Detroit Shock Overseas Update
Published on November 29, 2005 under Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
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Anda Ramat Hasharon completed EuroCup Women Preliminary play with an unblemished 6-0 mark with a 60-43 win over Mersin Büyüksehir Belediye. Deanna Nolan scored a game-high 21 points, handed out four assists and picked up eight steals while Cheryl Ford grabbed a season-high 22 rebounds and scored 10 points for Anda.
Former Sacramento, Minnesota, Cleveland and Seattle forward Adia Barnes scored 15 points and grabbed four rebounds for Mersin, and Chicago's Ashley Robinson grabbed a team-high 12 boards.
Anda will be the number one seed when EuroCup Women Sixteenth-Finals play begins in two weeks. There were three other undefeated teams in Preliminary Round competition, but Anda had the highest Goal Average (points scored divided by points allowed) of the lot.
Out of the 27 teams in the Preliminary Round, the two best teams in each of the 12 Groups qualifies for the Sixteenth-Finals, along with the eight best third-place teams. Anda begins a two-game, home-road series with BSE ESMA Budapest on Thursday, December 8 with game two scheduled for Wednesday, December 14. The team with the better aggregate score advances to the Eighth-Finals.
Final EuroCup Women Group G Standings
Team W L
Anda Ramat Hasharon 6 0
Mersin Büyüksehir Belediye 4 2
WBC Kimico Struga 2 4
KK Jedinstvo 0 6
Ford and Nolan step back on to the court for Israeli League competition on November 28 vs. winless Maccabi Ashdod (0-4).
Israeli League D1 Standings
Team W L
Anda Ramat Hasharon 4 0
Raanana Hertzliya 4 1
Bnei Yehuda 3 1
Happoel Haifa/Motzkin 3 1
Maccabi Ramat Hen 3 2
Hapoel Tel Aviv 2 2
Elizur Belisima Holon 1 4
Maccabi Ashdod 0 4
Maccabi Tel Kabir 0 5
Elizur Ramla 0 0
Coconuda Maddaloni defeated BG Dorsten, 72-62, on November 23 behind 15 points, seven rebounds and four steals from Plennete Pierson. Their 4-2 record was good enough for second place in Group L Preliminary Round competition, allowing Coconuda to advance to the Sixteenth-Finals.
Out of the 27 teams in the Preliminary Round, the two best teams in each of the 12 Groups qualifies for the Sixteenth-Finals, along with the eight best third-place teams. Coconuda is seeded 18th out of the 32 teams remaining and will begin a two-game, home-road series with Germany's TSV 1880 Wasserburg on Thursday, December 8. The team with the better aggregate score advances to the Eighth-Finals.
Former Houston and Detroit forward Wanda Guyton, who recently celebrated her 40th birthday, is a key member of TSV 1880 Wasserburg's squad averaging 9.7 points and a EuroCup-best 16.3 rebounds per game during the Preliminary Round.
Final EuroCup Women Group L Standings
Team W L
Halcon Avenida Salamanca 5 1
Coconuda Maddaloni 4 2
Stade Clermontois Auvergne Basket 63 3 3
BG Dorsten 0 6
Coconuda Maddaloni won its fourth game in a row, an is now in a four-way tie for third place in the Italian League following a 77-59 win over Lenzi Profexional Bolzano (1-9). Pierson scored a game-high 20 points, and grabbed eight rebounds in the win. Former Indiana center Jacqueline Moore scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss while former Fever forward Leigh Aziz added seven points and nine rebounds.
Pierson's next Italian League game is scheduled for Sunday, December 4 against TermoCarispe La Spexia (5-5).
Italian League Standings
Team W L
Phard Napoli 8 2
Pool Comense 8 2
Coconuda Maddaloni 7 3
Banco di Sicilia Ribera 7 3
Germano Zama Faenza 7 3
Acer Priolo 7 3
Stem Marine Parma 6 4
TermoCarispe La Spezia 5 5
Gescom Viterbo 5 5
Famila Schio 5 5
Umana Venezia 5 5
Pasta Ambra Taranto 5 5
Acetum Cavezzo 3 7
Terra Sarda Alghero 1 9
Lenzi Profexional Bolzano 1 9
Centro S.Palladio Vicenza 0 10
Ruth Riley and Yaya Maria Porta XI (6-3) find themselves in a three-way tie for third in Spanish League competition after a 63-50 win over Real Club Celta Vigourban. Riley scored nine points and grabbed six rebounds in the win - the fourth in a row for Yaya Maria Porta XI. Former Houston forward Catarina Pollini scored two points and grabbed three rebounds in the win, while former Mystics forward Leila Sobral scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds for Real Club Celta Vigourban in the loss.
Riley's next Spanish League game is Sunday, December 4 vs. Cajacanarias (4-5).
Spanish League Standings
Team W L
Ros Casares Valencia 8 1
Hondarribia - Irun 7 2
Acis Incosa Leon 6 3
Universitat De Barcelona - FCB 6 3
Perfumerias Avenida 6 3
Yaya Maria Porta XI 6 3
Arranz - Jopisa Burgos 5 4
EBE Promociones-PDV Sta. Eulali 5 4
USP CEU - Adecco Estudiantes 4 5
Cajacanarias 4 5
Real Club Celta Vigourban 3 6
Universitario De Ferrol 1 8
Cadi La Seu 1 8
Mann Fliter Zaragoza 1 8
Kara Braxton and TS Wis"a Can-Pack Kraków fell to 1-4 and fifth place in Group C in EuroLeague Women Qualification Round competition with a 68-58 loss to Dynamo Moscow (4-1). Braxton paced Wis"a Can-Pack with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Phoenix's Anna DeForge added 15 points, four rebounds and three assists.
Mercury center Kamila Vodichkova scored eight points and seven rebounds for Dynamo, and Charlotte's Tammy Sutton-Brown chipped in with 11 points, and six boards as well.
Wis"a Can-Pack's next EuroLeague match is Thursday, December 1 vs. fourth-place Phard Naopli (2-3).
Eurloeague Women Group C Standings
Team W L
US Valenciennes Olympic 4 1
Lietuvos Telekomas Vilnius 4 1
Dynamo Moscow 4 1
Phard Napoli 2 3
Wis"a Can-Pack Krakow 1 4
K Cero ICP Kosice 0 5
Wis"a Can-Pack remained undefeated in Polish league play with an 85-52 win over second-place CCC Polkowice. Braxton scored 29 points, grabbed seven rebounds and picked up five steals in the win, while DeForge added 12 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Wis"a Can-Pack's next Polish League game is scheduled for Sunday, December 4 against Lotos Gdynia (6-2).
Polish League Standings
Team W L
TS Wis"a Can-Pack Kraków 8 0
CCC Polkowice 6 2
Lotos Gdynia 6 2
PZU Polfa Pabianice 6 2
AZS PWSZ Sowood Gorzów Wlkp. 5 3
Azoty-Meblotap Che"m 3 5
AZS Poznañ 2 6
Cukierki Odra Brzeg 2 6
壗dzki Klub Sportowy Siemens AGD 1 7
Kolegium Karkonoskie AZS Jelenia Góra 1 7
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