Senior guard Amanda Copas helped the women’s basketball team reach new heights of success this season. Copas led the Leopards to a .500 winning percentage and scored her 1,000th career point along the way.

Emotions and the score ran high for the Leopard seniors Monday, as the women’s basketball team beat Pomona- Pitzer on senior night, 111-69.

La Verne played a tight defensive game Saturday at Claremont Mudd-Scripps. The Leopards led the game by 14 points until the Athenas came back in the second half. La Verne’s defense stood strong and they held on for an 82-77 win.

The women’s basketball team opened up the season with a 70-55 loss to Whitman Friday at Frantz Athletic Court.

After ending last season with a record of 8-17 overall and 6-8 in SCIAC, the women’s basketball team has high hopes to go all the way in conference for the 2012-2013 season.

Seniors Chantal Crouzet and Raphaelle Buenafe ended their Leopard careers on a high note, helping the women’s basketball team cruise to a 90-36 senior night win over Caltech on Saturday.

On Saturday the University of La Verne women’s basketball team won a clean-sweeping victory over Pomona Pitzer with a final score of 113-61.

The women’s basketball team kept the game close against the San Diego Christian Hawks Monday, but after an 18-0 run during the second half by the visitors, fell 80-64.

The banged up Leopard women’s basketball team made their first appearance at Frantz Athletic Court of the 2011-2012 season in a 75-72 loss to NAIA Linfield, dropping their second game in three days on Nov. 21.

Last season the women’s basketball team earned a berth to the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Confer­ence postseason tournament and the second highest three-point shooting percentage in Division III, but this year has the makings of even greater success.