AREA COLLEGE NOTEBOOK

In the interest of gender equity, the Western State Conference this season is starting men’s basketball games at 5:30 p.m., followed by women’s games at 7:30.

There are some exceptions, but that’s the format for the most part.

Not everyone is thrilled.

“I don’t like it,” said Doug Michelson, men’s coach at Valley. “The coaches didn’t have much input on the decision. It was made by the athletic directors and administrators.”

Glendale’s Brian Beauchemin believes women’s coaches and players might have a different view of the time change once they play a few road games.

“We’ll see how it goes when [the women] don’t get home until 12:30 at night from Bakersfield,” Beauchemin said.

Michelson said WSC men’s and women’s teams will flip-flop game times next season and the conference will evaluate the formats.

Beauchemin would like to see the men’s and women’s teams play on opposite sites on the same night.

“That would be the ideal thing,” Beauchemin said. “But that means somebody would have to be there [at each gym] for every conference game. Those people wouldn’t like that.”

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In a matchup of men’s teams that reached the state Final Four last season, Valley (13-8) hosts Moorpark (12-5) on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in a WSC interdivision game.

“[Moorpark] might be the quickest team we’ve seen this season,” Michelson said.

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Although school records are sketchy, guard Marilyn Dubon is believed to be the first Glendale College women’s basketball player to score 1,000 career points.

Dubon scored 21 points in Glendale’s 78-53 loss to Canyons on Wednesday, giving her 347 points this season and 1,002 total.

Dubon led the WSC in scoring last season at 23.3 points and was selected all-conference.

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The Antelope Valley men’s basketball game at Mt. San Jacinto, scheduled for Monday night, was postponed until Feb. 12 because of the death of Marauder Coach Newton Chelette’s mother.

Liness Chelette died in Lancaster on Jan. 3 while visiting from Louisiana to watch grandson Brady, an Antelope Valley guard, play. She was 77.

Funeral services were Sunday in Jennings, La.