With early-season momentum on the line, College of the Sequoias\u2019 basketball teams are set to square off against conference co-leader Lemoore College in a pivotal doubleheader Wednesday night, before returning home to host Fresno City on Saturday.<\/p>\n
College of the Sequoias\u2019 basketball teams will have early-season showdowns in conference play, Wednesday at Lemoore College.<\/p>\n
All four teams from Lemoore and COS have won their first two conference games.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s teams play at 5 p.m. at the Golden Eagle Arena, with the women\u2019s teams playing at 7 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n
Men’s basketball\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Giants are 11-5 overall and ranked 28th in the last state poll, along with a No. 15 Northern California ranking. They are likely to move up in the next poll.<\/p>\n
In the conference opener last week against Coalinga, coach Dallas Jensen won his 200th career game. Sequoias has won 26 of its last 28 conference games.<\/p>\n
COS will host Fresno City College Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Porter Field House. Going into this week, the Rams were 1-1 in conference play and 6-10 overall.<\/p>\n
Women’s basketball<\/p>\n
Playing a stiff non-conference schedule prepared the COS women\u2019s team for conference play, as they defeated Taft by 24 points and Reedley by 33 last week. Taft had come into the game 14-2.<\/p>\n
Sequoias, now 9-9 overall and winners of 15 conference games in a row, were ranked 17th in the state and ninth in Northern California in the last poll, but are likely to move up in the next one.<\/p>\n
Lemoore is 13-5 overall. The Giants will face another conference title contender Saturday when they host Fresno Saturday at 5 p.m. following the men\u2019s game. The Rams were 1-0 in the conference and 11-6 overall entering this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With early-season momentum on the line, College of the Sequoias\u2019 basketball teams are set to square off against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[18875,112,114,113,9522,19804,19806,19805,19803,4636,127],"class_list":["post-132768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-american-football","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-nfl-teams","tag-nfl-teams-seasons","tag-seasons-in-american-football","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768","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=132768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}