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Bee staff writer Melody Gutierrez grew up in Twentynine Palms. At 14-years-old, she decided to combine her two passions -- sports and writing -- when she became a special assignments reporter for the Desert Trail, her hometown weekly newspaper. Melody headed to Northern California in 2000 to attend Chico State and has remained in the region ever since. She earned an internship with The Bee and subsequently became a staff writer in 2004 and has covered virtually every sport, starting with high schools, up through college and then the pros. Melody took over coverage of the Monarchs last season and chronicled the team's pursuit of a second straight league championship -- a quest that fell just short.

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April 23, 2007

Updating the scorecard

The Scholanda Dorrell fans came to know last year is returning to training camp with two changes. First, she has a new do. Second, it's no longer Dorrell.

The second-year guard, who already changed her name once before, will be picking up a trey on this one.

After going by Hoston during her playing days at Louisiana State, Scholanda will be using the last name Robinson.

Here's why: Scholanda's maiden name is Dorrell. When she married Frederick in 2002, he was using his mother's last name of Hoston. Recently, however, Fredrick changed his last name to Robinson, his father's surname.

Thus, Scholanda now is Mrs. Robinson.

Posted by Brian Blomster, April 23, 2007 08:50 AM

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