Change in Women's Basketball Schedule

Release Date: December 3, 2002

MONMOUTH, Ill. – Monmouth has rescheduled its December 18th game against Rockford. It will now be played December 4th at 7 p.m. at MC's Glennie Gym. The following is a detailed news release about the event:

A women’s basketball schedule discrepancy between Monmouth and Rockford colleges has resulted in a delightful twist of fate for Fighting Scots’ senior standout Melissa Jones.

Melissa Jones

Jones figured that her first and only collegiate meeting against her sister, Paula, a freshman at Rockford, would occur on Dec. 18, when Monmouth was scheduled to play the Regents at Glennie Gym.

Rockford, however, has been publicizing the meeting for Dec. 4. When Monmouth officials learned about the discrepancy on Monday, they attempted to find officials for Dec. 4 and were successful, so the two teams will meet at 7 p.m.

Jones will enter the game needing just five points to become the sixth player in the history of the women’s program to score 1,000 points. She figured to join the group – which also includes Heather Robertson, Penny Rowan, Ann Jamieson, Karen Valentas and Jill Schultz – when Monmouth plays Knox on Dec. 7, but now she should reach the mark with her sister present.

The younger Jones is also a basketball talent, as she captured the Queen of the Hill title last year at the Country Insurance Three-Point Showdown at the IHSA girls state basketball finals. In her brief collegiate career, she’s averaging 9.8 points per game as a starting forward for Rockford.

Both girls prepped at East Moline’s United Township High School and are the daughters of Marvin and Sandra Jones of Port Byron.

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