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SOUTHWEST BASKETBALL TEAMS OPEN SEASON WITH
ALUMNI GAME
The Southwest men’s and women’s
basketball teams will open the 2004-2005 season against the Saluqi Alumni
on Friday, October 29 in the Verties Sails Gymnasium on the Union Avenue
Campus. The women’s game will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the men’s game
at 8 p.m. The games will feature this year’s squads against teams
composed of former Saluqis and Lady Saluqis. Tickets are $5 for adults
(including students) and $2 for children under 12.
“We’re using these games as a fundraiser for
the Verties Sails Gymnasium Renovation project,” said Southwest head men’s
basketball coach and athletic director Verties Sails, Jr. “We’d like to
see all alumni and friends at the games to not only help us raise funds
for our gym renovation, but also see (what should be) two outstanding
basketball games.”
Coaching the Saluqi alumni will be Curtis
Hollowell, who played for the Saluqis from 1981-1983 and is the school’s
all-time assists leader, and McKinley Singleton, a two-time West Division
Player of the Year (1980 and 1981) who was inducted into the Saluqis Hall
of Fame in 2003. Top players for the men’s alumni will be John Grice, a
two-time All-American (1998 and 1999) for the Saluqis who recently played
with the San Antonio Spurs Summer League team, Lorico Duncan (first team
All-American in1998), and Marlon Walls (TJCCAA Player of the Year in
2001).
The women’s alumni team, coached by 2003 Saluqis Hall of Fame inductee
Carolyn Blair, will feature four former junior college
All-Americans: Priscilla Gary, the first Lady Saluqis’ All-American in
1981 and who was inducted into the Saluqis Hall of Fame in 2003, Glynetha
Davis (second team All-American in 1987), Myquita Mackey (first team
All-American in 1999), and Amie Williams (first team All-American in
2001).
The Saluqis and Lady Saluqis open the 2004-2005 regular season on Monday,
November 1 against Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
The first home games for Southwest will be on Saturday, November 6 at the
Verties Sails Gymnasium when the Lady Saluqis will host Carl Albert State
College at 5 p.m., followed by the men’s game against Kennedy-King College
at 7:30 p.m. |
