November 15, 2008
Lady Commodores blast No. 2 team
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - MARIANNA - Gulf Coast’s first game this season against a higherranked opponent turned out like most of its other games. The fifth-ranked Lady Commodores defeated No. 2 Trinity Valley 97-68 on Saturday in the Third Annual Chipola College Alzheimer’s Classic. Andrea Smith continued an impressive start to her freshman season with 26 points including two 3-pointers. “She’s keeping on keeping on,” Gulf Coast coach Roonie Scovel said. “Let’s hope she stays healthy.” Angela Felton had 24 points, and was hot behind the 3-point arc with three treys. Chimere Jordan added 19 points. “Shot the ball really well,” Scovel said of Felton. “She really played tonight with a sense of urgency. That was nice to see.” For the second straight game Gulf Coast had 11 3-pointers. “We shot the ball real well,” Scovel said. “The first 10, 12 minutes we played real well. Good chemistry. Good shot selection. We kinda died a little bit before the half.” The Lady Commodores are 6-0.

November 14, 2008
GCCC women cruise
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - MARIANNA - Five Gulf Coast Lady Commodores scored in double digits as they topped another ranked team, No. 18 Monroe, 101-71 in the Third Annual Chipola College Alzheimer's Classic on Friday afternoon. Freshman Andrea Smith led all scorers with 24 points as the young Lady Commodores started to look like a typical Roonie Scovel team, fast breaking and hitting the open shots. Gulf Coast (5-0) was 8 of 17 from behind the 3-point line in the first half and made three in the second as they were able to get to the basket easier.
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November 11, 2008
Andrea Smith named FCCAA Player of the Week
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gulf Coast Community College’s Andrea Smith is this week’s FCCAA Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Smith, a freshman from Lakeland, Fla., averaged 22.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 3.0 steals in victories over then-No. 4 Santa Fe and FCCJ at last weekend’s Milton H. Johnson Classic. Against Santa Fe, Smith tallied 20 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals, leading the topranked Lady Commodores to an 83-68 win. The next day she scored 25 points, leading Gulf Coast to a 38-point win over FCCJ. Against the Lady Stars, she also recorded eight rebounds, three assists and three steals. Smith also hit 15-of-16 from the charity stripe in the two games.

November 9, 2008
GCCC women win
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - MARIANNA, FL - Andrell Smith scored 25 points, Gulf Coast made 15 3-pointers and the Lady Commodores held Florida Community College in Jacksonville to 17 first-half points in a lopsided 96-58 victory on Saturday. Smith had four 3-pointers, while teammates Chimere Jordan and Chelsea Combest added five 3-pointers each. Jordan finished with 17 points and Combest had 16. "We are shooting the ball real well from long range," said Gulf Coast coach Roonie Scovel. "We need to play better defense, though."
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November 8, 2008
GCCC teams roll to 3-0
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - MARIANNA, FL - Chimere Jordan scored 25 points, including five 3-pointers, as the Lady Commodores improved to 3-0 on the season in a game in Marianna. Andrell Smith and Ashlee Kelly each added a pair of 3-pointers to give the Lady Commodores nine baskets from outside the arc. Andrea Smith scored 20 points for Gulf Coast, which led 41-25 at halftime.
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November 1, 2008
Juco basketball: GCCC teams both 2-0
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - SANFORD - Angela Felton scored 25 points to lead the Gulf Coast women's basketball team to an 82-36 win over Indian River Community College on Saturday. Felton, a freshman guard from Leesburg, made 6 of 10 three-pointers for the defending national champion Lady Commodores (2-0). Felton was not the only freshman to have a good afternoon for Gulf Coast: Andrea Smith, a guard from Lakeland, added 17 points and five rebounds; Taylor Dalrymple, of Atlanta, added 10 points and equaled a team-high six rebounds; and Paige McCallum, of Whiteville, N.C., also had six rebounds.
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October 31, 2008
Scovel, dad have special bond
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - PANAMA CITY - Last year's trip to the NJCAA national finals seemed to have it all for the Gulf Coast Lady Commodores. Except for C.J. Scovel. For the first time in seven trips to Salina, Kan., Roonie Scovel's father was unable to travel with the team. He was suffering from C.O.P.D., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a severe form of emphysema, and five compression fractures in his back. "We fully understood because we knew he couldn't go," Roonie said. "But just a little difficult because he was always right there."
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October 31, 2008
GCCC teams open season with wins
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - SANFORD - Andrea Smith scored 17 points and Chimere Jordan added 16 as the defending national champion Gulf Coast women's basketball team opened its season with a 93-55 victory over Seminole on Friday. Sabrina Johnson added 15 points, Andrell Smith had nine and Taylor Dalrymple scored eight for the Lady Commodores. Gulf Coast raced to a 42-21 hafltime lead and were not threatened after that.
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October 23, 2008
GC women's basketball team ranked fifth in preseason poll
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - PANAMA CITY - The new shoes are out of their boxes, the new balls are inflated and the new practice uniforms are hanging in the lockers. Wednesday marks the first official day of practice for the Gulf Coast men's and women's basketball teams. And both have new, young squads. "We've had all this preseason conditioning, preseason shootarounds, preseason weights. Now it means it's not long off that we're going to line up and play," Lady Commodores coach Roonie Scovel said. Of the 14 players on the roster, Scovel returns three members of last year's national championship team. The youth of this year's squad makes the next couple of weeks of practice until the first preseason exhibition all the more important. "You got to have great practices. You got to have great work ethic," Scovel said. "With a lot of young kids, you have to be ready. That attitude comes from a sense of urgency." Both teams have 30 days to get the 11 freshmen women, and seven freshmen men ready for the Oct. 31 season opener.
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October 1, 2008
GCCC basketball opens practice on Wednesday
NEWS HERALD (Josh Weinfuss ) - PANAMA CITY - The new shoes are out of their boxes, the new balls are inflated and the new practice uniforms are hanging in the lockers. Wednesday marks the first official day of practice for the Gulf Coast men's and women's basketball teams. And both have new, young squads. "We've had all this preseason conditioning, preseason shootarounds, preseason weights. Now it means it's not long off that we're going to line up and play," Lady Commodores coach Roonie Scovel said. Of the 14 players on the roster, Scovel returns three members of last year's national championship team. The youth of this year's squad makes the next couple of weeks of practice until the first preseason exhibition all the more important. "You got to have great practices. You got to have great work ethic," Scovel said. "With a lot of young kids, you have to be ready. That attitude comes from a sense of urgency." Both teams have 30 days to get the 11 freshmen women, and seven freshmen men ready for the Oct. 31 season opener.
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