Lady Bears to Play Final Exhibition Game
11/11/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Nov. 11, 2001
Waco, Texas -
Baylor vs. Aabyhoej (Denmark)
Monday, Nov. 12 - 7:00 p.m.
Ferrell Center - Waco, Texas
The Lady Bears will play the second of two exhibition games when they host Aabyhoej (Denmark) on Monday, Nov. 12 at 7:00 p.m.
THE TEAMS...
Baylor comes into the season ranked No. 14 by the Associated Press and No. 16 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll ... The Lady Bears will be led by four seniors: Nicole Collins, Danielle Crockrom, Sheila Lambert and Brooke McCormack ... Four starters return off last season's 21-9 team which was selected for the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the program's history ... Returning starters include: Collins, a 5-3 point guard, Crockrom, a 6-3 All-American forward, Lambert, a 5-7 All-American guard, and Chanelle Fox, a 5-11 sophomore forward ... Crockrom and Lambert have been named preseason first-team All-Big 12 by both the Big 12 coaches and media ... In addition, they have been named to several preseason all-America teams and both are on the Naismith Award (top collegiate players) watch list.
The Aabyhoej Basketball Club, based out of Arhus, Denmark, comes to the Ferrell Center for their last stop on their tour through Texas ... The Aabyhoej squad won the Danish National Championship in 2001 and has been in the finals in the last six seasons ... The Danish team has picked up two American players, former Louisiana Techster Kendra Neal ('92-96) and Fresno State's Amanda Baker ... Neal is averaging 23.8 points to lead the team and Baker ranks third in scoring at 10.7 a game.... Aabyhoej's players range in age from 18-25 ... They have gone winless so far in the tour losing to: UT-Arlington (86-49), TCU (102-50), SMU (93-88), Texas A&M (72-53), UT-San Antonio (70-58), Texas (80-67), Rice (Sunday, Nov. 11).
LAST TIME OUT...
The Lady Bears posted an 85-52 victory over the Houston Jaguars in an exhibition game last Thursday ... Senior guard Sheila Lambert (Seattle, Wash./Grayson CC) led all scorers with 18 points, she also dished out nine assists ... Freshman post Steffanie Blackmon (Dallas/Rowlett HS) was impressive with nine points and nine rebounds in just 16 minutes of play ... Another freshman post, Melanie Hamerly (Orange/Little Cypress-Mauriceville HS), had six points and six boards in her nine minutes of action.
