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Lions Women Lose 1st Game

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By BART O'CONNELL Tribune correspondent

The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 13, 2008

ST. LEO - Despite 10 points and 11 rebounds from Dominique Daniels, the Saint Leo women's basketball team suffered its first loss of the season in its first Sunshine State Conference game, 64-54 to Barry in Miami Shores last Saturday.

The Lions also watched a six-game winning streak end thanks to the Bucs' frontcourt duo of Alisha Sanford and Mariesa Greene, who each notched double-doubles. Sanford had 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Greene added 14 points and 10 rebounds.

Melissa Guerero and Lauren Lee each scored in double figures for the Lions (6-1), who next play at Flagler today at 5 p.m.

MEN HEAD WEST: The men's basketball team (4-4) split a pair of games this week before undergoing another type of split - to the west coast for games in Washington and Alaska during the next week.

Junior Jordan Prais had 21 points and 20 rebounds in a 93-84 win against Florida College at the Bowman Center on Thursday. The men lost 62-59 to West Alabama last Saturday.

The Lions will be in Seattle to play Seattle Pacific today at 5 p.m. Games in Alaska begin on Tuesday.

REWRITING THE RECORDS: At the Savannah College of Art and Design Invitational in Savannah, Ga. last Friday, former Land O' Lakes swimming star Tim Olson joined Matt Attal in breaking Saint Leo school records.

Olson obliterated his school mark in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1 minute, 57.80 seconds, winning the only heat by a Lions swimmer at the meet. Attal finished the 1,650-meter freestyle in 16:48.12, easily breaking his record of 17:11.50.

As a team, Saint Leo finished fourth.

CARUSONE WINS SIX: Lions record-setting women's swimmer Julie Carusone won six events at the SCAD women's meet last weekend. She had two separate victories in the 400 individual medley and the 200 breaststroke, and one win each in the 200 IM and 200 back.

MORE HARDWARE: As the women's soccer awards season dies down, Hannah Beard was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/adidas Division II All-America second team, and G Lauren Hudson, a Mitchell High product who just finished her senior season, earned third-team honors.

AROUND CAMPUS: Riverview P/INF Katie Gwinn, an All-Hillsborough County honorable mention selection in the Tribune last year, joined Manatee Community College utility player Sarah Boyd in agreeing to join the Lions during the early signing period. Boyd hit .400 last season at the junior-college level. ... The men's lacrosse team was picked to finish ninth in the LAXnews.com preseason poll. The season begins Feb. 20.

Bart O'Connell can be reached at tampasport@gmail.com.

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