| THE LEAD |
| The Daemen College women's basketball team heads up the New York State Thruway to take on Le Moyne College in a non-league game. |
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| GAME INFORMATION & LINKS |
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Date: Saturday, Nov. 26
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Time: 1 p.m.
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Location:
Henninger Athletic Center
Syracuse, N.Y. |
| Daemen Roster |
Le Moyne Roster |
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| Daemen Schedule |
Le Moyne Schedule |
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| Daemen Stats |
Le Moyne Stats |
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LIVE VIDEO |
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Daemen Twitter: |
@DaemenAthletics, @DaemenWBB |
| Daemen Hashtags: |
#DCWildcatNation, #WNYsD2Team, #LiveBreatheDaemen, #beFIERCE |
| Notre Dame Twitter: |
@LeMoyneDolphins |
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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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| SUCCESSFUL START TO BANKER ERA |
| Daemen opened the season with wins over Felician (65-54) and Nyack (76-54) during the ECC / CACC Challenge at Roberts Wesleyan College…it marked Daemen's first 2-0 start since the 2013-14 season. |
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| DAEMEN SCOUTING REPORT (2-2, 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 a three-time all-league and all-county selection…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 opened the year with wins over Felician (65-54) and Nyack (76-54) and is coming off back-to-back losses to Edinboro (90-59) and Notre Dame College (80-74)…McDonell and Saba have paced the Wildcats this far…McDonell scored a career-high 23 points in the win over Felician and leads the team in scoring (17.8 ppg), assists (3.5 apg) and steals (10)…Saba scored 24 points in the loss to Notre Dame and is averaging 16.3 points and a team-high 7.8 rebounds…she recorded her 12th career double-double (14 pts, 13 rebs) in the win over Felician…Galus (9.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg) totaled 14 points and eight boards against Nyack, while Pringle (7.3 ppg) stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals against Nyack. |
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| LE MOYNE SCOUTING REPORT (4-1, 2-0 NE-10) |
| Le Moyne is a member of the Northeast-10 Conference…the Dolphins return just six players and one starter from last year's team that finished 13-14 (10-10 NE-10)…Le Moyne was voted fourth in the NE-10 Southwest Division preseason poll…fourth-year head coach Gina Castelli must overcome the graduation of 2015-16 NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year Vandell Andrade who averaged 16.4 points and 8.3 rebounds per game last winter…the Dolphins opened the 2016-17 season with an 84-75 loss to Caldwell, before posting wins over Holy Family (73-62), New Haven (72-56) and Pace (63-40)…LC is coming off a 64-55 win over Roberts Wesleyan Wednesday afternoon…freshman guard McKayla Roberts has made an immediate impact…a second-team Class AA all-state selection last year at Cicero-North Syracuse High School, she was named the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Division II National Player of the Week on Tuesday after averaging 25.5 points, 6.5 assists and 5.5 rebounds during the wins over New Haven and Pace…she flirted with a triple-double (23 pts, 9 asts, 8 rebs) against New Haven…she ranks third among NE-10 players in scoring average (19.0 ppg) and leads the league in assists per game (6.6 apg)…additional production has come from senior guard Ailayia Demand (10.4 ppg), Division 1 transfer Nicole Riddick (10.8 ppg, 5.4 rpg) and junior forward Joanna Dobrovosky (10.6 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 18 blks)…Riddick spent her freshman and sophomore years at UMass-Lowell and started 11 games for the Riverhawks last winter…Dobrovosky had seven blocks in the win over New Haven and totaled 15 points and 11 rebounds against RWC. |
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| THE HISTORY vs. LE MOYNE |
| Le Moyne leads the all-time series 7-2…Saturday's game will be the third meeting between the schools in the past four seasons…Le Moyne has prevailed in the last two meetings, including a 74-58 decision last year at Daemen…the teams played seven times between 1996 and 2004…Daemen's last victory over the Dolphins came on Dec. 19, 2004. |
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| Last Five Results: |
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| Nov. 28, 2015 - LC 74, Daemen 58 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Nov. 13, 2013 - LC 80, Daemen 68 |
@ Le Moyne | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Dec. 19, 2004 - Daemen 89, LC 70 |
@Daemen |
| Dec. 30, 2003 - Daemen 70, LC 50 |
@ Le Moyne |
| Jan. 1, 2003 - LC 71, Daemen 58 |
@ Daemen |
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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…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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| ON THE ROAD AGAIN |
| Saturday's game will mark the fifth of eight-straight road/neutral site games for Daemen to start the 2016-17 season…dating back to the end of last season, Daemen will have played 10-straight road/neutral site games before hosting New York Institute of Technology in its 2016-17 home opener on Dec. 14. |
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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 84 of a possible 85 games over the past four seasons and has totaled 821 points, 564 rebounds and 161 blocks over her career…she ranks fifth among Daemen's all-time leaders in career blocks…McDonell has started all 85 games and has racked up 693 points, 385 rebounds and 205 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 59 games over her three seasons (56 as a starter) and has totaled 908 points (15.4 ppg) and 406 rebounds (6.9 rpg)…she has scored in double figures in 51 of her 59 career games and stands just 92 points shy of becoming the 23rd player in program history to score 1,000 points. |
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| ON THE HORIZON |
| The Wildcats are idle until next Saturday (Nov. 30) when they open East Coast Conference play at Long Island University—Post. |
