The shooting guard was selected to the All-California Community College Athletic Assn. Tournament team. She is Pasadena City College’s all-time leader in three-point baskets and also led the state in that category this season with 121. Basavand averaged 11.5 points and 2.7 assists per game this season. She finished with 425 points, 39 steals and 99 assists.
Basavand, who earned All-South Coast Conference accolades during her two seasons at Pasadena City College, will play for an Albany squad that finished 6-25 last season.
The Great Danes, a Division I team, saw their season conclude with a 77-75 loss to Boston University in a quarterfinal contest of the American East Conference Tournament.
During the 2006-07 season at Glendale, Basavand averaged 13.3 points-per-game average and led the league in three-point baskets with 74.
GLENDALE FIGHTERS’ BOUTS MOVED BACK?
Fresh off a dominating sixth-round technical knockout of Daniel Gonzalez on June 12 at the Glendale Civic Auditorium, Glendale’s Art “Lionheart” Hovhannesyan was set to fight again on July 16 at the Hollywood Park Casino, with fellow Glendale fighter Vito “Casper” Gasparyan also competing on the card.
However, according to sources in Hovhannesyan’s camp, the card has been moved back a week.
Calls by the News-Press on Friday afternoon to Hollywood Park could not confirm the news though, as there was reportedly no boxing event on the schedule.
Hovhannesyan (8-0-1, 3 KOs), a lightweight whose destruction of Gonzalez garnered him recognition as Hyefighters.com’s Hyefighter of the Month for June, is also set to fight in August, as well.
As for Gasparyan, who used to train with Hovhannesyan at Glendale Fighting Club but no long does, the July card would see him return to the ring for the first time since December.
