Former La Salle stars Put Columbia Blue One Up in Philly Summer League Finals (Women's Hoops Guru)

Former La Salle stars Put Columbia Blue One Up in Philly Summer League Finals

By Mel Greenberg

PHILADELPHIA - We didn't get there, but to avoid this news being buried by the size of the next post, former La Salle stars Crista Ricketts scored 23 points and Davineia Payne added 13, while recently-graduated West Chester star Dana Weems scored 18 to give Columbia Bue a 75-68 win over White in the first of the best-of-three Dept. of Recreation NCAA Women's Summer League finals Wednesday night at Torresdale Boys Club in Northeast Philadelphia.

St. Joseph's in-coming junior Brittany Ford scored 21 for White, which forced a playoff for the top seed at the end of the regular season Cheyney's Angel Henderson added 13 points, and La Salle's Ashley Gale scored 12 points.

The teams will resume Monday night at the same site, Linden & Jackson Sts., near the I-95 Academy Road exit. A third, if necessary game, will be played on Wednesday.

-- Mel

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Posted by Mel Greenberg on August 7, 2008 4:00 AM | Permalink

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Mel Greenberg covers college and professional women’s basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has worked for 38 years. Greenberg pioneered national coverage of the game, including the original Top 25 women's college poll. His knowledge has earned him nicknames such as "The Guru" and "The Godfather," as well as induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Jonathan Tannenwald is a producer with Philly.com. In addition to covering the local college scene, he spent two years as the Washington Mystics beat writer for Women's Hoops Guru. He also writes his own blog, Soft Pretzel Logic, which covers men's college basketball, football, and a variety of other sports.

Kathleen Radebaugh is a recent graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She was the women's basketball beat writer for the school's newspaper, The Hawk, and became the sports editor her sophomore year. She was also a four-year member of the varsity crew team.

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-- Erin Semagin Damio covers the University of Connecticut and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun for the blog, and contributes other features. The Storrs, Conn., native also attends Northeastern University, where she is a coxswain on the varsity crew team.

-- Acacia O'Connor is based in Washington, D.C., where she reports on the Mystics and the college basketball scene in the nation's capital. A graduate of Vassar college, she played on the varsity women's basketball team and was editor of the student newspaper.

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