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Campus Review
January 23, 2012
Campus Review
January 23, 2012
Editor:
John Shiffert
Writers:
Erin Fender
Ciji Fox
Lauren Graves
Layout:
Lauren Graves
Photography: Erin Fender
Graphic Design: Lauren Graves
Presto! Clayton State Athletics has a New Website
by John Shiffert, University Relations
By Tuning Up Flagler and Armstrong
Lakers Tune Up for this Week’s Lander/Aiken Games
The Clayton State Laker women’s basket-
ball team scored the first 16 points of the
game on Saturday and never looked back
as the Lakers rolled to an impressive 93-
48 victory at Armstrong Atlantic in Peach
Belt Conference action.
The victory is the 16th straight for
Clayton State, which is currently ranked
second (with a bullet) in Division II. The
Lakers are now 18-1 overall and 8-0 in the
Peach Belt. And now comes the real
test… Lander (Wednesday) and USC
Aiken (Saturday), back-to-back, at the
Athletics & Fitness Center
The win came two days after the Lakers
blitzed Flagler, winning 80-44 after being
tied at 30 at the half. Do the math, in the
last three quarters of basketball (60 min-
utes) Clayton State has outscored the
opposition, 143-62.
“We really executed well, and played with
a lot of energy and focus today,” said
Clayton State head coach Dennis Cox
after the Armstrong game. “We really
clicked on all cylinders offensively and it
was a real good effort.”
Thus, the Lakers come into the most
important week of the season thus far on a
roll. Clayton State will start this week by
hosting arguably the second-best Division
II team from 2010/2011, the Lander
Bearcats. Laker fans will recall last year’s
famous #1 vs. #2 game wherein Clayton
State edged the then-top ranked Bearcats
83-81 on a last second basket in the lane
by Tanisha Woodward. The next
Laker/Bearcat meeting came in the
NCAA regional finals, and produced a
somewhat different scenario, a dominat-
ing 76-60 Clayton State win. Thus, it can
be assumed that Lander, currently the first
place team in the East Division of the
Peach Belt, will come loaded for bearcat
(or something like that) on Wednesday,
Jan. 25. Game time is 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, the Lakers will “welcome” (for
want of a better term) USC Aiken to the
Athletics & Fitness Center for a 3:30 p.m.
game (note the earlier than typical start
time.) Although the Pacers were recently
beaten by UNC Pembroke, they have been
ranked as high as 11th nationally this sea-
son, and are the last team to defeat the
Lakers, in the one-point overtime decision
on their own floor in last year’s Peach
Belt tournament.
Clayton State had a tremendous offensive
output against Armstrong; the most points
scored in a game this season for the
Lakers, and the most in a game since scor-
ing 97 points last season against Barton in
the second round of the NCAADivision II
National Tournament.
“We got off to a real good start, and that’s
important on the road,” Cox said. “We just
played two real good halves – without a
doubt our best two halves offensively so
far this season.”
Woodard paced a balanced Laker scoring
attack with 16 points, nine rebounds and
six steals, while Keona Dixon scored 15
points off the bench. Shacamra Jackson
and Brittany Hall each scored 13 points,
while Hall also dished out six assists. As
an added attraction to the upcoming
Lander game, Hall is only 10 points shy of
becoming the eighth player in Laker
women’s basketball history to reach 1,000
career points.
As easy as saying, “presto!” the Clayton State
University Athletic Department, home of the
2011 NCAA Division II women’s basketball
national champions, has a new website that’s
as quick as the Lakers’ full court pressure.
That’s presto, as in Presto Sports in
Rockville, Md., which designed the new
site which will allow Clayton State
Athletics to take fuller advantage of social
media and video in promoting the Lakers.
The new Athletics web page is still linked
to the Clayton State University home page
at www.clayton.edu, however, there’s a
new URL for Laker Athletics;
http://www.claytonstatesports.com. That’s
right, the Lakers are now a Dot Com.
The move to a new website is in keeping
with the rest of the Peach Belt Conference
– all of the other Peach Belt members
(except one) have Presto Sports websites
and, in general, many Division II athletic
programs are moving to having their web-
sites created by outside vendors like
Presto. As a result, all of the Peach Belt
sites (and the conference website) are
Website, cont’d., p. 14
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