Dan Fotu leads St Mary's to victory
Dan Fotu and St Mary’s College, California beat Pepperdine 66-61 in West Coast conference play. The 2018 Tall Black had 14 points (5/10FG) and 7 rebounds in 37 minutes for the Gaels.
Virginia Commonwealth University enjoyed double success with victories over La Salle (63-62 in overtime) and a more convincing 64-49 against St Joseph’s. Tall Fern Akienne-Tera Reed tallied 11 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists against La Salle followed by 14 points against St Joe’s.
With the wins VCU improved to 9-4, equal 4th in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Also in the West Coast Conference Emme Shearer is enjoying an excellent freshman season at the University of Portland. However her 11 points (4/8FG) couldn’t prevent a 75-68 loss at the hands of BYU.
In Junior College Jazz Kailahi-Fulu and Keeley Tini are in terrific form for Williston State College.
The pair won Sal’s NBL Championship winning medals with Harbour Breeze last year and are carrying the form demonstrated in that campaign into 2021. In their latest performances Jazz scored 15 points and Keeley 13 as Williston sunk Bismarck College 57-51
Jazz is 8th on the national Junior College leaderboard for scoring with 172 points with Keeley 22nd having scored 154 points.
Jordyn Maddix and Parehuia Delamere, combined for 7/13 from beyond the arc to help propel Western Texas to a 72-67 win at Howard College. Jordyn finished with a season high 19 points (5/10 3PG), plus 5 rebounds whilst Parehuia had a tidy 10 points (4/5FG), 4 rebounds and a couple of steals.
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