| THE LEAD |
| The Daemen College women's basketball team travels to the University of the District of Columbia for a league game Saturday. |
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| GAME INFORMATION & LINKS |
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Date: Saturday, Dec. 3
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Time: 1 p.m.
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Location:
UDC Sports Complex
Washington, D.C. |
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| Daemen Roster |
UDC Roster |
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| Daemen Schedule |
UDC Schedule |
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| Daemen Stats |
UDC Stats |
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LIVE VIDEO |
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Daemen Twitter: |
@DaemenAthletics, @DaemenWBB |
| Daemen Hashtags: |
#DCWildcatNation, #WNYsD2Team, #LiveBreatheDaemen, #beFIERCE |
| UDC Twitter: |
@UDCAthletics |
| ECC Twitter: |
@ECCSports |
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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 (2-4, 0-1 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 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), but has dropped its last four games to Edinboro (90-59), Notre Dame College (80-74), Le Moyne (77-68) and LIU Post (69-59)…Saba (15.8 ppg) and McDonell (15.5 ppg) have paced the Wildcats thus far…Saba scored 24 points in the loss to Notre Dame and is also averaging a team-high 7.3 rebounds…McDonell scored a career-high 23 points in the win over Felician and leads the team in assists (3.2 apg) and steals (14)…Galus (6.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg) totaled 14 points and eight boards against Nyack, while Pringle (7.2 ppg) stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals against Nyack. |
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| UDC SCOUTING REPORT (1-6, 0-0 ECC) |
| District of Columbia returns just four players and no starters from last year's team that finished 21-9 (15-5 ECC) and advanced to the semifinals of the ECC Tournament…UDC named former University of Maryland standout and NBA veteran Juan Dixon as head women's basketball coach last month…all-conference selections Taj Baldwin-Kollore and Iman Scott were lost to graduation…UDC was voted eighth in the 2016-17 ECC preseason poll…the Firebirds dropped their first four games of the season before posting a 65-63 win over Lincoln (Pa.) on Nov. 22…the Firebirds have since dropped non-league decisions to Virginia State (55-51) and Shippensburg (70-33)…rookies NyAsia Anderson and Bianca White have paced the Firebirds thus far…Anderson totaled 20 points and eight rebounds in the win over Lincoln and is averaging 11.9 points and 8.0 rebounds…White had five three-pointers and 18 points in a 90-55 loss to Southern Connecticut and is averaging 9.1 points with a team-high 15 three-pointers…additional production has come from senior guard Shantrel Oliver (9.0 ppg ) and junior guard Kaiya Coleman (5.0 ppg). |
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| THE HISTORY vs. UDC |
| District of Columbia owns a 6-0 advantage in the all-time series. |
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| Previous Results: |
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| Jan. 29, 2016 - UDC 73, Daemen 57 |
@ UDC | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Dec. 13, 2015 - UDC 66, Daemen 60 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Feb. 6, 2015 - UDC 86, Daemen 62 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Jan. 3, 2015 - UDC 72, Daemen 60 |
@ UDC | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Feb. 14, 2014 - UDC 91, Daemen 73 |
@ UDC | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Jan. 12, 2014 - UDC 74, Daemen 63 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | 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…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 seventh 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 86 of a possible 87 games over the past four seasons and has totaled 824 points, 572 rebounds and 165 blocks over her career…she ranks fifth among Daemen's all-time leaders in career blocks…McDonell has started all 87 games and has racked up 715 points, 402 rebounds, 210 assists and 73 steals…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 61 games over the past two seasons (58 as a starter) and has totaled 938 points (15.4 ppg) and 419 rebounds (6.9 rpg)…she has scored in double figures in 53 of her 61 career games and stands just 62 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 (Dec. 10) when they travel to the University of Bridgeport for an ECC contest. |
