Duke-bound guard Abby Waner, a former ThunderRidge High School star, contributed six points, five assists and four rebounds Saturday as the U.S. women’s under-19 basketball team stayed unbeaten at the world championship tournament in Tunis, Tunisia, with a 124-37 rout of Congo.
Waner played 20 minutes and shot 2-for-5 from 3-point range, part of the Americans’ record- setting barrage from beyond the arc. They were 15-of-25 overall on 3-pointers.
Stanford’s Candice Wiggins tied a U.S. record with 28 points in 19 minutes, including a record seven 3-pointers. The U.S. point total set a team record as well.
The Americans (2-0) led 62-22 at halftime. They play Tuesday against Puerto Rico (1-1).
Watts 12th at Westfield
Andrea Watts of Lone Tree shot a 9-over-par 80 in the final round of the Westfield Junior PGA Championship at Westfield Group Country Club in Ohio, finishing in a tie for 12th.
Watts was 12 strokes over par for the four rounds and 15 shots behind the champion, Stephanie Kono of Honolulu.
Grand Canyon coach
moving to CSU-Pueblo
Kip Drown, head coach at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, becomes coach of the Colorado State-Pueblo women’s basketball team Monday.
Drown replaces Misty Murphy, who resigned and took an assistant coaching job at Rice.
Drown turned around the Grand Canyon program in four years with the Antelopes, guiding a team that won only four games the season before he arrived to the NCAA Division II West Regional in 2004.
Before coaching at Grand Canyon, Drown coached seven years at Georgia Southwestern State, an NAIA school, where he compiled a 151-71 record.
Adams State volleyball
program adds players
Three Coloradans and a player from Sierra Vista, Ariz., have accepted scholarship offers to play volleyball at Adams State.
New Grizzlies coach Lindy Mortensen signed Tagen Bierly, a 5-foot-7 setter from Cheyenne Mountain High School; Mandi Grasser, a 5-10 outside hitter from Monarch; Michelle Maddox, a 5-7 outside hitter from Del Norte; and Arizonan Brittany Whiteley, a 6-2 middle blocker.
Bierly was her team’s most valuable player and the MVP of Overland’s tournament. Grasser led the Coyotes to a district title and was named to the all-conference first team. Maddox was on the all-conference second team, and twice finished second at the state track meet in the shot put.
Whiteley played one year at Blinn College in Texas, helping her team go 35-7 with a berth in the NJCAA Tournament.
