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| The Daemen College women's basketball team tips off the 2016-17 season this weekend by taking part in the ECC / CACC Challenge hosted by Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y…the tournament will feature teams from the East Coast Conference (ECC) and the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC)…Daemen will face Felician University during opening night action on Friday (Nov. 11) and then square off against Nyack College in the second round on Saturday (Nov. 12) afternoon. |
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| GAME INFORMATION & LINKS |
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Date:Â Friday, Nov. 11
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Time:Â 6 p.m.
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Voller Athletic Center
Rochester, N.Y. |
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Felician Roster |
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Felician Schedule |
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Felician Stats (2015-16) |
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Date:Â Saturday, Nov. 12
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Time:Â 3Â p.m.
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Location:
Voller Athletic Center
Rochester, N.Y. |
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Nyack Roster |
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Nyack Schedule |
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Nyack Stats (2015-16) |
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Daemen Twitter:Â |
@DaemenAthletics, @DaemenWBB |
| Daemen Hashtags:Â |
#DCWildcatNation, #WNYsD2Team, #LiveBreatheDaemen, #beFIERCE |
| Felician Twitter: |
@FelicianUSports |
| Nyack Twitter: |
@NyackWarriors |
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| MEET THE NEW BOSS |
| Jenepher Banker enters her first season as head women's basketball coach at Daemen…Banker comes to Daemen with nearly 30 years of coaching experience at various levels, ranging from Division I to high school…her first collegiate experience came as an assistant coach at Iowa State University (1986-88) and later as an assistant at Canisius College (1993-95)…between assistant coaching stops, Banker served as the head coach at Penn State-Behrend where she led the NCAA Division III program to a 67-61 overall record…her 1991-92 team went 23-4, winning the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) South Region championship…that team garnered Penn State-Behrend's first-ever national ranking in any sport…she was inducted into Penn State-Behrend's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994…Banker ultimately settled at the high school level, coaching the varsity team at Grand Island High School from 1998-2013, building the Lady Vikings into a regional contender with seven Section VI championships, four appearances in the Far West Regional, and one appearance at the New York State final four. |
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| DAEMEN SCOUTING REPORT (0-0, 0-0 ECC) |
| Daemen returns three starters and eight players from last year's team that posted a 9-17 overall record and a 7-13 mark in the East Coast Conference…key losses include shooting guard Raeann Stilwell and forward Somara Colon…Stilwell averaged 8.3 points last year and closed out her career with a program-record 243 three-pointers…Colon averaged 7.2 points and 5.9 rebounds…the Wildcats were voted ninth in the 2016-17 ECC preseason poll…junior Sarah Saba tops the list of returning players…she became the first-ever women's basketball player from Daemen to earn first-team All-ECC honors last winter after leading the team in points (432), rebounds (165), blocks (44) and steals (36)…seniors Leah McDonell and Natalie Galus also return…McDonell ranked second on the team in scoring (9.5 ppg) and assists (69) last year while also contributing 4.7 rebounds…Galus averaged 8.0 points and 5.7 rebounds and ranked second on the team in three-pointers (35) and blocks (39)…seniors Rachel Pawlak and Jesse DeWaters, juniors Taylor Heinold and Liz Miles and sophomore Erin Egan will provided quality depth…Miles averaged 19 minutes, 5.4 points and 5.7 rebounds last year…five freshmen join the fold, all with impressive credentials…guard Tiara Filbert was expected to make immediate contributions, but a preseason injury will sideline her for the entire season…she collected first-team Class A all-state honors and was named the All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year last winter after leading Batavia High School to its first-ever NYSPHSAA Section V title…the 5-9 guard averaged 19.3 points, 12.1 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 4.6 steals per game last year…Jordan Heinold joins her sister Taylor following an outstanding career at Immaculata Academy…the 6-foot G/F closed out her career as the school's all-time leading scorer and collected second-team Class B all-state and second-team All-Western New York honors last year…guards Carina Pringle, Alexis Perdue and Sydney Jones also join the fold…Pringle earned five varsity letters at Greece Athena High School, picking up two first-team All-Monroe County selections…Perdue comes to Daemen from Lindenhurst High School on Long Island..a ninth-team Class AA all-state selection last year, she was named the Suffolk County League Rookie of the Year after her freshman season and went on to add three all-league and all-county selections…Jones played five varsity seasons at Midlakes High School…she was a sixth-team Class B all-state pick last winter after averaging 19.6 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.8 assists…the 2015-16 Finger Lakes East Player of the Year, she was also a first-team All-Greater Rochester selection...Daemen unofficially opened the "Banker Era" last night with a hard-fought 80-73 exhibition loss at Division I Canisius…the Wildcats held a 62-58 lead early in the fourth quarter, but the Golden Griffins outscored Daemen 22-11 down the stretch to earn the win. |
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| FELICIAN SCOUTING REPORT (0-0, 0-0 CACC) |
| Felician returns eight players and three starters from last year's team that finished 2-24 overall and 2-17 in the CACC…the Eagles were voted fifth in the 2016-17 CACC North Division preseason poll…veteran head coach Steve Fagan must overcome the graduation of guard Eliana Scanlan who led the team in scoring (13.1 ppg), assists (3.0 apg) and steals (41) last year…sophomores Kameron Stone and Remi Iwelu and junior Treanda Foster top the list of returning players…Stone, a 5-10 forward, played in just eight games last year but averaged 7.5 points and 6.9 rebounds during her limited playing time…Iwelu, a 5-11 center, averaged 6.0 points and 4.8 rebounds with a team-high 40 blocks…Foster, a 5-10 forward, started 24 games and averaged 4.3 points and 6.8 rebounds…sophomore guard Hannah Johnson (5.2 ppg, 3.2 rpg) is coming off a productive rookie season…sophomore guard Kayla Diaz joins the team after playing in 21 games and averaging 10 minutes a game at Division I New Jersey Institute of Technology last year…junior forward Marya Trapp returns to action after a one-year break…she played at Brookdale CC in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and led the Jersey Blues to the NJCAA Division III Final Four as a freshman…a two-time NJCAA all-American, she averaged 16.6 points and 11.8 rebounds and racked up 156 blocks over her two seasons. |
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| THE HISTORY vs. FELICIAN |
| All-Time: Daemen leads 1-0 |
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| Nov. 21, 1997 - Daemen 98, Felician 51 |
@ Daemen |
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| NYACKÂ SCOUTINGÂ REPORT (0-0, 0-0 CACC) |
| Nyack returns just five players and one starter from last year's team that finished 7-20 overall and 5-14 in the CACC…the Warriors were voted fourth in the 2016-17 CACC North Division preseason poll…seventh-year head coach David Julien must overcome the graduation of four of the team's top five scorers from last year…junior guard Kelli Smoot tops the list of returning players…she averaged 7.7 points with 34 steals last winter…transfers Tayelor McCalister, Jailyn Green and Imani Dawson and freshman Natalie Cortes are expected to make immediate contributions…McCalister spent two seasons at Division I Detroit Mercy and collected fourth-team all-conference honors after averaging 11.7 points and 3.3 assists as a sophomore…Green and Dawson helped Hartford Community College to a NJCAA Division III regional title last year…Cortes played at Paterson (N.J.) Eastside High School and also has experience playing with the Puerto Rican national U17 team. |
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| THE HISTORY vs. NYACK |
| All-Time: Nyack leads 3-1 |
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| Jan. 16, 1999 - Nyack 75, Daemen 73 |
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| Dec. 9, 2000 - Nyack 72, Daemen 51 |
@ Edinboro, Pa. |
| Nov. 16, 2003 - Daemen 76, Nyack 43 |
@ Daemen |
| Nov. 14, 2015 - Nyack 64, Daemen 56 |
@ Roberts Wesleyan | BOX SCORE | GAME RECAP |
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| FINE TUNED |
| Daemen tuned up for the regular-season with a solid effort in an exhibition game against its Division I neighbors Canisius College last night…a 13-6 run over the final 5:13 of the fourth quarter secured an 80-73 win for Canisius and denied Daemen the upset…three players reached double figures in points for Daemen…junior Sarah Saba scored 15 first-half points and finished with 19 points, four assists and three blocks…freshman guard Sydney Jones played 30 minutes, drilled five three-pointers and finished with 18 points, two assists and two steals…senior Jesse DeWaters connected on 4-of-7 shots and totaled 10 points and four boards off the bench, while classmate Leah McDonell played 33 minutes and totaled seven points and a team-high seven assists. |
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| DID YOU KNOW? |
| Seniors Natalie Galus and Leah McDonell have been a constants in the starting lineup since their freshman season…Galus has started 80 of a possible 81 games over the past three seasons and has totaled 785 points, 544 rebounds and 159 blocks over her career…she ranks fifth among Daemen's all-time leaders in career blocks…McDonell has started all 81 games over the last three seasons and has racked up 622 points, 368 rebounds and 191 assists…she established career-highs for points (248), assists (69) and steals (34) in a season last year. |
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| SABA MAKES HISTORY |
| Sarah Saba became the first-ever women's basketball player from Daemen to earn first-team All-ECC honors last winter…Saba closed out the 2015-16 season as Daemen's leader in points (432), rebounds (165), blocks (44) and steals (36), and became the first player since former great Sarah Soroka in 2010-11 to lead the team in points, rebounding, blocks and steals…Saba has played in all 55 games over the past two seasons (52 as a starter) and has totaled 843 points (15.3 ppg) and 375 rebounds (6.8 rpg)…she has scored in double figures in 47 of her 55 career games and will enter her junior season just 157 points shy of becoming the 23rd player in program history to score 1,000 points. |
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| ON THE HORIZON |
| The Wildcats return to action Wednesday (Nov. 16) when they travel to Edinboro University for a non-league game…it will mark the first of six-straight road games for Daemen, which does not play a home game until Dec. 14 against New York Institute of Technology. |
