DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's basketball team will play its final game of the season and it will also be the final game for six Saints as Crown College visits the Reif Gymnasium Saturday.
Where:
Reif Gymnasium – Duluth, Minn.
When:
Saturday at 3 p.m.
Live Video: https://csssaints.com/watch/?Live=278
Live Stats: https://csssaints.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 7-16, 6-9 UMAC
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Standings | Stats
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-The Saints will honor six players playing their final collegiate game on Saturday:
Zoe Bystrom (Cook, Minn./North Woods HS (Hibbing CC)),
Danielle Cieluch (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS),
Taylor Nowling (Mora, Minn./Mora HS),
Mariah Pearson (Blaine, Minn./Blaine HS),
Amber Smith (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS (Itasca CC)) and
Michala Walther (Roseville, Minn./Concordia Academy).
-CSS is coming off an eight-point win at Northland College on Saturday.
-Walther scored 20 points for the second straight game and became the eighth player in program history to reach 1,100 career points.
-Walther has scored in double-figures in 10 straight games.
-Cieluch eclipsed 500 career points and reached 500 rebounds in the win.
-She also recorded four blocked shots to give her 22 the last four games; she has 19 more blocks than the next-highest total in the UMAC.
-Her 68 blocks rank in the top 10 of NCAA Division III.
-The Saints as a team have 100 blocked shots this season, the first time that has happed since the 2010-11 season.
-The program record for blocks in a season is 106, done twice.
-Sophomore
Kaylee Kennedy (Littlefork, Minn./Littlefork-Big Falls HS) continues to lead the team, averaging 13.9 points per game.
What You Need to Know about Crown:
Overall Record: 4-20, 2-13 UMAC
-The Storm have conference wins over Martin Luther College and Northland this season, both taking place on the road.
-In fact, three of their four wins have taken place away from St. Bonifacius.
-Crown averages the fewest points per game in the league (43.4).
-It has made a conference-low 44, 3-pointers.
-Damonyka Roberts leads the team in scoring, averaging 7.3 points per game.
-Patricia Gibson ranks sixth in the UMAC, averaging 6.8 rebounds per game.
Series Record: CSS leads 40-0
(Last Meeting: 79-42 CSS – 1/12/2019)
Series History: The Saints have won 39 of the 40 meetings by double-figures.
Looking Ahead: The 2018-19 season comes to end.
