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WCBL Announces 2009 Executive of the Year Award

Curt Pickering — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:16:04 +0000

The West Coast Pro Basketball League announces today the 2009 Executive of the Year Award. Sharing the honors is Owner/Head Coach Patrick Davis and General Manager Susan Houlihan-Davis of the Ventura County Jets. The Jets were successful in further establishing their team and organization in the Ventura County area, receiving significant media coverage, while continuing to build and increase their fan base in the Ventura/Oxnard region.

DFenders Sign Second Breakers 7-Footer

Curt Pickering — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:14:06 +0000

The Santa Barbara Breakers of the West Coast Professional Basketball League announced that October 2008 signee Gabriel Hughes has signed with the Los Angeles DFenders of the NBDL, the NBA’s developmental league.

Hughes, 7’0, 260 pounds is a 2003 graduate of the University of Cal-Berkeley. He has played overseas in Romania, Spain, UAE and Japan.

Hughes recently played for the Breakers averaging 12 point, 10 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per contests during the 2008 fall season. On January 6th, 2009, he started for the DFenders against the Utah Flash, the Utah Jazz’s NBDL affiliate team. in only his second game. He will share center duties with Breakers center, Rashid Byrd. Byrd, who was named WCBL Defensive Player of the Year 2008, has been with the DFenders since training camp and logging quality minutes through their first 16 games.

Both Hughes and Byrd plan to play for the Breakers when the WCBL 2009 season begins April 25.

For information on the Breakers, go to: www.breakersbasketball.com

Beijing Win WCBl Opener

Curt Pickering — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:11:56 +0000

The Beijing Aoshen Olympian’s were victorious in their WCBL debut, beating the Ventura County Jets 106-100. The game was played at Biejing’s homesite in Rosemead, California. The Jets got off to an 8 point lead in the first half but were plagued throughout the game with fouls, leading Beijing to a 24-33 march to the free throw line. The Jets were 12-14 at the charity stripe for the game. Beijing edged out the Jets in rebounds 41-37 but the Jets kept the game close with their harrassing defense, forcing Beijing into 18 turnovers for the game, compared to the Jets 6. Leading the way in scoring for Beijing was guard Sheldon Pace with 35; Jin Xin 20 points; Tyree Jones 17 points; Zhang Songtao and Huang Haibe, both with 12. Haibel led Beijing with 9 rebounds.

For the VC Jets, Tree Small, last year’s WCBL scoring champion, scored 21 points and 6 rebounds. Topping the Jets scoring list was Elijah Muldrow with 27 points on 5 of 8 3 point attempts; Casey Cook with 15 points and 6 rebounds and Donte Lincoln adding 11.
Beijing will be back in league action Wednesday night, April 8 with a home game against the Newport Beach Surf. Game time is 705pm.

NEWPORT BEACH AND NBA TANDEM UPSET BEIJING

Curt Pickering — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:10:48 +0000

With former NBA stars Bryon Russell and Lammond Murray dominating at the offensive end, the Newport Beach Surf upset the Beijing Aoshen Olympian’s 122-118 at the Don Bosco Sports Arena.

Aided by 3 point scoring, the Surf quickly jumped out to a 21-12 score in the first quarter. Sheldon Pace (34 points) took notice and went on a torrid scoring pace inside and out to lead a comeback and lead 31-28 at the end of the
first quarter.

With Mark Dawson controlling the boards (11 caroms) and point guard Bruce Prince scoring and distributing, the Surf re-took command of the game, leading 60-53 at the half. Prince finished with 27 points, 7 assists and 9 rebounds. He was
also a thorn in the side at the free throw line, nailing 11 of 12. Coming off the bench and providing offensive support was guard James Reynolds with 15 (4-6 treys); Cornell Williams 11 points and Jason Harris 10 points.

In the second half, the Surf lead by 19 points, 112-93. This hit a nerve with the Olympians. Behind Huo Nan’s scoring both from outside and off the fastbreak (23 points), the Olympian’s made a valliant comeback and actually led 118-116 with 27 ticks remaining in the game. This called for game heroics and veteran Lammond Murray provided such. With 13 seconds left in the game, Murray launched a rainbow deep from the left corner, over 6’10 Li Wei’s outstretched arms. It was nothing but net and the Surf were back up one. The Olympian’s were unable to score on their last two possessions and the Surf had their first victory of the 2009 WCBL season.

Scoring for the Olympian’s, besides Pace and Nan, was Tyree Jones 20; Wei 11 and Zhang Songtao’s 10 points/12 rebounds.

BREAKERS TAKE ON FIRST PLACE NEWPORT BEACH

Curt Pickering — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:10:02 +0000

The Santa Barbara Breakers are treading on unfamiliar waters as they were bumped from first place earlier this week by the Newport Beach Surf. After subduing the Pasadena Slam 134-115 Tuesday night, the Surf are now 5-1 as they come to SBCC saturday for an encounter against the Breakers (4-1). The Breakers lost their first WCBL game in two years last sunday against the Ventura County Jets 115-107. That snapped a WCBL 22 game winning streak which includeds the 2008 18-0 perfect season.

The Surf come into saturdays game boasting 7 players averaging double figures. Leading the way is point guard Vince Camper at 26ppg followed closely by Jason Harris at 25.5 and Deshae Rockett at 24.3. Manning the frontline is 6’9 Marcell Jackson (Long Beach St) with 8.2 rebounds per game; 6’9 Tez Banks at 16 points per game and Ryan Hynes (6’8) 11.0 ppg. Not to be overlooked, 6’7 Mike Martin also tallies 19.3 ppg and point guard James Reynolds at 12.2 ppg.

The Surf play a fast, aggressive game under the direction of Coach Kirk Turner, former assistant coach in the ABA for the now defunct Long Beach
Jam.

The Breakers have been led so far by Allan Purnell at 21.2 ppg; Tim Taylor’s 20.4 and Zack Fray’s 19.9 ppg. Point guard Mark Peters has returned to the Breakers and injured 2008 WCBL MVP Josh Merrill is expected to play this weekend after sitting out last weeks two games due to a bruised heel that limited his ability to jump and sprint. Also contributing to the Breakers attack is Santiago Aguirre, 12 ppg/9rpg and big guard Isaiah Orange at 11ppg and 8 rpg. Center Jeremy Vague (6’11) recorded his first career triple double at Pasadena on May 26 and averages 13 points and 11 reboundsper game. Sharing point guard duties with Peters is local favorite Shantay Legans.