Most students enjoyed a winter break after the fall semester, but for the members of the City College Panthers’ basketball teams, there wasn’t much time to relax because both the men’s and women’s seasons were already under way.
The City College Panthers women’s team, led by Coach Devin Engebretsen, started out the 2012 season with losses in all of its first six contests.
After the losses, however, the team won four of its next five games, including two with Lassen College. The team’s average margin of win during these games was more than 12 points. This strong pace, however, didn’t continue as it went into league play.
Next, the Panthers went 0-8 in league games, bringing their overall record to 4-15. Although the team’s record shows a lopsided win-to-loss margin, 19-year-old criminal justice major Jacquelyn Conner-Hankins said she believes they have shown improvement.
“We have matured a lot as a team and have grown to play with one another,” said Conner-Hankins. “One step at a time is how we take it, and eventually it will fall through for us, and we will be the team we know we can be.”
So far this season, the team has struggled to put up points as well as maintain control of the ball, while scoring the least with 47.6 points per game and committing the most turnovers with 28.4 per game, more than any other team in the Big 8 conference, according to statistics on the California Community College Athletic Association’s website.
Samantha Gonzalez leads the team in points, averaging 7.9 per game.
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The Panthers went on a two-game winning streak to bring its record to 5-5 heading into its Big 8 league schedule. Since then it has gone 2-6 while falling into last place in the conference, with a record of 7-11.
Getting the victories has been tough for the team, some players said, but the team has maintained the belief that it has potential on the floor.
“We’re sort of struggling right now, but we still continue to try and get better every day,” said D.J. McGee, 22, social science major.
Ryan Mastella and Patrick Lowman have been the scoring leaders of the team thus far, averaging 16.7 and 14.8 per game, respectively according to the CCCAA Men’s Basketball website. Mastella and Lowman are fourth and tenth in that category in the Big 8, respectively. Lowman also leads the Panthers in rebounding, while pulling down almost six rebounds per contest.
Mastella, 19, undecided major, said he believes the team hasn’t been able to get off to a strong start in games and that could be a key issue.
“We have been inconsistent and let teams get out to big leads on us early, which is hard to come back from,” said Mastella. “We are just in the process of putting all the pieces together.”
