Box Score TURLOCK — A 24-3 Cal Poly Pomona run in the middle of the second half pretty much ended the Warriors' hope of making it to the conference tournament.
Jasmine Washington led the Warriors with 17 points and
Briana Cotton added 16 but Stanislaus dropped the must-win game to the No. 15 ranked Broncos, 69-58, Friday night.
Still, for Cal State Stanislaus, it was a season full of major accomplishments for a supposed-to-be rebuilding program. The Warriors went from a 2-win season to 13 in the toughest Division II conference in the NCAA.
The Warriors are guaranteed to finish with at least a .500 record — the best mark since 2002-03 when that team went 18-10.
While head coach
Wayman Strickland probably hoped for more from his young talented squad, Friday night, the Warriors show flashes of greatness against the nationally ranked team.
The Warriors (13-12, 10-11 CCAA) were down by just one point against the titans on a Lauren Godden jumper at 13:10 in the second half to make it 42-41.
But that's when the Broncos made the run. First a 14-0 run with Jada Blackwell scoring five of those points. Then after an
Ana Burch three-pointer, Cal Poly Pomona went on a 10-0 run to build a 66-44 lead on a Mian Dingle bucket at 5:27 left.
Blackwell finished with 18 points and 13 rebounds as Cal Poly Pomona improved to 21-4 overall and 18-3 in the CCAA. The top scoring team in the CCAA also got 18 points from Ariel Marsh and 14 from J.J. Judge. The five staters combined for 62 of the team's 69 points.
The Warriors will host Humboldt State Saturday night, on senior night, to wrap-up their season. Humboldt State beat Chico, 66-50, in Chico Friday night to move up to seventh place and one game behind sixth place Cal State East Bay. The top six teams in the standings after tomorrow night will advance to the CCAA conference championship tournament in Ontario next week.