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PREVIEW: Women’s Basketball to Partake in Border Battle

| By: Christopher Doran
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's basketball team will make the short drive across the bridge to play border rival, University of Wisconsin-Superior this Friday night.

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About the Saints
Record: 3-5, 0-0 UMAC

  • The Saints have currently won three games in a row and are 1-0 on this current five-game, three-state road stretch.
  • CSS will play their first UMAC game of the year at the end of this five game road stretch after the New Year.
  • The Saints have won their last three games by a total of 99 points.
  • CSS had their highest shooting percentage of the year in their last game over Finlandia at 46.3 percent.
  • Erin Frase (Phillips, Wis./Phillips HS (UW-River Falls)) led the way in that game with a career-high 20 points.
  • Mariah Hovick (Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) is leading the way in scoring with 10.5 per game.
  • Caitlin McKernon (Coon Rapids, Minn./Fridley HS) is averaging just over five rebounds per game
  • The Saints are currently 48th in Division lll with 13 steals per game as a team.


About the Yellowjackets
Record: 6-2, 3-1 WIAC

  • The Yellowjackets have opened up the year 6-2 and have won four of their last five.
  • UW-Superior is a perfect 3-0 at home this season.
  • UWS is coming off a 73-65 victory over UW-Eau Claire on Wednesday night, a team it had not beaten since December 15, 1987.
  • Also, earlier this season, the 'jackets knocked off then third-ranked UW-Stevens Point at the Mertz.
  • Sally Linzmeier has led UWS in scoring and rebounding in four of eight games this season.
  • Linzmeier leads a trio of Yellowjackets in double-digit scoring with 20.0 per contest. Connie Urmanski and Deandra Vavra are averaging 12.8 and 10.3, respectively.
  • Linzmeier is ranked in the top 35 in the nation in three statistical categories: Points per game (20.0, 32nd), steals per game (4, 14th) and field-goal percentage (55.6%, 31st)'
  • As a team, UW-Superior is ninth nationally shooting 77.3 percent from the free throw line.

Series History: (CSS is 24-19 all-time vs. UW-Superior)
  • CSS and UWS have split the last four games played between the two teams that included one of those Saints victories coming in Superior.
  • UWS had five players score in double digits last year in an 82-68 victory.
  • Hovick and Kayla Heisler (Remer, Minn./Northland HS) led the way with 16 and 14 points, respectively.
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