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Women's Basketball Finishes Third at Nationals


The Lady Tribunes advanced to the national tournament hosted by Hagerstown Community College. The five day tournament began on Wednesday, March 19th. The top four seeds were given byes so MCC had to wait to see who they would play on Thursday, March 20th. Their first game ended up being against Northwest Shoals Community College. MCC defeated them handily 78-55. Nastassia Boucicault led the Lady Tribunes in scoring with 16 points while Melissa Gathers led the team in rebounds with 11. This win advanced them to the semi final game where they played Illinois Central College. Tara Walker led the team in scoring with 16 points and Janitha Knight led the team in rebounds with 10. Unfortunately it didn't put MCC ahead of ICC. ICC defeated MCC 78-60 which knocked the Lady Tribunes out of the running for the national championship. Their last game was against Kirkwood Community College and they defeated them 74-56 which put them at 3rd place finish. Once again Gathers led the team in scoring with 20 points and Knight led the team in rebounds with 15. MCC finished the season 27-4 and third in the country. Gathers and Walker were named to the All-Tounament Team.

Robyn Malloy
Athletics
03/26/2003