Southern Utah
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Southern Utah women's basketball coach Steve Hodson announced Friday the signing of four players to natonal letters of intent. Two are Utah all-state prep athletes: Jamie Sagers, a 6-5 senior post player at Orem High School, and Caitlyn Sears, a 5-11 senior guard/forward from Cedar Hills' Lone Peak High School. SUU also signed Kaila Goff, a 5-7 senior guard from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nev., and Challis Pascucci, a 6-3 senior forward Agua Fria High School in Goodyear, Ariz.
T-Birds 'dumb' enough to outgun Utes in Salt Lake--deseretnews.com
Thunderbirds shoot lights out in big upset victory over Utes--deseretnews.com
Season-opening shocker: Southern Utah stuns Utes--deseretnews.com
ROUNDUP: Oakland rolls, 81-42--The Detroit Free Press
OU has no trouble finding scoring--The Oakland Press
By CRYSTAL EVOLA Of The Oakland Press
Kangas has five treys in third start for OU, as Grizzlies win openers
ROCHESTER — Losing last season’s scoring leader looked to be a non-issue for the Oakland University men’s basketball team on Friday.
The Golden Grizzlies received double-digit scoring from three of its players en route to a 81-42, season-opening win over Defi ance College before an announced crowd of 1,691 at the Oakland Athletics Center.
Sophomore guard Erik Kangas led the way with 5-for-8 shooting from behind the 3-point arc to fi nish with a game-high 19 points and help OU win its season opener for the fi rst time since 2003.
Expect to see more games like this from Kangas this season.
“It’s not new to me,” senior guard Rick Billings said of Kangas’ shooting. “I see it every day in practice. I don’t know if a lot of people understand the extent to where he can shoot the ball. When he misses, that’s new to me.”
Kangas single-handedly racked up more 3s than the Yellow Jackets could muster as a full squad (4-for-17) in a lop-sided game that featured the overmatched Division III team from Ohio.
Kangas made the most of OU coach Greg Kampe giving him his third career start.
“They’re looking for a big year out of me,” Kangas said. “Kampe put me in the starting role, so I’m going to need to knock down some shots this year. If we want to be successful. It feels good that I was able to do it in the fi rst game.”
OU (1-0) had too many weapons for Defi ance (0-1) to contain, as the Grizzlies were able to enjoy the luxury of subbing all of their bench players into the game as early as the first half.
The Grizzlies had nine of 11 players score at least one point.
Sophomore forward Derick Nelson came off the bench to have 18 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals to help OU’s cause.
OU used a well-balanced offensive attack to jump out to a 26-8 lead in the opening 14 minutes to bury the Yellow Jackets for good.
Billings added 12 points, six rebounds and four steals for the Grizzlies.
This was OU’s first regularseason game, and the first without Calvin Wooten, last year’s leading scorer, lost to academic ineligibility.
It didn’t matter in the end.
“From my standpoint, I was very pleased with the effort that we gave and the way we played,” said Kampe, who’s in his 23rd season. “We only dress 11 guys and all 11 got to play a lot and they played extremely hard one through 11, so I was pleased.”
Defiance didn’t hit the 20-point plateau until the second half was already four minutes old and OU had 50 points on the scoreboard.
Sophomore center Anthony Pettaway scored 10 of his team-high 12 points in the first half for Defiance.
Defiance shot just 30 percent from the fi eld compared to OU’s 50.8 percent night.
“For the first night out I was very pleased the way we went about our business,” Kampe said. “With who we’ve got coming up and the teams looking down the line here, we need to play like this. We need to play with that level of intensity.”
Jaguars win opener in BCA--The Indy Star
Western passes exhibition testThe Macomb Journal
Poor start sinks Valpo in opener--The Post-Tribune
Crusaders fall on their face--The NWI Times
Now it counts for Crusaders--The NWI Times
Start with a shocker--The Spectrum
SUU women seek right floor combos--The Spectrum
Centenary Ladies open season with new attitude--The Shreveport Times
Southern Utah stuns Utes in season opener--The Salt Lake Tribune
Women: North Dakota State at ORU--The Tulsa World
LMU 68, ORU 65: Lions slip by Eagles--The Tulsa World
SOUTHLAND BASKETBALL ROUNDUP--The LA Times
Loyola Marymount 68, Oral Roberts 65 — Matthew Knight had 23 points and Brandon Worthy scored 19 to lead the host Lions in the season opener for both schools. Ken Tutt of Oral Roberts led all scorers with 26 points.
Ladies Host Texas Pan American in Season Opener--GoCentenary.Com
Gents Open Season Saturday at TCU--GoCentenary.Com
DEFENSE REVS UP AS JAGS ROLL OVER ALABAMA A&M, 86-47--IUPUI JAGUAR ATHLETICS
It's For Real Now: UMKC Opens Regular Season Saturday At Home Against Northern Colorado--UMKC Kangaroos
Oakland Blows Past Defiance in Basketball Season Opener--OUGrizzlies.com
Golden Eagles Drop Season Opener at Loyola Marymount, 68-65--Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles
ORU Set to Host Bison in Season Opener--Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles
Thunderbirds Overcome Sluggish Start, Upset Utah--SOUTHERN UTAH THUNDERBIRDS
T-BIRDS SIGN FOUR PREPSTERS TO NATIONAL LETTERS OF INTENT--SOUTHERN UTAH THUNDERBIRDS
Crusaders Kick Off Regular Season At ARC Versus Calumet--www.valpo.edu
Slow Start Dooms Valpo in Season Opener--www.valpo.edu
Women's basketball gets set to start the 2006-07 season on the road at Drake--Western Illinois Athletics
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