Women's Hoops Rides Seven-game Win Streak
December 23, 1998
STREAKS: Oregon State is currently on a seven-game winning streak overall, a one-game Pac-10 losing streak, a four-game road winning streak, and a three-game Gill Coliseum winning streak. The Beavers have won 35 of their last 50 (.700) games played at Gill Coliseum. Over the last six seasons OSU is 53-20 (.726) at Gill Coliseum. The Beavers' current seven-game winning streak is the longest since OSU won nine straight games in 1995-96. That team also had an 8-1 in preseason record, losing the second game of the season to Connecticut, ranked in the top 10. This year's OSU team lost its second game of the season to Colorado State, currently ranked ninth in the nation.
GAMES: Oregon State (8-1) vs. Portland Saints, Tuesday, December 29
Oregon State (8-1) vs. Stanford (4-6), Saturday, January 2
Oregon State (8-1) vs. California (5-2), Monday, January 4
SITE: Gill Coliseum (10,400), Corvallis
TIMES: OSU-Portland Saints, 7:35 PST
OSU-Stanford, 7:05 PST
OSU-California, 7:05 PST
RADIO: OSU-Portland Saints, no live radio
OSU-Stanford and OSU-Cal, Live over KLOO
(1340 AM) in Corvallis, starting at 6:45 p.m.
TV: None
PROBABLE OSU (8-1, 0-0)
STANFORD (4-6, 0-0)
STARTERS:
F - Tammy Arnold, 6-3, JR, 10.4, 6.7 F - Lindsey Yamasaki, 6-1, FR, 15.2, 6.2 F - Felicia Ragland, 5-9, FR, 6.1, 4.2 F - Sarah Dimson, 6-0, SO, 8.7, 5.5 C - Sissel Pierce, 6-4, JR, 13.1, 6.7 C - Carolyn Moos, 6-6, SO, 16.0, 6.0 G - Chassie Wiersma, 5-11, FR, 8.3, 4.4 G - Christina Batastini, 5-10, JR, 6.6, 2.0 G - Cherrith Wiersma, 5-9, FR, 4.8, 2.8 G - Milena Flores, 5-6, JR, 5.3, 3.3CALIFORNIA (5-2, 0-0)
F - Lauren Ashbaugh, 6-2, SO, 4.2, 5.5 F - Paige Bowie, 6-0, JR, 13.5, 4.7 C - Jennie Leander, 6-3, SR, 10.8, 7.7 G - Courtney Johnson, 5-8, SO, 10.5, 4.0 G - Sherrise Smith, 5-5, SR, 6.0, 2.7TICKETS: Reserved seat tickets for OSU home games are priced at $8.00. Adult general admission tickets are priced at $6.00 for adults and GA tickets for students, high school age and under, and seniors are $4.00. Gill Coliseum doors will open one hour prior to tip-off.
RADIO: All regular season Oregon State women's basketball games, home and away, will be carried live over KLOO (1340 AM). The OSU-Portland Saints game will not be broadcast. Air time is 6:45 p.m. for the OSU-Stanford and OSU-California games. KEX Sports Director Scott Lynn will broadcast the OSU-Stanford game, while KEX's Nate Lundy will call the OSU-California contest.
RANKINGS: For the first time this season, Oregon State received votes on the AP poll. The Beavers received 11 votes to rank 30th on this week's AP poll. OSU did not receive any votes on the USA Today Coaches poll. Stanford and California did not receive any votes in either poll this week.
SPOELSTRA RECORD: Judy Spoelstra (Oregon State, 83) is in her fourth season as OSU's head coach. Spoelstra is 45-47 (.489) in four seasons at OSU and she is 143-115 (.554) in 10 seasons as a collegiate head coach, her first six being at Montana State.
NON-CONFERENCE RECORD: Oregon State has an all-time non-conference record of 215-103 (since 1977) for a .676 percentage.
SPOELSTRA RADIO SHOW: Coach Spoelstra will have a live one-hour radio show during the season on Tuesday nights over KLOO (1340 AM) with Nate Lundy serving as the host. The next show will air live from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, January 5, at the Headline Cafe at 3rd and Jefferson in Corvallis.
JANUARY SCHEDULE: Following the California game on January 4, OSU will go on the road to Los Angeles to meet UCLA and USC. The Beavers' January schedule follows:
Jan. 8 at UCLA Los Angeles 7:00 PST Jan. 10 at USC Los Angeles 2:00 PST Jan. 15 WASHINGTON STATE GILL COLISEUM 7:05 PST Jan. 17 WASHINGTON GILL COLISEUM 1:05 PST Jan. 21 at Arizona State Tempe, AZ 6:00 PST Jan. 23 at Arizona Tucson, AZ 6:00 PST
HONORS: Oregon State honors during 1998-99 to date:
Tammy Arnold
Sissel Pierce
Selected MVP of Corvallis Gazette-Times Classic
Selected to Corvallis GT Classic
all-tourney team
Selected to Corvallis Gazette-Times Classic all-tourney team
Selected Pac-10 Player of the Week, December 14
DOUBLE-DOUBLES: Sissel Pierce picked up her first double-double of the season and sixth career double-double with a 16 point, 10 rebound performance at Idaho State. Freshman Chassie Wiersma got Beaver career off to a fast start in 1998-99 by producing a double-double (16 points and 12 rebounds) in her first collegiate game in OSU's 71-67 victory over San Diego State. The Beavers added a pair of double-doubles while winning their own Corvallis Gazette-Times Classic Tournament. Freshman Felicia Ragland added her first collegiate double-double against Eastern Washington and Tammy Arnold followed with her first OSU double-double in the championship game against UC Irvine. Double-double games for Beaver players during the 1998-99 season (with career total in parenthesis) follows:
DATE PLAYER OPPONENT TOTALS 11/17 Chassie Wiersma (1) San Diego State 16 pts, 12 reb 11/27 Felicia Ragland (1) Eastern Washington 14 pts, 11 reb 11/28 Tammy Arnold (1) UC Irvine 14 pts, 12 reb 12/5 Sissel Pierce (6) Idaho State 16 pts, 10 reb
BEAVERS ON THE TUBE: Oregon State will have the following five appearances on television in 1998-99:
Friday, Jan. 15 OSU vs. Washington State
Delayed Fox Sports Northwest, 10:00 a.m. on 1/16
Sunday, Jan. 17 OSU vs. Washington
Delayed Fox Sports Northwest, TBA
Saturday, Feb. 6 OSU vs. UCLA
Live Fox Sports Net, 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 21 OSU vs. Arizona State Live
Fox Sports Net, 1:00 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 26 OSU vs. Oregon
Delayed Fox Sports Northwest, 9:00 a.m. on 2/27
OSU-STANFORD SERIES: Oregon State and Stanford have played 25 times previously and the Cardinal holds a 20-5 edge in the overall series, including a current winning streak of seven games. The last Beaver victory was 78-63 in front of 9,418 fans at Gill Coliseum, the current OSU record for single-game attendance. All five Beaver victories have been at Gill Coliseum. OSU is 5-7 vs. Stanford at Gill Coliseum.
OSU-CALIFORNIA SERIES: Oregon State leads the overall series 20-15, including a current one-game winning streak overall and a six-game winning streak at Gill Coliseum. The Bears last victory over the Beavers at Gill Coliseum was 78-71 in 1992. Overall, OSU is 12-3 vs. California at Gill Coliseum. The Bears won 77-64 at Oakland last year.
BEST START: Oregon State's 8-1 start is the best preseason mark by any team in the Pac-10 Conference. Oregon at 8-2 has the next best record, while WSU, ASU and California have only had two defeats. Oregon, Arizona and California have games remaining before the start of Pac-10 play.
3-POINTERS: Oregon State is shooting .319 as a team from 3-point range, having connected on 29 of 91 attempts, including a 6 of 9 shooting game at Montana in its best effort of the season. The Beavers are on a streak of 45 straight games in which they have made a 3-point shot. OSU had a school record streak of 71 straight stopped by Arizona State on 1/25/97 at Corvallis. Guards Syesha Thomas (3-4), Chassie Wiersma (3-6), Vanessa Morris (11-28) and Cherrith Wiersma (5-15) are the leaders in 3-point shooting percentage for the Beavers. Vanessa Morris has shot the most 3-pointers (28) and made the most (11).
BLOCKED SHOTS: Junior center Sissel Pierce has blocked a shot in seven of nine games this year and leads OSU with 15 on the season. Sissel has 71 career blocks, which places her seventh on the Beavers' all-time chart. Her next stop on the career chart is Debbie Dalluge, who is in sixth place with 89. OSU's career and season top 10 lists follow:
CAREER SEASON 1-Carol Menken-Schaudt (1979-81) 143 1-Carol Menken-Schaudt (1981) 69 2-Tanya Mothershed (1982-85) 128 2-Carol Menken-Schaudt (1980) 52 3-Jan Martin (1980-83) 116 3-Jan Martin (1983) 50 4-Brenda Arbuckle (1984-87) 115 4-Brenda Arbuckle (1985) 47 5-Judy Shannon (1991-92) 92 5-Judy Shannon (1991) 46 6-Debbie Dalluge (1985-89) 89 6-Judy Shannon (1992) 46 7-Sissel Pierce (1997) 71 7-Sissel Pierce (1998) 46CLIMBING THE 3-POINT CHART: Junior guard Vanessa Morris continues her climb up the OSU charts of career 3-point shots made and attempted. Morris is currently fourth in career 3-point attempts (186) and fourth in career 3-point shots made (59). Morris needs to make 10 more 3-pointers to move up another notch on the career chart. Nicole McAllister is third in made 3-pointers (68) and in 3-point attempts (224). Career charts follow for 3-pointers:
CAREER ATTEMPTS CAREER MADE 1-Anette Mollerstrom (1993-96) 309 1-Anette Mollerstrom (1993-96) 113 2-A.J. Dionne (1993-96) 289 2-A.J. Dionne (1993-96) 96 3-Nicole McAllister (1995-98) 224 3-Nicole McAllister (1995-98) 68 4-Vanessa Morris (1997) 186 4-Vanessa Morris (1997- 59OSU SHOOTING/REBOUNDING: Oregon State's shooting and rebounding totals and opponents shooting and rebounding totals for the 1998-99 season follow:
OPPONENT OSU Pct. Reb/Ast/TO Pts OPP. Pct /Reb/Ast/TO Pts San Diego State .547 43 20/28 71 .344 33 13/21 67 Colorado State .429 34 10/33 61 .583 29 18/27 79 Eastern Washington .514 43 22/15 100 .377 38 12/33 54 UC Irvine .385 44 12/19 62 .357 32 9/18 53 Montana .444 39 11/21 61 .320 29 5/19 48 Idaho State .409 46 13/17 70 .327 35 11/21 64 Portland .367 41 13/20 59 .360 41 14/23 55 Long Beach State .469 35 17/21 69 .315 37 13/27 52 Portland State .431 36 15/20 66 .340 41 8/24
