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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - With five Commonwealth Conference playoff slots up for grabs this season and six teams within two games of fourth place in the league as the first half of the conference season wraps up, the Lycoming College women’s basketball team will find itself in a critical showdown with Albright, who is tied for fifth place with the Warriors, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 16, in Reading.

The Warriors (3-11 overall, 3-5 Commonwealth) are coming off a key 57-55 overtime win over Stevenson on Saturday, Jan. 12, buoying the team’s playoff hopes and putting them in a fifth-place tie with Albright (7-8 overall, 3-5 Commonwealth), who fell to Lebanon Valley, 69-51, on Saturday.

Lycoming got a great performance from freshman Olivia Manges on Saturday, as she scored a career-high 20 to lead the team to the overtime win.

Warrior Notes
• The Warriors have won the last six meetings against Albright, but by an average margin of just five points.

• With her 20 points against Stevenson, freshman Olivia Manges became the first Warrior rookie to score 20 in a game since junior Julia Antonelli reached the mark twice in 2011.

• Antonelli needs 24 more points to become the 20th player in school history to reach 700 in a career.

• With 196 career steals, senior Rachael Scheller needs four more thefts to become the third player in school history to reach 200 in a career.

• Scheller leads the Commonwealth Conference with an average of 3.07 steals per game.

• Freshman Shannon Wheeler needs two points and classmate Manges needs 14 points to reach 100 in their careers.

• Sophomore Janelle Ziminski has scored five or more points in six games this year.