Women Sign Two More Players

June 25, 2007

Two more players will be joining the Southwestern Oklahoma State University women’s basketball team after recently signing national letters of intent. The additions now mean seven new scholarship players will be available for coach Shelly Pond as the Bulldogs prepare for the 2007-08 season.

The new signees are University of Missouri-Kansas City transfer Tobey Beer and former East Central University starter Sarah Taylor.

Beer is a 5-5 junior guard from Sapulpa who will play her next two seasons at SWOSU. She played in 30 games last year for UMKC, a NCAA Division I school, where she made five starts and averaged 3.1 points per game. She played in 24 games as a sophomore at UMKC where she scored a career-high nine points against the University of Arkansas.

Beer was a three-time, all-state selection and a four-time all-Frontier Conference Selection at Sapulpa High School. She averaged 11 points, 4.7 assists and 3.6 steals per game while making nearly 47% of her three point attempts. At Sapulpa, her teams went 90-18 during her career and qualified for the state tournament one time.

Taylor, a 6-0 junior center from McCurtain High School, played two seasons at ECU where she finished her sophomore year as the team’s third-leading scorer at 9.9 points per game. She led the Tigers in scoring four different times and once scored 19 points in a win against Rhema Bible.