WESLEY SPRING 2010 - Wesley Magazine - Wesley College

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLFinishing Strongreview | SPORTSEVERY SEASON for every team has akey moment. For Wesley College’swomen’s basketball team, that momentcame in the Wolverines’ own holidaytournament. Injuries were derailingwhat looked to be a promising seasonand the team had lost six of its pastseven games entering the second dayof the tournament.Wesley was facing an always toughWidener team and needed a win. TheWolverines came out and never trailedin that game to get momentum going inthe right direction. Another win overRowan kept it going and after six straightconference wins, Wesley was right backin the thick of the playoff hunt in theCapital Athletic Conference (CAC).Overall, Wesley won 15 of its last 18regular season games and finished thirdin the CAC.During the impressive finish, Wesleygot healthy and the newcomers improvedas the year went on, in part due to extratime gained when other players wereinjured earlier in the year. Junior forwardAngie Owens stepped up and earnedthree Conference Player of the Weekawards and a D3hoops.com NationalTeam of the Week accolade during thesecond half of the season. ClassmateCory Boyd again was ranked among thenational leaders and paced the CAC inassists. Freshman Jazmine Miller scored17 or more points in a game on threeoccasions.The Wolverines entered the playoffsfacing off with Gallaudet and ConferencePlayer of the Year Easter Faafiti. TheBison kept pace with Wesley in the firsthalf, but the Wolverines opened thesecond half with a 22-2 run and neverlooked back to advance to the CACsemifinals for the second straight year.National power Marymount (Va.) haltedWesley, but the opening round win overGallaudet was the squad’s 17th of theseason. That total was enough to earn theWolverines a trip to the Eastern CollegeAthletic Conference (ECAC) SouthTournament, where Wesley’s seasoncame to an end with a 17-11 record.Owens and Boyd were named to theAll-CAC team and Owens earned bothECAC All-Star and D3hoops.com All-Region honors. Boyd became Wesley’sall-time assist leader and ended the yearwith over 100 more than her nearestcompetitor. Owens scored her 1,000thpoint late in the season, becoming theeighth player in the Division III era to doso. She also grabbed 226 defensiverebounds to set Wesley’s single seasonrecord and climbed to be among theschool’s all-time leaders in reboundsand blocked shots.Owens also added the three-pointfield goal to her arsenal. After not hittingMichele Mules ’10a three in her first two seasons, she shot42 percent from behind the arc. Theteam’s lone senior, Michele Mules,finished her career fourth at Wesley with122 career three-point field goals, andreserve Shavonda Cephas emerged asone of the top long distance shootersin the conference, hitting 40 percent ofher attempts.The year continued the rebuilding ofthe program under fourth-year HeadCoach James Wearden. His two mostrecent teams have put together 34 totalwins and two ECAC bids after his firsttwo tallied just 19 wins. With fourstarters and nearly every key reservereturning next year, Wesley will look tocarry this season’s strong finish into2010-11. ■WEARE.WESLEY.EDU 21