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Women’s Basketball Opens Season With Nail-biting Win

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Pepperdine Women’s Basketball beat 63-58 Nov. 7 at Firestone Fieldhouse to kick things off for the 2023-24 season. This is the first time Women’s Basketball has opened up the season with a win since the 2020-21 season.

Graduate student guard Myra Gordon started the scoring for the Waves and finished as the teams top scorer with 17 points and five assists. Junior guard Addi Melone followed in Gordon footsteps with double digit points, finishing with 11 along with four assists.

Pepperdine gets ready to break out of a timeout. The Waves utilized all their timeouts this match saving two timeouts for the fourth quarter, and used both during the last 30 seconds of regulation. Photo courtesy of Alexander Li
Pepperdine gets ready to break out of a timeout.