The NOVA women’s basketball players joined the team to compete versus other teams, but the last two months have been mainly practices with only two games played due to various reasons. Perhaps if you know of a good women’s team that needs a game, send your message to NOVA Coach Vincent.

The string of game cancellations began Dec.19 when the game against Cecil College was cancelled due to the big snowstorm. The team did play on Jan. 4 against the Community College of Philadelphia, losing that game. The Jan. 9 game at Southside was cancelled as Southside could not field a full team, and then the Jan. 13 game against the College of Southern Maryland at home was cancelled, as reportedly it could not field a full team, perhaps due to the awful season it was enduring.

Then it happened-on Jan. 17,  a winning home game versus Thomas Nelson. Two games in two weeks!

That game was to be the women’s last game until (perhaps) a scheduled home game on Feb. 20-a period of almost five weeks.

A Saturday game on Jan. 23 against Germanna College was cancelled as they did not have a team. Snow, the next weekend, cancelled the trip to the Tidewater area for two games. A newly scheduled game against the Catholic University JV on a Wednesday was cancelled.

Then the two snowstorms cancelled the Montgomery College and Baltimore City Community College games on Feb. 8 and 10. The next game at home against Southside was cancelled as they again could not gather enough players. Finally, the next game was to be against Germanna which had no team.

The scorecard for those two months: two games played, five games called off due to snow, six games called off by the other team. In those latter instances, the men’s team did play.

This mid-season inactivity is too bad, as NOVA has a fine team with a present record of 11-4 in actual games played, and has several especially talented players in their final year of eligibility.

By: Arch Scurlock

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