March 3, 2008
South Puget Sound Community College Clippers cap off big hoops season
The South Puget Sound Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams completed successful seasons by earning division honors and appearing in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) conference tournament.
The men (9-7 division, 14-15 overall) bounced back from last season’s rebuilding year to claim third place in the NWAACC’s western division. They went 0-2 at the conference tournament, falling to Clackamas Community College 93-71 and to Everett Community College 92-86. Clipper guard Chris Scott, who led the entire conference with a season average of more than nine assists per game and set an NWAACC single-game assist record with 17 against Green River Community College on Jan. 21, was named western division MVP.
The women (13-3 division, 17-11 overall) also finished third in the western division despite having only six players for the last six weeks of the season. In the conference tournament, they upset Umpqua Community College 77-63 in their opener, lost to eventual conference champion Columbia Basin College 58-43 in the second round and were knocked out by western division No. 1 seed Centralia College 64-54. Freshman forward Alicia Richardson was a first-team all-star selection in the western division while freshman guard Whitney Titus was a second-team selection. Clipper head coach Dee Dee Horton was chosen as the western division’s Women’s Coach of the Year.