Box Score
POMONA, Calif. - Reyana Colson led the Broncos with 22 points, including No. 1,500 of her career, as the Cal Poly Pomona women's basketball team knocked off Cal State San Bernardino Tuesday, 81-72, to take sole possession of second place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
The Broncos improve to 11-2 overall and 8-1 in CCAA play, while the loss drops the Coyotes to 11-2 overall and 7-2 through league action.
Four CPP players racked up double figures, with
Megan Ford,
Sarah Semenero and La'kenya Simon West joining Colson in that category with 15, 11 and 10 respectively. Pacing the visiting CSUSB squad was Eisha Sheppard with 22 points to match her matchup counterpart, Colson.
The Broncos went 44.1 percent from the field and shot even better (52.9) from three-point range while going 9-for-17 beyond the arc. Colson, Semenero, Simon West and #J.J. Judge# netted two three-pointers each.
CSUSB jumped out to a 7-0 lead to start the contest and the visitors held their advantage until the midway point of the half, when Colson dropped in a layup to even the score at 15-15. Moments before that, the senior guard from Compton, Calif., sunk a three-pointer to land her exactly at 1,500 points for her remarkable Bronco career.
A Colson layup at the 8:13 mark gave CPP its first lead of the contest and the hosts would build on that margin for the remainder of the period. The Broncos pushed it as high as nine points after free throws from Ford but a late CSUSB run cut the lead to 35-33 at halftime in favor of CPP.
The Broncos performed admirably at the strike, going 20-for-27 (74.1 percent), as compared to a 9-for-15 outing for the Coyotes. Ford knocked down seven, Colson added six and
Rosslyn Beard went a perfect 6-for-6.
CSUSB took a 39-35 lead after starting the second half with a 6-0 run, which was capped off by a jumper from Sheppard. The Coyotes' advantage held up until the 7:57 mark, when
Charlene Popoff dropped in a layup to tie the game, 57-57. That started a 12-0 spurt for CPP, with four different Bronco player scoring and three-pointers from Semenero and Simon West included.
The Broncos maintained that lead for much of the remainder, thanks in part to nine-straight conversions at the free throw line between the 5:58 and 0:48 marks.
Simon West knocked home the game's final bucket, bringing the score to 81-72. CPP ended up with a 40-34 rebounding edge, with Ford collecting nine while Semenero and Beard set new career highs with nine and eight respectively.
Up next, CPP travels to play Cal State East Bay Thursday before returning to Southern California for a Saturday contest at UC San Diego.
