomona net the final 12 points to escape with a 70-65 win.
• Cal Poly Pomona used a shooting prowess of 61.5-percent (16 of 26) and all seven of its three-pointers made in the second 20 minutes to spur the comeback charge. At the same time, the home squad held HSU (4-3/1-2 CCAA) to eight of 29 from the floor along with winning the battle on the boards, 47-40.
Jacks seek to prevent another sweep in Broncos series
• HSU will look to stop the trend of recent seasons of series sweeps against Cal Poly Pomona
• In the eighth-year of the series, the Jacks seek to prevent the sixth sweep.
• HSU broke a two-year and four-game losing streak to Cal Poly Pomona last year by taking both contests
Last meeting in Arcata (11/24/12)
• In a low-scoring affair, HSU pulled out a 48-45 win over CPP
• The Broncos' Lauren Goecke hit a three-pointer to take the lead 45-43 with 3:00 left, but it turned out to their final points ... The Jacks' Lisa Petty hit a layup at 1:47 to tie and added one of two free throws to go ahead with 27 seconds as the home team scored the final five points to win.
• Petty finished with 21 points and eight rebounds, while Elle Anderson and Kelly Kime added 11 and seven rebounds to the cause.
Coach Joddie Gleason on last Saturday's game
• "It was frustrating looking at film. We had good and good looks. We need to have a little more urgency when needing a basket."
HSU player highlights in 1st CPP game
• PG Kersey Wilcox led with 18 points and six assists
• Jae Shin hit for 17 points with 13 coming in the first half
• Elle Anderson and Kelly Kime both grabbed nine rebounds
• Jessica Johnson continued her better play with five points, two rebounds and an assist in seven minutes of play
HSU players among the CCAA leaders
•Kersey Wilcox -- 1st in scoring (18.7 ppg), 1st Free Throw% (93.9% -- 46 of 49), 2nd in assists (6.4 apg with 45) & 9th in 3FG% (36.8%)
•Jae Shin -- 3rd in 3FG% (49.4% -- 26 of 56) & 11th in scoring (14.0 ppg)
•Megan Shields -- 1st in blocks (2.6 bpg -- 18), 8th in rebounding (8.3 rpg) & 9th FG% (48.1%)
•Kelly Kime -- T8th FT% (80.0%)
•Elle Anderson -- 10th rebounding (7.1 rpg)
Coach Joddie Gleason on the Cal Poly Pomona rematch:
"We need to have more of a post presence to help Kersey (Wilcox) out. She was getting double teamed as Pomona was rotating when she drove. We also need to hit shot to alleviate the press more.
It is tough guarding Blackwell and will need to do a better overall job of it as well. They rebound so hard, but we did a decent job (on the boards). They did get way too many rebounds especially off missed foul shots that resulted in points.
We need to be patient to get good shots and discipline on getting these good shots and looks when going through any time when the shots are not falling.
Cal Poly Pomona:
• Sits atop the CCAA standings with San Francisco State with a perfect 3-0 mark in league play.
• Own the longest current winning streak of the CCAA at five games
• Have not lost since the second game of the year to Simon Fraser, 73-64, in the second of a two-day, two-game series in Pomona.
• Received 49 votes in the latest NCAA Division II USA Today Coaches Poll -- 2nd most of any CCAA behind only 15th-ranked Chico State
• Saturday marks only the second true road game and first contest of eight played this season outside of the Los Angeles area -- the other lone LA area road game was an 84-75 overtime win at Azusa Pacific
• Won two of the past three games played in HSU's Lumberjack Arena with the lone defeat coming in last November's contest
• Coached by fourth-year head coach Danelle Bishop. ... she has compiled a 67-28 mark in her stint at the Broncos helm. ...beginning her 11th-year overall as a head coach including four 20-win and NAIA playoff campaigns at Azusa Pacific. ...took the team to the West Region and CCAA title three years ago where Broncos finished with a 28-5 record overall and 19-3 mark in the league.
• CPP received four first-place votes in the CCAA Preseason Coaches Poll, second most of any team. ...overall, voted second of the 12 teams with 101 points.
• Completed a 14-13 record and 12-10 CCAA 2012-13 season.
• Arizona State transfer center Jada Blackwell powered CPP in its comeback win last Saturday vs. HSU ... the junior pumped in seven of 16 shots from the field including both of her long-range attempts for a game-best 24 points to go with nine rebounds and four steals.
J.J. Judge also had a good contest with 18 points, seven rebounds, five assists and four blocked shots.
Ariel Marsh hit for 10 points and Cydnie Jones grabbed 10 rebounds.
• Broncos are among the CCAA's top two teams in seven categories.
- league-best 27.9 field goals made per contests for the second-best field goal percentage of 44.4%
- CCAA's best in taking care of the basketball by committing only 14.1 turnovers per night.
• CPP is second in assists per game (15.4 apg), while third-best in scoring (74.1 ppg) in CCAA and rebounding margin (+5.0)
Broncos Players:
• C - Jada Blackwell - 2nd in CCAA scoring at 18.0 ppg. ...7th in rebounding (8.3 rpg) and 8th in field goal percentage (49.47%)
• G - Ariel Marsh - second in team and 10th in league scoring (14.0 ppg). ...5th in assists per game (3.6 apg) and 5th in free throw percentage (88.2%). team-best 11 three-pointers made and 32.4%.
• G - J.J. Judge - hitting for 12.4 ppg and grabbing 5.4 rpg.
• G - Cydnie Jones - averaging nearly a double-double per game at 8.4 ppg and 9.3 rpg (2nd-best in CCAA) ...rates 8th in steals (2.1 spg) and 9th in assists (3.0 apg) in CCAA.
• G - Tyler Woods - ranks T8th in CCAA at foul line with 80.0%
• Seven players averaging at least 5.3 points per game.
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