{"id":5275,"date":"2015-12-14T06:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2015-12-14T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:19:52","slug":"womens-basketball-take-third-at-pierce-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2015\/12\/14\/womens-basketball-take-third-at-pierce-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Basketball Take Third at Pierce Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shelby Kassuba had 27 points in the opening round win over Clackamas at the Pierce Tourney. photo by Rich Dworkis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a talent-rich tourney that featured several of the top NWAC teams, Bellevue College women’s basketball took third by going 2-1 over the weekend. On Friday December 11, Bellevue topped perennial powerhouse Clackamas (OR) by a score of 81-61. After jumping out to a four-point lead after one quarter, the Bulldogs stretched it out by outscoring the Cougars 25-10 in the second quarter. Shelby Kassuba had 27 points and was a dominating force inside. Kassuba was red hot shooting 13-for-21 from the field. Mikayla Jones had 22 points while Erin Hamilton continued her consistent play as one of Bellevue top freshmen by garnering 11 rebounds 6 assists and 14 points. Jones, Kassuba, and Montana Hagstrom all played the entire 40 minutes in the game. Hamilton played all but two minutes.<\/p>\n

On Saturday December 12, Jones, Hagstrom, and Hamilton again played nearly every minute as the Bulldogs fatigued and lost a high scoring game to Eastern Region power Columbia Basin College 80-59. The Bulldogs shot only 32% from the field as no one could get a hot hand. Jones led BC with 22 points but was 8-for-22 from the field, and could not get hot behind the three-point line, making only 2 of 9. Hamilton was Bellevue’s most consistent performer, scoring 14 points and pulling down 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Bellevue bounced back on Sunday December 13, pulling out a huge win over defending NWAC champion and Northern Region rival, Peninsula College, for third place by a score of 65-57. Jones regained her touch, sinking 10-of-18 from the field as she poured in 28 points. Hamilton, Kassuba, and Hagstrom all chipped in 11 points. The endurance factor also played a huge role in the final day of the tourney, as Jones, Hamilton, and Hagstrom again played the entire 40 minutes without a break.<\/p>\n

Bellevue is now 4-2 and gets a second crack at Columbia Basin as the Bulldogs travel to Albany, OR for the Linn-Benton Crossover Tourney on December 18. Bellevue and Columbia Basin square off at 4:00 p.m. in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shelby Kassuba had 27 points in the opening round win over Clackamas at the Pierce Tourney. photo by Rich Dworkis. In a talent-rich tourney that featured several of the top NWAC teams, Bellevue College women's basketball took third by going 2-1 over the weekend. On Friday December 11, Bellevue topped perennial powerhouse Clackamas (OR) by ...more about Women’s Basketball Take Third at Pierce Tourney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}