The first state championship for the Sierra College women’s basketball team in 23 years also represented a triumph through two years of the pandemic’s impacts. Coach Brandie Murrish says efforts to end the drought were first derailed around two years ago…
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But Murrish says they finally had a normal season that ended on Sunday, with a 76-71 victory over conference rival San Joaquin Delta College, which was played at West Hills College in Lemoore. Sierra College finished the season with a record of 28 and 3, with Delta responsible for two of those defeats. Murrish says they somehow were able to retain four players from the 2019-2020 season. And those players didn’t need to hang around…
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But not before the omicron variant ran also through the team early this year. This is also only the second-ever state championship for the Sierra College women.
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