Seahawks begin second half of CCC schedule

Summary: Salve Regina University men's basketball hosts Roger Williams University in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (3 p.m. tip-off)

Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (11-5; 6-3 CCC) versus Roger Williams Hawks (5-11; 4-5 CCC)

Game date, time and site: Sat., Jan. 25, 2014; 3 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; Bobb Angel provides the call in simulcast with WADK-AM)

Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM

Tickets: Free admission

Series edge: Salve Regina leads, 35-26

Last Seahawk win in series: Salve Regina won 83-79 on December 7, 2013, in Bristol

Last Hawk win in series: Roger Williams won 75-72 on January 21, 2012, in Newport

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• Salve Regina leads, 35-26, in a series that began in 1982.
• The Seahawks have won the last four meetings including a come-from-behind victory last December in Bristol.
• The game was fairly close early on, with seven ties and four lead changes in the first half alone. Salve Regina led by as many as nine in the opening period, with Jeff Bielefeld laying in a basket with 6:06 left to give the Seahawks a 32-23 lead.
• The Hawks pulled away from Salve Regina early on in the second half, using a 14-4 run over the first four minutes to take a commanding 12-point lead (54-42). Salve Regina chipped away at the deficit but the Hawks continued to remain in front for most of the period, with its largest lead a 72-58 advantage with 7:30 to play.
  
• Barrett Hanlon (team-high 21 points) put in a crucial basket after a Hawk miss to give the Seahawks a four-point lead. Salve Regina sank four of its final six free throws to help seal the game.
  
• Salve Regina has faced Roger Williams more than any other school in men's basketball; this is the 62nd meeting.

• Salve Regina has become unwillingly familiar with second-half collapses in its last two games, surviving an overtime battle with Curry last Saturday after a 17-point halftime cushion before scoring only 15 points in the second half against the Golden Bears on Thursday, letting a 12-point halftime lead slip away.
• Patrick Dinneen led all scorers with 22 points and closed within a dozen of the 1,000-point milestone.
• Jeff Bielefeld led all players with his nine rebounds, and he added 13 points.
• Western New England opened the second half on a 20-2 run.

• Roger Williams ended Gordon's five-game win streak which included a one-point victory at Salve Regina two weeks ago.
• Zac Campbell had the best game of his young career, scoring a game-high 22 points to lead the upstart Hawks.
  
• Ryan Palumbo was 10-for-10 from the charity stripe and finished with 12 total points. Joseph Henry was the only other Hawks' player in double figures with 10 points, making four of his five attempts.
  

• Ryan Palumbo ranks third in the league in assists (3.6 apg) and leads the Hawks in scoring with 14.5 points per game.
• Roger Williams has the second-best free-throw percentage (72.6%) in the league and commit the fewest fouls per game in the CCC (16.4).

• Salve Regina's 34-point victory in its home opener over Connecticut College on November 19, 2013, represents its largest margin of victory in a home game for the Seahawks since an 86-51 win against visiting Lesley on December 6, 2008.
• Salve Regina's largest margin of victory ever (51 points) came on February 12, 1995, in a 124-73 win against New England College at Rogers High School gymnasium (Newport, R.I.).
• The Seahawks have outscored their opponents in the Rodgers Recreation Center by 53 points (414-361), suffering a one-point loss 10 days ago to Gordon College (71-70) and a five-point setback to Western New England (63-58) on Thursday.

• Salve Regina men's basketball is playing for the 13th time on January 25.
• The Seahawks earned their fourth-ever victory on this date the last time played in 2012, 71-64 at Endicott.

• 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." 

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

• Roger Williams point guard Ryan Palumbo ranks third in assists but no other Hawk player appears in the top five in any other category.
• Jeff Bielefeld ranks third with 9.0 rebounds per game and second in field goal percentage (55.1%).
• Barrett Hanlon ranks third in the league in scoring (17.5 ppg) and is two spots behind Bielefeld in field goal percentage (52.4%).
• Salve Regina ranks second in the CCC in steals per game (8.4 spg) while Western New England owns the league's best rebounding margin (+5.8 per game).

• Salve Regina hosts Wentworth Institute of Technology on Wednesday for the second meeting of the season between the Seahawks and Leopards.
• Roger Williams hosts Nichols College on the same day.

• Jeff Bielefeld leads the Seahawks with seven 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 is in his 12th season as the head coach, the winningest in the history of the Seahawks (151-157; .490).
• 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 now has 988 career points, ranking 17th on the school's all-time scoring list for men's basketball, recently passing Roy Jansen (984), Chris Collier (970), and Dan Royce (958). His next two points will tie him with Eric Lehane (990) who is the last hurdle before reaching the 1,000-point milestone.