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 Sarah-Jo Lawrence and the No. 13/12 Colonials' senior class seeks their first Atlantic 10 Championship this weekend. |
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No. 13/12 GW Guns for Fifth A-10 Championship Title
March 7, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA, PA - The No. 13/12 George Washington women's basketball team travels to Philadelphia, PA, and Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse this weekend for the 2008 Atlantic 10 Championship. The second-seeded Colonials face No. 10-seed Rhode Island in a quarterfinal game Saturday at 4:00 pm.
No. 13/12 GW (24-5) makes its 26th consecutive appearance in the A-10 Championship and seeks its fifth title overall and first since 2003. The Colonials are 31-21 all-time in their 25 trips to the A-10 tournament, including a 6-4 mark as the No. 2 seed.
GW won its last four regular-season games to earn a share of its seventh consecutive A-10 title along with Temple, which earned the tournament's top seed by virtue of its head-to-head victory against GW. The Colonials led the conference in both scoring offense (67.2 ppg) and scoring defense (52.8) in going 12-2 in league play.
The Colonials are led by a quartet of All-Atlantic 10 selections, highlighted by conference Player of the Year and All-America candidate Kimberly Beck. The fifth player in program history to receive the league's top honor, Beck led the A-10 in assists for the fourth straight season to become just the 11th player in NCAA Division I history to accomplish the feat. Beck is joined in the backcourt by A-10 Student-Athlete of the Year and three-time All-Conference honoree Sarah-Jo Lawrence.
Two-time first team All-Atlantic 10 selection Jessica Adair is the centerpiece of the Colonials' frontcourt. GW's leading scorer at 15.6 points per game, Adair enters the A-10 Championship 17 points shy of becoming the program's 25th career 1,000-point scorer and third player to reach the mark this season. Adair is joined on the front line by two-time A-10 All-Defensive Team forward Whitney Allen, who recorded back-to-back double-doubles to finish the regular season, and leading rebounder Antelia Parrish.
Sunday's semifinal contests will be televised live on CSTV at 12:00 and 2:30 pm, while Monday's championship game will air on ESPN2 at 5:00 pm.
All tournament games, except for Monday's title tilt, can be viewed via live video streaming on www.Atlantic10.org or www.GWsports.com. Fans can subsribe beginning Thursday, March 6, for the cost of $9.95 per game. Current annual subscribers to CSTV XXL will be able to access all ten games as part of their subscription. However, monthly subscribers will have to purchase the contests via pay-per-view.
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