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PREVIEW: Women’s Basketball at Home Again on Tuesday Night

| By: Mike LaValley
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's basketball team will be at home once again Tuesday night when it faces its second consecutive Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) squad as Augsburg College visits Reif Gymnasium. Tip time is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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About the Saints
2012-13 Record: 0-1, 0-0 UMAC

  • CSS dropped its first game of the 2012-13 campaign to Concordia-Moorhead by a score of 75-52.
  • Kayla Heisler (Remer, Minn./Northland HS) scored 14 points for the Saints in the season opener, while Mariah Hovick (Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) chipped in 13 points of her own.
  • The Saints shot 32 percent from the field and 63 percent from the charity stripe.
  • CSS had 15 steals in the season opener, but were outrebounded 52-26.


About the Auggies
2011-12 Record: 14-11, 11-11 MIAC

  • This will be the season opener for Augsburg.
  • The Auggies graduated All-MIAC star Serenae Levine, but bring back Honorable Mention pick Brittany Zins and talented sophomore Abbey Luger.
  • Augsburg is picked eighth in the MIAC Preseason Coaches Poll.
  • The Auggies tied a program record with 14 victories overall and 11 MIAC wins last season.
  • Augsburg's women's basketball team was honored as the school's women's Most Improved Team of the Year at the 2012 Auggie Awards in April.
  • Augsburg claimed a nine-win improvement, from a 5-20 finish in 2010-11 to a 14-11 finish in 2011-12.

Series History: (CSS is 4-0 all-time vs. Augsburg)
  • The Saints and Auggies last met in 2002, which saw the Saints win 60-54 when the Reif Gymnasium was nicknamed “The Kennel.”
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