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Article: College Basketball -- YVCC women surprised by Walla Walla
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- January 19, 2006
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YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
WALLA WALLA -- Games like this sometimes happen to basketball
teams, even good ones like the Yakima Valley women.
The Yaks' coach, Cody Butler, would've preferred that it had
happened a couple of weeks earlier.
"That was the wakeup call you try to avoid," he said after YVCC's
73-69 loss to Walla Walla on Wednesday night. "You almost wish you'd
lost your last game before league."
The defeat snapped a 10-game winning streak for the Yaks, who
were ranked No. 2 in the most recent NWAACC poll. It reduced their
region record to 2-1 and their overall mark to 16-2 going into
Saturday's home game against No. 7 Columbia Basin, the defending
NWAACC champion.
Yakima Valley's ...