WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -Â After suffering its worst loss of the season at Messiah in November, the Lycoming College women's basketball team will take another shot at the 25th-ranked team in the country, this time on Lycoming's home floor, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m.
The Warriors (11-6 overall, 5-4 MAC Commonwealth) are coming off a 56-52 come-from-behind win, where they were led by junior
Shelby Mueller, who had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and freshman
Kayla Kline, who had 11 points and seven rebounds in the win.
The Falcons (16-1 overall, 7-1 MAC Commonwealth) are playing their first game in a week after posting an 85-79 overtime win against Lebanon Valley, where sophomore Maci Thornton, sophomore Alecia Rohrer and senior Gillian Glackin all finished with 16 points.
Warrior Notes
• The Warriors need one more win to clinch their fourth straight .500 season, the longest stretch for the program since a five-year run from 1993-98.
• Senior
Nicole Calella is 14 points shy of becoming the 25th player in school history to reach 700 career points.
• Freshman
Akilah McFadden needs seven more points to become the first Warrior rookie since junior
Shelby Mueller in 2014-15 to reach 200 points.
• Mueller's seven double-doubles this year are tied for seventh in the program's single-season history.
• McFadden is third amongst MAC Commonwealth freshmen in scoring (11.5) and
Kayla Kline is fourth (9.2).
• The team's 67.8 scoring average is the highest since the 1997-98 Warriors averaged 68.2 points per game.