| THE LEAD |
| The Daemen College women's basketball team plays the last of eight-straight road/neutral site games this weekend when it travels to the University of Bridgeport for an East Coast Conference game. |
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| GAME INFORMATION & LINKS |
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Date: Saturday, Dec. 10
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Time: 1 p.m.
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Location:
Harvey Hubbell Gymnasium
Bridgeport, Conn. |
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| Daemen Roster |
Bridgeport Roster |
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| Daemen Schedule |
Bridgeport Schedule |
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| Daemen Stats |
Bridgeport Stats |
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LIVE VIDEO |
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| SOCIAL MEDIA |
| Daemen Twitter: |
@DaemenAthletics, @DaemenWBB |
| Daemen Hashtags: |
#DCWildcatNation, #WNYsD2Team, #LiveBreatheDaemen, #beFIERCE |
| UB Twitter: |
@PKnights |
| 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 (2-5, 0-2 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 five games to Edinboro (90-59), Notre Dame College (80-74), Le Moyne (77-68), LIU Post (69-59) and District of Columbia (56-54)… McDonell (15.1 ppg) and Saba (14.7 ppg) and have paced the Wildcats thus far…McDonell scored a career-high 23 points in the win over Felician and leads the team in assists (2.9 apg) and steals (14)…Saba scored 24 points in the loss to Notre Dame and is averaging a team-high 6.7 rebounds…Jordan Heinold (7.7 ppg) scored 21 points in the loss to UDC last weekend and has made a team-high 12 three-pointers…Galus (6.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg) totaled 14 points and eight boards against Nyack, while Pringle (7.5 ppg) stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals against Nyack. |
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| UB SCOUTING REPORT (7-1, 2-0 ECC) |
| Bridgeport returns nine players and four starters from last year's team that finished 10-18 overall and 8-12 in the ECC…UB was voted fifth in the 2016-17 ECC preseason poll…UB is ranked fourth in the latest D2SIDA East Region poll…the Purple Knights rank second among ECC teams in points per game (75.9 ppg)…UB suffered a season-opening loss to Philadelphia (57-46), but has run off seven-straight wins since then…UB has scored 201 points over its last two games and is coming off a 103-75 victory at Chestnut Hill on Wednesday…it marked the first time since the 1995-96 season the Purple Knights have scored in triple digits…the Purple Knights opened ECC play with an 82-73 win over New York Tech last week and improved to 2-0 in the league following a 98-63 rout of Mercy…junior guard Aurelie Leblanc-Florent and senior transfer Camera Miley have paced the Purple Knights thus far…Leblanc-Florent drilled eight three-pointers and totaled 28 points in the win over Chestnut Hill and is averaging 16.0 points with a team-high 32 three-pointers…Miley, who played the last three seasons at the University at Buffalo, totaled 15 points and five assists in the win over NYIT and is averaging 12.4 points and a team-high 4.4 assists…additional production has come from senior forward Evelyn Over (10.1 ppg, 8.5 rpg) and transfers Samnell Vonleh (9.8 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 29 blks) and Aaliyah Mercer (9.9 ppg, 3.3 apg, 13 stls)…the 6-foot-5 Vonleh played at Saint Anselm College last year and was named to the Northeast-10 Conference All-Rookie team…Mercer helped Shaw University to the NCAA Division II Tournament last year. |
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| THE HISTORY vs. UB |
| Daemen has prevailed in four of the last five meetings and owns a 4-2 advantage in the all-time series. |
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| Previous Results: |
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| Feb. 7, 2016 - Daemen 88, UB 70 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Dec. 20, 2015 - UB 70, Daemen 68 ot |
@ UB | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Feb. 14, 2015 - Daemen 68, UB 61 |
@ UB | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Jan. 10, 2015 - Daemen 75, UB 65 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Feb. 22, 2014 - Daemen 87, UB 72 |
@ Daemen | BOX SCORE | RECAP |
| Jan. 18, 2014 - UB 73, Daemen 59 |
@ UB | 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 last 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 88 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 88 games and has racked up 728 points, 409 rebounds, 211 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 62 games over the past two seasons (59 as a starter) and has totaled 946 points (15.3 ppg) and 422 rebounds (6.8 rpg)…she has scored in double figures in 53 of her 62 career games and stands just 54 points shy of becoming the 23rd player in program history to score 1,000 points. |
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| ON THE HORIZON |
| The Wildcats finally make their 2016-17 home debut on Wednesday (12/14) when they host New York Institute of Technology in an ECC contest. |
