Players needed at Oregon State

Last year the Beavers were 11-20 with a win in the Pac 10 tournament. However that was helped immensely by their very weak non conference schedule where they went
9-4. In Pac 10 play the Beavers were 2-16.

LOSSES:

Oh boy, well the losses are well documented but here goes. Last year Oregon State had 14 players.

Lost to graduation: 3
Choose not to return: 9

No use detailing all this, their coach and AD and the lack of oversight and caring cost them 9 players. Oregon State will have a very hard time winning a game this season due to the unspeakable situation that has existed in Corvallis. So we speak of it no more.

ADDITIONS:

Starting with the new Head Coach, Scott Rueck. Rueck came from Division III George Fox University just south of Portland where he won 77% of his games over 14 seasons. He has been the DIII Western Regional Coach of the year the past 3 years and was the National Coach of the year this past season when George Fox won the DIII National Championship.

Mark Campbell was an Assistant and St Mary’s for the Men’s team, and was the first Assistant hired. Campbell also coached men at Pepperdine. You know that saying behind every great Man there is a great Woman, well Campbell is married to one of the greatest Oregon High School players ever, Ashley Campbell (formally Smith). Ashley was an All American at Oregon City High School, Lindsey Yamasaki’s High School, and became at All American at Vanderbilt.

Eric Ely is one of two Assistants thus far, as the Beavers were left without a Staff. Ely has been a Women’s Basketball Assistant for 12 seasons with two stints at Oral Roberts and another at Missouri.

Oregon State has four scholarship players who are new on campus to go with the two who returned. I’ll review them below.

The Beavers plan to add 4-6 walkons, from their try outs. Four have been added thus far. While they will have to play, it would be hard to expect much from them except desire.

NON CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Well it’s not the worst in the league. Highlights are Long Beach State, Hawaii and Pepperdine. However the big one could be Rutgers in Las Vegas, but that one is iffy in the Lady Rebel Round Up. The other seven would be gimmes for the other Pac 10 teams.

BY POSITION:

POSTS:

El Sara Greer is a 6-2 Sr who averaged 4.4 points and 6.6 rebounds while playing 26 minutes per game. Greer is a strong rebounder but hasn’t been too much of a scorer in the past.

POWER FORWARDS:

Angela Misa is a 6-1 Soph who only played 4 minutes a game last year, playing in all but 4 games. Ironically Misa was the first player I heard about leaving but she ended up staying.

WINGS:

Anna Marchbanks is a 5-11 Jr and a JC transfer, who averaged 20 points and 9 rebounds this past season at her JC.

Alyssa Martin is a 6-0 recruit from the Portland area. Martin was first team all Portland Metro and honorable mention All State. Martin averaged 15 points and shot 41% from three in High School last season.

Classye James is a 5-8 recruit from Mitty High School. She averaged 7 points for Mitty, and is a strong defensive player who had 3 steals a game last year.

Jenna Dixon is one of the four Walkons. She played High School in Portland and was 2nd team all Metro area two years ago.

Katie Schrock was honorable mention All State last season at Corvallis High School.

POINT GUARDS:

Alexis Bostic is a Frosh recruit from Oakland, at 5-9.

Sage Idendi actually was an All American at George Fox with Coach Rueck two years ago and transferred to Oregon State but did not play last year. Idendi averaged
12.8 points, 3.6 assists and shot 36% from 3 at George Fox. She is one of the four walkons. Idendi is a 5-8 Soph.

FORECAST:

One returning starter and she was a role player and one other who barely played return. This was not a good recruiting class, but the four recruits will certainly get a chance to prove themselves. It will be a very long season.