Prep Capsules
Posted on February 15, 2004
LIVONIA - The North Central Lady Hurricanes cliched a share of the District 7-2A basketball title in a 62-19 rout over Livonia.
Donisha Duriusseau and, Brittany Butler each scored 18 points in the win.
The Lady Hurricanes (25-7, 12-1) will play Pointe Coupee Central 6 p.m. Monday at Opelousas Catholic to determine the top seed from the district heading into the playoffs.
North Central jumped out to an 18-3 first quarter lead and then outscored Livonia 23-8 in the second period.
The Lady Hurricanes held a 57-17 advantage into the game's final period.
Al Boudreaux
Posted on February 17, 2004
Photo by David Gremillion
North Central's Alicia Edwards gets fouled by Point Coupe Central defenders during Monday night's game played at Opelousas Catholic.The North Central Lady Hurricanes secured a 50-47 victory over Jenerette High School when Desirea Offord stole an in bounds pass with 14 seconds left on the clock.
Offord's interception of the Jeanerette pass allowed the Lady Hurricanes of North Central to advance to the playoffs as the number one girls seed from District 6-2A.
The Lady Hurricanes were paced on the score board, in the first quarter of play by Donisha Duruisseau who scored 6 points. Joyanne Wills led the Lady Tigers of Jeanerette in scoring in the first quarter. At the end of one quarter of play Jeanerette held a 14-9 lead over North Central.
The Lady Hurricanes went to a full court press in the second quarter and played stifling defense throughout the quarter. North Central held Jenerette to only 7 points in the second quarter. The Lady Hurricanes blistered Jenerette scoring 19 points in the second quarter.
Trailing 16-9, Donisha Duruisseau jump started the Lady Hurricanes' offense hitting a 3 pointer. Deseria Offord picked up a bucket for North Central and a 2 pointer by Brittany Butler tied the game up with 6:10 remaining in the second quarter. With the score tied at 16-16, North Central outscored Jeanerette 12-5 over the final 4:52 of the first half to take a 28-21 lead into the locker room at half time. North Central's scoring outburst included two 3-pointers by Brittany Butler, a steal and a lay up by Offord and another steal and this time a lay up by Butler.
Butler's scoring outburst of 11 points in the second quarter allowed her to lead North Central in scoring with 11 points for the quarter and 28 of her game high point total for the evening.
The third and fourth quarters saw the Jeanerette Lady Tigers outscore North Central 13-11 in both quarters. However, another six points by Butler in the third quarter and 8 points in the fourth quarter was enough to help North Central improve their overall season record to 27-20 and their district record to 13-1.
According to North Central head coach, Vanessa Taylor, "We went to a different press than they were not expecting and it really disrupted their offensive game. Our press allowed us to get a lot of turnovers and score a lot in the second quarter. I wanted to stay in the press a little longer but a couple of our girls got into foul trouble and we had to pull back into our half court defense."
With the win, the Lady Hurricanes host Episcopal High School of Baton Rouge Thursday night at 7 p.m. in Lebeau.
au for third time
Player of the week
Posted on February 23, 2004
By Tom Dodge
tdodge@dailyworld.com
North Central head coach Butch Fontenot has seen plenty of talent wear the Hurricane basketball uniform over the years.
This week, sophomore Errick Coleman caught his coach's attention as he helped North Central capture second place in District 7-2A and earn a berth in the playoffs.
Coleman scored 27 points in a 67-49 non-district win over Eunice. Coleman upped his point total to 29 points Friday night to help the Hurricanes grab a 75-65 district win over Port Barre.
For his efforts, Coleman was selected the Daily World Player of the Week for Feb. 15-21.
Other top performances of the week included:
- Acadiana Prep's Brian Stelly poured in 41 of the Eagles' 56 points against Westminster. Crusader Randall Bulliard scored 32 of WCA's 51 points.
- Quinten Richard scored 55 points across a three game span, including two against Pointe Coupee Central.
- In the one-sided 82-36 loss to District 7-2A champion Jeanerette, Richard scored 17 points. In the Vikings' 43-42 heartbreaker loss to PCC, Richard contributed 16 points.
Saturday in the tiebreaker against Pointe Coupee, Richard poured in 22 points for the win.
- In the Red Devils' 73-65 loss to Pointe Coupee Central, Chris Keys pushed in 23 points.
- In the loss to North Central, Keys scored 21 points.
- Sacred Heart's Trey Fuselier scored 23 points in the Trojans' 73-66 loss to Iota.
- Donisha Durisseau poured in 23 points to lift North Central to a 51-47 win over Episcopal of Baton Rouge in the opening round of the Class 2A playoffs.
- Trionne Senegal pushed in 20 points to help the Opelousas Lady Tigers grab a 39-35 win over Ben Franklin in the opening round of the Class 4A playoffs.