College women’s basketball: Edmiston ends career as Lion of the

Week

COSTA MESA - Erin Edmiston, a senior for the Vanguard University

women’s basketball team, ended her two-year career as Lion of the Week

after leading the team in scoring at the NAIA National Tournament March

13.

Edmiston (the Lion of the Week ending March 18) has supplied a charge

to the team this season as an aggressive player and defensive standout

for the Lions, as well as being the second leading scorer on the team

with nine points per game.

The Lions, unseeded in the 32-team tournament, lost, 87-65, to No.

seeded Central State University of Ohio, in the first round of the NAIA

National Tournament in Jackson, Tennessee. Edmiston paced the Lions

against CSU (27-1) with a team-high 16 points on 7-for-13 shooting from the field. She also grabbed five rebounds and added an assist in 29

minutes of play.

Edmiston, a 5-foot-10 forward from Midpines, Calif., transferred to

Vanguard from Saddleback College last year and completed her 56-game

career this past week with her first trip to the NAIA Tournament with the

Lions. She amassed 411 points in her career at Vanguard and earned Lion

of the Week honors for the second time this season.