Second-Place Broward Visits Titan Women on Tuesday

Another day another tough game. Such is life in the FCSAA Southern Conference for the defending champion Eastern Florida State College women.

Eastern Florida, 6-0 in the conference and 13-7 overall, hosts its closest pursuer Broward College (5-1, 13-5) at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Titan Field House on the Melbourne Campus.

Admission is free.

Eastern Florida has won six straight games, all in the conference, while Broward has reeled off three straight since losing 65-62 at home to Eastern Florida on Jan. 12.

Broward, under second-year coach M.J. Baker, has done an about-face since finishing 2-12 in the conference and 5-21 overall last season.

"Obviously Coach Baker has her team playing very well," said Eastern Florida head coach Jim Grimes.

"The second time around the conference schedule there are no secrets. Everybody knows what everybody has. We obviously will need to compete and execute for all 40 minutes as we learned in our previous game."

Eastern Florida will once again look to sophomores and leading scorers Paola Vasquez, Nene Johnson, Crystal Townsend and Emma Grimes to set the pace. Also freshmen Trudy Walker, Dysheka Price, Kienya Jones, Chardonay Aldrich, Zoi Thompson and Bria McKinney, and sophomores Chelsea Long and Brittany Wells are contributing.

Vasquez is averaging 14.7 points per game, Johnson 14.3, Townsend 11 and Grimes 9.1.

Walker leads in rebounding at 8.7 per game followed by Townsend at 8.3 and Jones at six. Johnson is averaging 5.2 assists per game and Vasquez 1.8 steals.

Price scored a career-high 20 points against Indian River State on Saturday.

Vasquez is ranked eighth nationally in three-pointers with 64. Grimes has made 49 three-pointers. Eastern Florida is fourth nationally in three-pointers with 9.5 per game.