Image: Supplied by Krista Carlson of UBCO Athletics / Chilliwack's Julia Tuchscherer (#10, with the basketball) tied the UFV program record with 35 points in a 93-61 win over UBC Okanagan Saturday night in Kelowna.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Julia Tuchscherer

Chilliwack’s Julia Tuchscherer ties UFV program record with 35 points in 93-61 win over UBCO

Nov 29, 2022 | 9:15 AM

KELOWNA — Chilliwack’s Julia Tuchscherer had the hot hand Saturday night (Nov. 26) in Kelowna, tying the women’s basketball program record with 35 points in a bounce-back 93-61 win over the UBC Okanagan Heat.

Tuchscherer’s incredible offensive night equaled the program record for points in a game, which was set just two years ago in 2020 by her older sister Deanna Tuchscherer. While scoring at a torrid pace of over a point per minute in the game, Tuchscherer also managed to pick up 14 rebounds in the effort.

UFV head coach Al Tuchscherer acknowledged the second-year forward on her response after the previous night’s setback.

“We know that Julia has all sorts of ability, and for her it’s just a matter of being aggressive and trying to establish herself early in the game,” Al Tuchscherer said Saturday. “Last night we challenged her to establish herself in the paint, and I think she really took that to heart today. She was really tough from the beginning of the game.”

The visitors turned up the temperature on the Heat in the second. Tuchscherer, a 6-foot-2 forward in her second year from G.W. Graham, notched 11 points in the quarter to jump start UFV and send them into the half with a 38-31 lead.

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The Cascades would not take their foot off the pedal in the second half, outscoring the heat 55-30 over the third and fourth quarters, enabling them to pick up the win by a 32-point margin.

“I thought the team did a really good job of regrouping today,” Tuchscherer said. “They came out and played a real solid game together, played hard for each other, and it was probably one of the better games we have played in the last several weeks, so I was really proud of their effort.”

Following her season-high scoring performance the previous night, Maddy Gobeil picked up 16 points, nine rebounds, six assists and five steals in the game. Nikki Cabuco also had a solid outing with 13 points while going three for four from beyond the arc, and first-year Bernie Leda posted 11 points in the game.

The Cascades (7-1) will now head to Langley for a pair of matches against local rivals Trinity Western on Friday and Saturday. All games can be streamed live on Canada West TV.

“We’re a team that has some great potential and we have some players that really know how to play, but we’re not a polished version at this point,” Al Tuchscherer said. “We need to continue to get better and we kind of stalled on that a bit, so I thought tonight was a real step forward in how we wanted to play as a team.”