Salve Regina hosts Middlebury College

Summary: Salve Regina University men's basketball
hosts Middlebury College in a non-league meeting at the Rodgers
Recreation Center (4 p.m. tip-off).
Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (6-2) versus Middlebury Panthers (6-2)
Game date, time and site: Thu., Jan. 2, 2014; 4 p.m. @ Newport, R.I. (Rodgers Recreation Center)
Live stats: http://livestats.prestosports.com/salveregina
Video/Audio: http://bit.ly/19Mpnue (Salve Regina men's basketball channel on ustream.tv; Andrew Pezzelli provides the call)
Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM
Tickets: Free admission
Series edge: First-ever meeting between Seahawks and Panthers in men's basketball
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- This is the first-ever meeting between the Seahawks and Panthers in men's basketball.
- Salve Regina and Middlebury meet next week in Vermont for a women's ice hockey game.
- Barrett Hanlon poured in a game-high 20 points to go along with four rebounds, four assists and four steals for Salve Regina, which suffered its first loss of the season to a Division III opponent.
- Jeff Bielefeld registered 14 points, 10 rebounds and two steals for the visitors, while Patrick Dinneen finished with 16 points, five rebounds and two assists.
- Nicholas Bates contributed with four points, eight rebounds, five assists, one block and one steal.
- Matt St. Amour and Joey Kizel scored 27 and 24 points, respectively, to lead the Panthers against the Greyhounds in Saratoga, N.Y.
- Middlebury had four players with at least five rebounds including Jack Roberts and Jake Nidenberg in addition to St. Amour and Kizel.
- This is the fourth time Salve Regina men's basketball has played on January 2.
- Previously, the Seahawks have won two meetings on this date with both coming in home victories against Coast Guard (2011 and 2013).
- Their only defeat on this date came at Springfield in 2010.
- This is the first doubleheader Salve Regina has hosted on this date.
- Salve Regina has never played on January 1.
- Please click here for an individual career history report (pdf) for the entire 2013-14 Salve Regina men's basketball roster.
- Seniors Jeff Bielefeld and Joshua Hohlfelder share captains' duties for the 2013-14 season.
- 12th-year head coach Sean Foster remarks: "Our staff is excited to have such dynamic leadership going into the 2013-14 season. Jeff and Josh are tremendous people, excellent students and hard-working athletes. Their positive example will be extremely beneficial to our younger players."
- Salve Regina ranks fifth in the conference's pre-season coaches' poll, released on Friday.
- Gordon and Curry both received four first-place votes, but the Scots edged the Colonels in total points.
- Salve Regina finished just ahead of Eastern Nazarene in the poll, a team the Seahawks lost to in first-round action of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Men's Basketball Championships last season.
TEAM - POINTS (FIRST-PLACE VOTES)
1. Gordon - 90 (4)
2. Curry - 89 (4)
3. Endicott - 81 (2)
4. Nichols - 64
5. Salve Regina - 51
6. Eastern Nazarene - 49
7. Roger Williams - 40
7. Wentworth - 40
9. U. of New England - 28
10. Western New Eng. - 18
- Barrett Hanlon ranks third in the Commonwealth Coast Conference in scoring while Jeff Bielefeld ranks third in rebounding.
- Salve Regina resumes its conference schedule with a home doubleheader against Nichols College on Saturday (women at 1 p.m. and men at 3 p.m.). Both games broadcast on the Salve Regina athletics ustream.tv network with Bobb Angel of WADK-AM 1540 providing the play-by-play call.
- The Panthers host Plattsburgh State next Tuesday in Middlebury, Vt.
- Jeff Bielefeld leads the Seahawks with four double-doubles on the season.
- Nicholas Bates has the only other double-double for the Seahawks, posting the first of his career in his first home game.
- Sean Foster enters his 12th season as the head coach, the winningest in the history of the Seahawks (146-157; .487).
- His 4-0 start for the 2013-14 season marked the best in program history.
- Foster welcomes new assistants Matt Adams and Tyler Hundley to his coaching staff.
- Patrick Dinneen enters 2014 with 847 career points, ranking 24th on the school's all-time scoring list for men's basketball.
- Players closest to the 1,000-point career milestone in Seahawk uniforms are both seniors from Medfield, Mass. - Marissa Pendergast (934) and Patrick Dinneen (847).