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Ava Chang in action (photo by Richard Quinton).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAva Chang in action (photo by Richard Quinton).<\/p>\n
Over the final three quarters of Thursday\u2019s contest v. visiting Long Beach City College, the Pasadena CC women\u2019s basketball team outscored the state\u2019s #25-ranked team, 38-34. Unfortunately for the Lancers, they were already in a 19-5 hole after the game\u2019s first 10 minutes as the Vikings handed them a 53-43 defeat. It was a team season low in scoring for the Lancers.<\/p>\n
PCC\u2019s shooting woes, included failing to hit a 3-pointer (0-for-12) all night while also finding it hard to put the ball through the hoop in the first half when it made only 4-for-25 from the field and just 4-for-10 at the free throw line. While Pasadena\u2019s defense improved in the second quarter, the team trailed 27-12 by halftime.<\/p>\n
The Lancers (9-9) were far better offensively in the second half, but went down by as much as 49-29 midway through the fourth quarter. PCC made 50 percent from the field (10-for-20) in the final 20 minutes and converted 9-for-11 from the charity stripe in the last period alone.<\/p>\n
Long Beach (8-8) was led by sophomore transfer Zoe Lamkin, a member of Orange Coast College\u2019s state finalist team last season, who scored 19 points and made four steals.<\/p>\n
PCC was paced by\u00a0Celine Bolton-Ford<\/a>, who tallied 10 points, 12 rebounds all on the defensive end, four blocked shots and two steals.\u00a0Kennedy Jackson<\/a>\u00a0added 10 points and\u00a0Kamora Fletcher<\/a>, who came off the bench, contributed 11 points.\u00a0Ava Chang<\/a>\u00a0chipped in six points and four steals.<\/p>\n The Lancers have been playing in tighter low-scoring games of late, but the lack of scoring has been a hinderance. Going 1-4 in their last five games, the team is averaging just 51.2 points. In the squad\u2019s first 13 games, PCC averaged 66 points and it resulted in a 8-5 record.<\/p>\n The freshman Fletcher tops the team and is ninth in the 11-team South Coast Conference at 15.1 points per game while Bolton-Ford\u2019s 11.9 rebounds average is second in the league. The sophomore Bolton-Ford\u2019s 28 blocked shots is also second among conference players.<\/p>\n PCC has had a turnaround season under interim head coach Alexa Mirzaian as the Lancers already have four more victories than all of 2024-25. Among the team\u2019s defeats are two against #5 Moorpark and one against #6 MiraCosta.<\/p>\n Pasadena next hosts Cerritos College on Wednesday, Jan. 14 in a 7 p.m. tip-off at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium. The Lancers don\u2019t begin their 8-game, SCC North Division schedule until Friday, Jan. 23 in hosting #24-ranked LA Trade-Tech.<\/p>\n Get all the latest Pasadena news, more than 10 fresh stories daily, 7 days a week at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ava Chang in action (photo by Richard Quinton). Over the final three quarters of Thursday\u2019s contest v. visiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,1984,1986,421,1979,1985,23,131,133,132,1978,1987,1992,1993,1977,1989,1982,1980,1991,1983,1988,1990,1981],"class_list":["post-128092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-breaking-news","tag-calendar","tag-community-news","tag-food-and-drink","tag-latest-news","tag-lifestyles","tag-local-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county-news","tag-nonprofit-news","tag-official-events-calendar","tag-old-town-pasadena-news","tag-pasadena","tag-pasadena-arts-and-culture","tag-pasadena-city-guide","tag-pasadena-events","tag-pasadena-living","tag-pasadena-restaurants","tag-pasadena-shopping-news","tag-popular-things-to-do-in-pasadena","tag-things-to-do-in-pasadena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768053007_288_mail-icon.png\n\"\/){kind=icon}
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