Chimes Athlete of the Week: Men’s basketball’s Alex Talma

Despite a tough loss against rival APU, Talma was a bright spot with strong shooting and rebounding.

Joel Ashor, Sports Editor • January 23, 2019

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When Biola’s men’s basketball team took on Azusa Pacific University for the first time this season, they were blown out in brutal fashion at Chase Gymnasium. Senior guard Alex Talma struggled mightily in that game, but he bounced back strong in the second meeting with the Cougars.

Although they lost yet again at APU’s Felix Event Center this past Saturday, Talma kept the Eagles within striking distance throughout the second half of the 12-point loss.

Biola took another tough loss to the Cougars, but the final score of 84-72 was much closer than the two teams’ first meeting thanks to Talma. The New Zealand native dropped a team-high 19 points, and snagged another team high eight rebounds.

For keeping the Eagles within striking distance throughout the game, and leading his team offensively, Alex Talma is once again our Chimes Athlete of the Week.

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Joel Ashor, Sports Editor

Joel Ashor is a junior broadcast journalism major with a love for sports, friends, and history. Joel is a Notre Dame football, Angels baseball, and Boston Celtics fan. [email protected] Growing up in the small city of Santa Maria, California as the youngest of four boys, I was always surrounded by things much earlier than normal, due to the fact that I experienced things through my much older brothers. One of the things I experienced was sports, and when I started watching and seeing what it looked like to be on a sports team, I fell in love. In my family, sports is not really an option, it just is something that we all do. Luckily my parents never had to force me or my brothers to play sports because we all had a passion for it. From a young age I immersed myself in the culture of sports, watching any sport that was on, growing a particular liking to college football. My uncle attended the University of Notre Dame, and my whole family are die-hard Irish fans. Naturally I became one as well, and I remember Saturday mornings with the family quite clearly. As I grew older I began to see and understand more about what it took to broadcast a live sports game, and I became quite intrigued by it. I decided I wanted to be involved with sports for the rest of my life and cover it in some form. One of the sports commentators I look up to greatly and have always liked is NBC sports reporter Bob Costas, who is a jack of all trades broadcaster and covers all sports from the Olympics to football and many more. I aspire to be a broadcast journalist someday, and the Chimes is an excellent way to hone my skills and continue to practice writing and talking about sports. I look forward to my growth while working with the Chimes in reporting accurately and quickly, and cannot wait to cover Biola sports.

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