Ward's
Triple-Double Leads Pirates
2-27-2010 For
the past six weeks, Pirate
sophomore Erika
Ward has been playing
through a high ankle sprain she
suffered on Jan. 13 at
Moorpark. Saturday night
she broke through with the first
triple-double in a very long
time, possibly ever, for Ventura
College. Her 18 points, 10
rebounds, and 10 assists led the
Pirates to an 83-63 Southern
California Regional Semifinal
win over visiting Cypress
College Saturday night at the
Athletic Event Center.
With the win, the second-seed
Pirates will host #7 seed San
Bernardino Valley on Saturday
March 6 at the Athletic Event
Center. READ MORE...
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Pirates
Earn #2 Seed in SoCal
Playoffs
2-22-2010
The Pirates have
received the #2 seed
in the Southern
California Regional
Playoffs. The
will host a regional
semifinal on
Saturday Feb. 27 at
7:00 pm against #18
Cypress, who won at
#15 Santa Monica on
Wednesday,
74-69. The
Pirates' playoff
games will be heard
live on AM 1400 KKZZ
and online at www.HomeFieldSports.com.
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Four Pirates Earn All-WSC Honors
2-21-2010 Four Pirates
were voted onto the All-Western
State Conference team at a
coaches meeting held on Feb. 21.
Chanelle Brennan was named
the conference Most Valuable
Player while
Amanda Padilla,
Erika Ward, and
Kris King joined her as
1st-Team All-WSC honorees.
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VC
Saves Best For Last in Oxnard
Win
2-20-2010
The 20-Peat WSC Championship
t-shirts had been printed.
The six VC sophomores and their
parents had been introduced to
the sizable early-arriving
crowd. All that was left
was basketball. In one of
their best efforts of the year,
the Pirates saved the best for
last on sophomore night,
defeating the Oxnard College
Condors 78-49 Saturday night at
the Athletic Event Center in the
regular season finale.
Four players scored in double
figures, and two produced
In-N-Out special double-doubles
as Ventura wrapped up their
third consecutive 12-0 WSC North
campaign, ending the regular
season with a stellar 29-1
record.
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Brennan named WSC Player of the
Week
2-16-2010
What a week for Pirate sophomore
Chanelle Brennan. Her
31 point performance led Ventura
past Santa Barbara on Wednesday.
She scored 12 of VC's 14 points
in the decisive run in the
second half as Ventura clinched
its 20th consecutive Western
State Conference championship.
Then she led the Pirates with 22
points against LA Pierce on
Saturday. In the first
half, she converted
Kris King's assist and
became the 8th player in Ventura
College history to surpass the
1,000 point benchmark, the first
Pirate since 2004. For her
efforts, Chanelle was named the
WSC Player of the Week for the
period of February 8-14, 2010.
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Brennan,
Padilla Lead VC Past LA Pierce
2-13-2010
Amanda
Padilla’s mastery of the
Pirate offense continues to
improve as the season winds
down.
She scored 19 points on
7-11 shooting with six assists
as
Ventura
raced past LA Pierce College
Saturday evening 79-47 at Brahma
Gym in Woodland Hills.
Meanwhile Chanelle
Brennan became the eighth
Pirate to pass the 1,000 career
point milestone as VC wrapped up
outright their 20th
consecutive Western State
Conference title.
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Pirates
Clinch 20-Peat in Santa Barbara,
74-66
2-10-2010
It was a total team
effort. Chanelle
Brennan scored 31 points and
six rebounds; Erika
Ward had nine points, 11
boards, five assists and four
steals; Amanda
Padilla had 14 points with
four assists; Kris
King netted 13 points with
eight rebounds; Gabrielle
Conn, in her first game back
following a tonsillectomy, did
the dirty work on the defensive
end, as did Suzie
Faanono, Lacey
Escamilla, and Brenda
Van Someren. There
were other contributions as
well, as the Pirates clinched at
least a share of their 20th
consecutive Western State
Conference championship, a
20-Peat, with a 74-66 victory at
Santa Barbara City College
Wednesday evening.
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Getting
Up to Speed From
the Ventura County Star
by Joe Curley
2-10-2010
It was her opening week of
practice at Ventura College and
the coaching staff might as well
have been speaking a foreign
language. Chanelle
Brennan had never run a
scripted fastbreak. It didn’t
feel like the game she knew.
“I
was confused,” said Brennan.
“I wasn’t used it. I asked
myself why we were doing it.”
Nearly
two seasons and countless
flowing trips down the floor
later, Brennan, the loping legs
of the Pirates’ swashbuckling
fastbreak, looks like she’s
been running the system her
entire life. “Now,”
said Brennan, “it seems easy
to me.” READ
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VC
Tested by Moorpark, Wins
72-63
2-6-2010
Ventura hit six free throws
in the final minute to
finally put away a scrappy
Moorpark Raider team 72-63
at the Athletic Event Center
Saturday night. On an
night when VC hosted its
annual barbeque fundraiser,
and honored its favorite
teachers the Raiders played
an excellent game to keep
the outcome in doubt until
the final minute of the
contest. Chanelle
Brennan shot 10-13 from
the floor, netting 24
points, and Amanda
Padilla scored 20 as VC
reduced their magic number
to two to clinch their 20th
consecutive Western State
Conference
championship. The
Pirates travel to
second-place Santa Barbara
on Wednesday to reduce the
Magic number to
zero. READ
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2010
Favorite Teachers
2-6-2010
On
Feb. 6 the Pirates honored
their favorite teachers of
2010: Gary Amar
(Speech), Michelle Beard
(Math), Lucy Capuano-Brewer
(Psychology), Lydia
Cosentino (English), Tomás
Sanchez (History), and Asher
Sund (English). Read
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Ventura
Cruises Past Cuesta 66-26
2-3-2010
The Pirates used a 16-0 run
around halftime to turn a
17-point game into a
33-point route Wednesday
evening at the Athletic
Event Center. When the
dust had settled, VC cruised
past Cuesta in a 66-26
sleeper at the Athletic
Event Center. Chanelle
Brennan led four players
in double-figures, including
freshman Ariel
Hale, who scored a
career-high 11 points in the
win. That brings up
the most crucial part of the
Pirates' conference schedule
in the next week against the
third and second place
teams, respectively,
beginning with Moorpark
Saturday in VC's annual
barbeque fundraiser
game. READ
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King
Earns Player of the Week For
Second Time
2-2-2010
Sophomore forward Kris
King has earned the
Western State Conference
Player of the Week award for
the second time in the past
three weeks.. Last
week in two games King had
31 points with 12 rebounds,
four assists, and three
blocked shots. She
shot 14-28 from the floor
and 3-6 from the free throw
line. Last Wednesday
against Oxnard she had 20
points and five rebounds,
shooting 9-16 in the
game. King is a
5'11" sophomore from
Royal High School in Simi
Valley. READ
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Pirates
Run Past Allan Hancock
1-27-2010
As the season moves toward
the playoffs in a few weeks,
the Pirates are beginning to
find a balance within
themselves. Saturday
night was a perfect example
as four players scored in
double figures and five
players had seven rebounds
each as VC ran past Allan
Hancock College 73-31 at Joe
White Memorial Gymnasium in
Santa Maria. Ventura
used a 10-0 run early and a
17-1 run to begin the second
half to wrap up the contest,
the first game of the second
round of Western State
Conference play. READ
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Ventura
Survives Close Game in
Oxnard
1-27-2010
It is a story that has been
played before in Oxnard. The
Pirates did not play their
best game of the season, and
that coupled with an
inspired effort by the
Oxnard Condors resulted in a
close call for the state's
top-ranked team. VC
used an 8-0 run in the
contest's final 2:14 to turn
a 3-point lead into a 63-52
win at the Condor Center
Wednesday evening. The
Pirates, who trailed by
four-points at halftime,
turned a lackluster effort
in the first 20 minutes into
solid play in the second
period in the victory.
VC was led by Kris
King's 20 points and
five rebounds while Amanda
Padilla had 13 points
and five assists. READ
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Pirates
Raise Awareness, Defeat LA
Pierce
1-20-2010
There were many activities
associated with Wednesday
evening's WBCA
Pink Zone Game at
Ventura College. Many
of them, a silent auction,
bake sale, and hand-made
jewelry sale, benefited
Ribbons of Life Breast
Cancer Foundation, a local
support group in
Ventura. In the other
activity of the evening, the
Pirates had four players
score in double-figures in
their 78-42 victory over LA
Pierce. Amanda
Padilla led the way with
17 points and eight assists
as VC moved it's WSC record
to 5-0, and their overall
record to 22-1 with seven
games remaining in the
regular season.
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Kris
King Named WSC Player of the
Week
1-19-2010
Pirate sophomore Kris
King followed up the
best week of her career with
being named the Western
State Conference North
Division Player of the Week
for Jan. 11-17. On the
week, King scored 49 points
in two games, with 13
rebounds, five assists, and
a steal. She made 23
of 30 shots from the field
(76.7%) and hit three of
five free throws.
Against Moorpark, Kris had a
career-best 32 points on
16-20 shooting, with seven
boards. Kris is a 5'11"
sophomore forward from Royal
High School in Simi Valley. READ
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Sophomores
Lead VC Into Top Spot in WSC
1-16-2010
The Pirates' four sophomore
starters all scored in
double figures to lead VC to
a 64-39 win over previously
unbeaten Santa Barbara in
WSC-North play at the
Athletic Event Center
Saturday evening. The
Pirates moved to 4-0 in
conference play, dropping
the Vaqueros to 2-1, and
with Moorpark's win over
Oxnard, who is also now 2-1,
the Pirates took over first
place alone in the
conference race. Kris
King (17 points), Chanelle
Brennan (15 points), Amanda
Padilla (14 points), and
Erika
Ward (13 points), all
hit double figures in the
balanced attack, and the
Pirate defense did its job
as well, holding a
conference opponent under 45
points for the fourth
straight game this season.
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King's
Hot Hand Leads VC Past
Moorpark, 82-38
1-13-2010 Kris
King scored 10 of the
Pirates' first 12 points,
connecting on her first five
field goal attempts, scoring a
career-high 32 points on a
record-setting 16 -20 shooting
night to lead Ventura past rival
Moorpark, 82-38, at Raider
Pavilion Wednesday
evening. The win was the
42nd consecutive win for VC over
their cross-county rivals dating
back to 1991, and it also
secured the Pirates' 21st
consecutive 20-win season.
Almost a side note to the game
was the return of point guard Amanda
Padilla, who missed six
games with a finger
injury. Padilla started
the game, handed out eight
assists, and scored 13 points
for the Pirates in her return.
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Hot
First Half Leads VC Past
Cuesta
1-9-2010
It is seldom an easy trip to
San Luis Obispo and Cuesta
College for the
Pirates. On Saturday
evening, however, they made
it look easy with a
hot-shooting first half, 15
of 28 from the floor for 53
percent, and a 26-0 run over
13 minutes of game time en
route to a 64-25 win over
the Cougars in Western State
Conference play. The
Pirate defense was stingy as
well, allowing just eight
first half points, forcing
the opponents to shoot a
mere 15 percent for the
contest. The Pirates'
big three of Chanelle
Brennan, Erika
Ward, and Kris
King scored 38 of VC's
40 first half points, and Lacey
Escamilla led the way
with seven second half
points in the triumph.
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Pirates
Win WSC Opener 79-45
1-6-2010 Just
like the 19 pervious seasons
under head coach Ned
Mircetic, the Pirates
are 1-0 to begin Western
State Conference play.
The Pirates used outstanding
offensive efforts from
sophomore standouts Chanelle
Brennan and Erika
Ward to defeat the Allan
Hancock College Lady
Bulldogs 79-45 in the
conference lid-lifter for
both teams. Brennan
and Ward netted 28 and 23
points, respectively, while
sophomore point guard Brenda
Van Someren, starting
once again for the injured Amanda
Padilla, dished out six
assists to aid the
efforts. READ
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Sophomore
Chanelle Brennan Continues
to Shine, Named WSC Player
of the Week for a Third Time
1-5-2010
Pirate sophomore Chanelle
Brennan continues to shine
this season for the
Pirates. Last week she
earned her second tournament
Most Valuable Player award
of the season, following up
the Glcrest
Invitational MVP with
the same award at the inaugural
VC-Optimist
Club Holiday Tournament.
For her efforts, she has
been awarded the Western
State Conference Player of
the Week honor for the third
time this year. In the
tournament she scored 60
points in three games with
16 rebounds, six assists,
and four steals. READ
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Defense
Leads Pirates to Optimist Title
12-30-2009 Chanelle
Brennan scored 17 points
to earn Most Valuable Player
honors and Kris
King, who was named to
the all-tournament team, and Suzie
Faanono added nine
points apiece as the
top-ranked Ventura College
women’s basketball team
turned back No. 7 San
Bernardino Valley, 52-33, in
the final of the first
annual VC-Optimist
Holiday Tournament Wednesday
night at the VC Athletic
Event Center. Despite going
more than 13 minutes without
its opening field goal,
Ventura (17-1) won its
fourth tournament of the
season and its fourth
straight game since losing
starting point guard Amanda
Padilla to a finger
injury Dec. 18. San
Bernardino (12-3) fell to
Ventura for the second time
this season. Ventura won
57-48 Dec. 10 in the
quarterfinals of
Pasadena’s Rose City
Classic. READ
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Teamwork
Leads Pirates to Win Over
Glendale
12-29-2009 When
Glendale College Head Coach
Monica Hang donned the
orange and black for Ventura
College, teamwork was a
hallmark, and as point
guard, she was at the center
of it. It was only
appropriate that despite
missing the current point
guard Amanda
Padilla (who wears the
same #10 as Hang wore) due
to injury, the Pirates used
tremendous teamwork to
defeat Hang's Vaqueros 76-59
in the semifinals of the VC-Optimist
Club Holiday Tournament.
Ventura had 17 assists
against 13 turnovers, a
positive ratio, and eight of
the 10 Pirates to see action
scored as #1-ranked VC
completed the Optimist final
match-up against 7th-ranked
San Bernardino Valley at
6:00 pm on Wednesday Dec. 30
at the Athletic Event
Center. READ
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Pirates
Use Strong Second Half in
72-39 Win
12-28-2009 The
Christmas break ended too
soon for the Pirates, so it
seemed like they took an
extra 20 minutes of vacation
on the offensive end of the
court Monday night. VC
hit just 26 percent of their
field goal attempts in the
opening half before finding
their stride in the second
of their 72-39 win over
Southwestern College in the
first round of the VC-Optimist
Club Holiday Tournament
at the Athletic Event
Center. Chanelle
Brennan's free throw
shooting carried VC in the
first half, and she was
steady in the second while Erika
Ward and Kris
King both shrugged off
sluggish starts to finish
the game strong.
Ventura advances in the
tournament to face Glendale
College in the semifinals on
Tuesday at 7:00 pm.
Glendale is coached by
former Pirate standout
Monica Hang.
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Brennan
Named WSC PoW for Second
Time
12-23-2009 For
the second time this season,
Pirate sophomore Chanelle
Brennan has been named
the Western State Conference
North Division Player of the
Week. Last week
in two games, Chanelle
scored 57 points while
dishing out six assists,
pulling down five rebounds,
and grabbing three
steals. She hit 57
percent of her field goal
attempts (19-33) and shot 90
percent from the free throw
line (18-20). On
Friday against 17th-ranked
Cypress College, Chanelle
netted a career-high 36
points, the highest point
total posted in the state
this season. READ
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Williams
Among Area Players Fitting
In at CSUMB
by
Rhiannon Potkey from the
Ventura County Star
12-20-2009
Renee Jimenez likes to joke
about putting a fence around
Ventura County to mark her
recruiting territory.
The Cal State Monterey Bay
women’s basketball coach
wants to attract as many
good local players as
possible to her
program. Although
there aren’t any “Do Not
Enter. Property of Cal State
University Monterey Bay”
signs posted on gym doors
yet, Jimenez is making
strides. The Ventura
High and Ventura College
graduate has five players
with local connections on
her roster this season,
including four starters who
came from Ventura
College. READ
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Pirates
Break For Holiday With 67-38
Victory
12-19-2009 The
Christmas break can't come too
soon for the Pirates.
Missing two starters for most of
the game, VC still managed to
easily defeat Mira Costa College
67-38 in the final game of the
We Play Hard Crossover Classic
Saturday night at the Athletic
Event Center. Already
missing injured point guard Amanda
Padilla, the Pirates lost
forward Gabrielle
Conn to an illness early in
the first half. The team
would persevered through the
adversity, led by Chanelle
Brennan's 21 points and Suzie
Faanono's 10 rebounds.
Erika
Ward did her best Padilla
impersonation with five assists
as Ventura moved to 14-1 at the
halfway mark of the
season. READ
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Brennan's
36 Points Leads VC Past Cypress
12-18-2009 There
were times during Friday's game
that it seemed the Pirates had
visions of sugar plums dancing
in their heads. But
sophomore Chanelle
Brennan was seeing a
career-high 36 points instead,
keying a pivotal 15-1 Ventura
run early in the second half,
scoring 13 of the points herself
on 6-6 shooting, leading VC to
an 83-74 victory over #17
Cypress College at the Athletic
Event Center on the opening day
of the We Play Hard Crossover
Classic. Freshman Gabrielle
Conn pulled down 10
rebounds, her first double-digit
rebound performance in 10 games,
as the Pirates bounced back from
their first defeat of the season
suffered last week. READ
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Lose-Win
Situation
by Joe
Curley from the Ventura County
Star
12-18-2009
It was, after all, just the
second time they had tasted
defeat in their 48 games at the
two-year level. So
the six sophomores on the
Ventura College women’s
basketball team can be excused
for that funny feeling Saturday
night in Pasadena. “We
all expect to win,” said
sophomore Erika Ward. “When we
lose like we did, it’s just
weird.” Top-ranked
Ventura’s 81-72 loss to No. 2
Pasadena City snapped a
school-record 55-game
regular-season winning streak
dating back to Jan. 5, 2008.
But after
winning their first 34 games
last season, only to be stopped
by the Lancers’ 14-of-21
3-point shooting in the state
Final Four, the Pirates were
thankful for the timing of the
lesson. READ
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Pasadena
Drops Ventura for Tournament
Title
12-12-2009 It's
been a long time, three weeks
shy of two calendar years, since
the last time the Pirates lost a
regular season game.
Following a 61-55 loss to
Foothill College on January 5,
2008, VC won a team-record 55 consecutive
regular-season games, until
Saturday when Ventura ran into a
red-hot Pasadena City College
team, dropping an 81-72 decision
in the finals of the Rose
City Classic in
Pasadena. READ
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Ventura
Beats West LA; Pasadena
Up Next
12-11-2009 It
took the Pirates' Kris
King less than a
minute to give VC the
lead in Friday night's
match-up against West
LA. That was all
Ventura needed in their
70-23 victory in the
semifinals of the Rose
City Classic at
Pasadena City
College. The win
propels #1 VC into the
tournament finals
against the
second-ranked host
school, the only team to
defeat VC in the past 47
games, Saturday evening
at 5:00 pm in Pasadena. READ
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Pirates
Defeat Wolverines in
Rose City Classic
12-10-2009
It wasn't the
pretties of games, but
it counts the same in
the end. The
Pirates overcame 20
turnovers in the game,
11 in the first half,
and a 33 percent (8-24)
shooting performance in
the opening period to
defeat #7 San Bernardino
Valley 57-48 in the
quarterfinal round of
the Rose
City Classic in
Pasadena Thursday
afternoon. Led by
redshirt-freshman Jordan
Clegg's performance
off the bench, four
points, five rebounds,
and four blocked shots,
VC was able to turn a
tie game early in the
second half into the
nine-point victory, it's
fourth win over a ranked
team this season. READ
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VC
Brings Home Gilcrest
Championship, 78-64
12-6-2009 So far
this season, the Pirates have
been very good on Sunday.
This week was no
exception. VC used precise
offensive execution to roll to a
47-26 halftime advantage and
never looked back in their 78-64
victory over Cerritos in the
title game of the Tom
Gilcrest Invitational at the
College of the Sequoias in
Visalia. Tournament MVP Chanelle
Brennan scored 17 of her
game-high 25 points in the first
half as the Pirates won the
state's most prestigious
tournament for the second season
in a row and seventh time in the
last 15 years. READ
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Pirates
Survive Letdown Against
San Jose
12-5-2009 It
something that every
team has to worry about
after a big win:
the letdown.
Following VC's big 62-57
win over Riverside on
Friday, the Pirates were
a prime candidate for
the letdown, and hit hit
them in a big way
against #20 San Jose in
the semifinals of the
Tom Gilcrest
Invitational at College
of the Sequoias in
Visalia Saturday
night. VC shot
just 6-25 in the first
half, and trailed 22-19
at intermission before
pulling out a 50-40
victory over the
Jaguars. The
Pirates advance to the
tournament championship
for the 13th time in 15
appearances against
Cerritos College at 4:00
pm Sunday. READ
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Late
First Half Rally Propels
VC to Semifinals
12-4-2009 Ventura
took a 23-21 deficit
with six minutes left in
the first half and
turned it into a 40-26
halftime advantage,
holding on for a 62-57
win over #15 Riverside
Community College Friday
evening in the
quarterfinals of the Tom
Gilcrest Invitational
at the College of the
Sequoias. Chanelle
Brennan led the way
with 19 points and six
rebounds while Amanda
Padilla continued
her steady play with 12
points and five
rebounds. The
Pirates advance to the
semifinals of the
Gilcrest tournament for
the 12th time in the
last 14 years and will
take on #20 San Jose
City College at 8:00 pm
on Saturday.
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VC
Advances in Gilcrest
With 70-44 Win
12-3-2009 Traditionally,
the Tom Gilcrest
Invitational Tournament
in the first week of
December is where the
cream rises to the top
in California Community
College Women's
Basketball. The
Pirates took a step
forward in that process
with their 70-44 victory
over Sacramento City
College in the
tournament's opening
round Thursday
night. Erika
Ward led Ventura
with 18 points, five
rebounds, four assists,
and four steals, while Chanelle
Brennan and Amanda
Padilla contributed
12 and 11 points,
respectively. VC
advances to play
Riverside in the
quarterfinals at 6:00 pm
Friday evening.
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Padilla
Selected as WSC Player
of the Week
12-2-2009 Ventura sophomore
Amanda
Padilla topped off
her MVP performance in
the VC-Kiwanis
Tournament of Champions
by being selected as the
Western State Conference
North Division Player of
the Week for the period
of Nov. 23-29,
2009. Amanda
scored 52 points in the
three tournament games
with 22 assists and six
steals. She was
17-28 from the floor,
including 6-11 from
behind the 3-point arc,
and 12-14 from the
charity stripe. In
the tournament
championship she had 24
points with six assists
and five rebounds to
lead the top-ranked
Pirates past #2 Mt. SAC
66-43. READ
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Padilla,
Pirates Defeat Mt. San
Antonio 66-43
11-29-2009
There
have been some great
point guards pass
through the team room
doors at the Athletic
Event Center. But
perhaps none of them
have ever had the
control over the Pirate
offense in the
half-court as sophomore Amanda
Padilla had Sunday
afternoon in VC's 66-43
win over Mt. San Antonio
in the finals of the
VC-Kiwanis
Tournament of Champions. Her
meticulous performance
of 24 points, six
assists, five rebounds,
and two steals led VC to
its second consecutive
tournament championship
this season and earned
her tournament MVP
honors.
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Brennan's
Career Night Propels VC
to Kiwanis Finals
11-28-2009 Some
nights are meant to be
remembered. Pirate
sophomore Chanelle
Brennan will
remember Saturday's
semifinal of the VC-Kiwanis
Tournament of Champions
for a long time, as she
had career highs in
points, 32, and
rebounds, 11, to go
along with three assists
and a blocked shot in
leading VC to a 71-53
victory over Santa
Monica. The win
propels the Pirates,
ranked #1 in the state
coaches poll, into
Sunday's final against
#2 Mt. San Antonio
College at 4:00 pm at
the Athletic Event
Center. The game
will be broadcast live
on the internet at www.HomeFieldSports.com.
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Brennan
and Padilla Lead Pirates
Past Laney
11-27-2009 Sophomore
Amanda
Padilla scored 18
points with seven
assists while sophomore Chanelle
Brennan continued
her consistently solid
play by netting a
team-high 19 points on
8-11 shooting as the
Pirates defeated a tough
Laney College team 75-60
in the opening round of
the VC-Kiwanis
Tournament of Champions
Friday night at the
Athletic Event
Center. Sophomore Kris
King also added 17
points and Gabrielle
Conn pulled down 11
rebounds for VC, who
will host Santa Monica
College at 7:00 pm on
Saturday in the
tournament semifinals.
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Star
VC
Hopes Own Tourney Can Be
a Springboard Like Last
Season by
Joe Curley from the
Ventura County
Star
11-27-2009
The
VC-Kiwanis
Tournament of Champions
seems set up for a
familiar Sunday
afternoon showdown this
weekend. Beginning
today,
the No. 1-ranked Ventura
College women’s
basketball team hosts
its annual eight-team tournament,
which includes No. 2
Mount San Antonio.
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Chanelle
Brennan Named WSC Player of
the Week
11-26-2009 Ventura
sophomore Chanelle
Brennan capped a
consistent three-game
performance at the Vaquero
Shootout in Glendale
with Player of the Week
honors for the North
Division of the Western
State Conference.
Brennan, who is
currently the VC career
leader in field goal
percentage, continued
her solid shooting into
the new season,
connecting on 19 of 33
field goal attempts
(57.6%), averaging 15.3
points and 5.3 rebounds
in the Pirates' first
three games. She
had games of 14, 16, and
16 points, respectively,
leading Ventura to its
second straight Vaquero
Shootout championship.
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King,
Brennan Lead Ventura to
Tournament Title
11-22-2009 Ventura
spent the first two days
of the season searching
for an identity.
On Sunday, the found one
in a big way with a
dominating 64-47 win
over fifth-ranked
Fullerton College in the
finals of the Vaquero
Shootout at Glendale
College. Kris
King scored 16
points on 8-9 shooting,
pulled down six
rebounds, and threw in
two blocks and two
steals to help lead the
Pirates to their second
consecutive Vaquero
Shootout
championship. Chanelle
Brennan also scored
16 points with six
boards for the
third-ranked Pirates.
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Ventura
Advances to Tournament
Final, 54-39
11-21-2009 The
Pirates continued to struggle
to find their identity
early in the season,
connecting on 36 percent
of their field goal
attempts, but a stingy
defense propelled them
to a 54-39 victory over
Santa Ana in the
semifinals of the Vaquero
Shootout
at
Glendale College
Saturday evening. Chanelle
Brennan continued
her record-setting
shooting, connecting on
seven of 12 shots,
leading the Pirates with
16 points. Gabrielle
Conn, in just her
second game as a Pirate,
collected the
seventh-highest rebound
total in team history,
18, to lead VC on the
boards. READ
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Pirates
Top LA Southwest in
Season Opener
11-20-2009
The
2008-09 season ended
with Erika
Ward and Chanelle
Brennan pacing the
offense in the Pirates'
state semifinal
loss. The 2009-10
began in similar
fashion, but with a
Ventura victory, as Ward
netted 23 points and
Brennan added 14 in VC's
season premier.
The Pirates were sharp
at times, and sloppy
during others, but they
were able to follow
their sophomore scorers
to a 64-44 win over LA
Southwest College in the
opening round of the Vaquero
Shootout at Glendale
College. READ
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2009-10 Pirate Opener
Set at Glendale
10-20-2009
The Pirate's 2009-10
season opener has been
set. They will
play Los Angeles
Southwest College at
3:00 pm in the first
round of the Vaquero
Shootout at Glendale
College on Thursday
November 20. The
last time the Pirates
opened their season in
Glendale, they lost to
LA Southwest, 55-48, in
2004. Tournament
brackets have also been
released for the
VC-Kiwanis Tournament of
Champions, with the
Pirates hosting Laney
College at 6:00 pm in
their home-opener on
Nov. 27. Ventura
will play Sacramento in
the first game of the
Tom Gilcrest
Invitational at the
College of the Sequoias
in Visalia on Dec. 3.
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Tournament Brackets
Ventura #2 in Nation on
WBCA Academic Honor Roll Top 20
7-12-2009
ATLANTA
- The Women's Basketball
Coaches Association
(WBCA) announced its
winners for the 2008-09
Academic Top 25 Team
Honor Roll. This award
honors teams throughout
the nation that carry
the highest grade point
averages (GPA) for the
entire season based on
the nomination submitted
by WBCA-member head
coaches. The
Ventura College Pirates
placed second on the
list in the Junior
College/Community
College category with a
3.352 overall GPA.
It is the sixth
consecutive year VC has
been honored nationally
on the WBCA's Academic
Honor Roll.
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Rio
Mesa JV and Varsity
Teams Sweep Golden State
Tournament
7-12-2009
Both
the Varsity and Jr.
Varsity teams from Rio
Mesa High School
defeated Ventura High in
the championship game of
their respective
divisions to sweep the
titles of the 2009
Golden State Tournament
held at Ventura
College.
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Pirates Earn 3.34 GPA for Spring
'09; 3.35 Team GPA for 2008-09
Year
6-9-2009
The Ventura College Pirates
women's basketball team
continued it's academic success
in the spring semester, posting
a team grade point average of
3.34. That combined with
the fall's 3.37 made VC's GPA
for the 2008-09 academic year
3.35, a notch above last year's
3.34 overall mark.
Freshman
Lacey Escamilla and
sophomore co-captains
Donielle Griggs and
Jessi Selleh led the way for
VC with perfect 4.0 averages.
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Heurung, Santizo Sign With CSU-Monterey Bay
5-29-2009
All-American point guard
Michelle Santizo and
All-Conference forward
Julie Heurung have become
the first two members of the
Pirate class of 2009 to commit
to their new school for the
2009-10 season. The pair
have each signed national
letters of intent to continue
their academic and basketball
careers at California State
University, Monterey Bay.
They will join former Pirates
Veronica Williams '07 and
Lindsay Trout '08 on the Otters'
roster. The head coach at
CSUMB is Rene Jemenez (VC class
of 2001) and she is assisted by
Tina Samaniego (VC '01).
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5-16-2009
Randi Hicks '08 Wins State
Javelin Title from the
Ventura County Star
Airing It Out
by Joe Curley from the
Ventura County
Star
5-14-2009
Randi Hicks has been a power
forward and an outside hitter.
She’s worked on her left-hand
jab for the ring and her Muay
Thai for the octagon.
Yet for a renaissance
athlete like Hicks, nothing has
felt quite like the Monday last
March when she first picked up
the javelin.
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