Salve Regina home for the first time in 2013-14
| Final | 1 | 2 | T | |
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Mass.-Boston (8-2) | 28 | 32 | 60 |
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Salve Regina (3-5) | 22 | 32 | 54 |
Note: GAME TIME MOVED TO 1:00 P.M. WITH
FORECASTED SNOWSTORM
Summary: Salve Regina University women's basketball opens its 2013-14 home schedule with UMass Boston in a non-league meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (1 p.m. tip-off).
Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (3-4) versus UMass Boston Beacons (7-2)
Game date, time and site: Thu., Jan. 2, 2014; 1 p.m. @ Newport, R.I. (Rodgers Recreation Center)
Live stats: http://livestats.prestosports.com/salveregina
Video/Audio: http://bit.ly/VnaNCV (Salve Regina women's basketball channel on ustream.tv; Andrew Pezzelli provides the call)
Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM
Tickets: Free admission
Series edge: Third meeting all-time; both teams have one win apiece
Last Seahawk win in series: 89-36 on November 20, 1998, in season-opener at Pine Manor Classic; at the time it marked the third occasion Salve Regina had a 53-point victory margin, its largest ever until a 55-point win over Wentworth three years later.
Last Beacon win in series: 52-50 on December 6, 2007; only the second loss for Cori Hughes in her career as Salve Regina women's basketball head coach
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- This is the third-ever meeting between the Seahawks and Beacons in women's basketball.
- In their first ever meeting, the Seahawks defeated the Beacons by a program-record 53 points (89-36) on November 20, 1998.
- Salve Regina seniors Allison Moen (13 points) and Kristen Stone (11 points) both scored in double figures during a 52-50 loss in Boston on December 6, 2007.
- The Seahawks were led by Brianna Del Valle, who finished with 14 points and 10 rebounds in the loss.
- Meanwhile, Meaghan Harden posted a team-high 16 points to go along with a pair of rebounds.
- The Beacons had a dozen offensive rebounds after their first 14 missed shots (12-for-26).
- Olivia Murphy had a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
- Shelby Buck and Kirsten Morrison came off the bench and scored 11 and 10 points, respectively.
- Salve Regina won its first-ever January 2 game in the opening round of the 2009 Holiday Inn/Naismith Classic, 50-46, against the host school at Springfield College's James Naismith Court in Blake Arena.
- The Seahawks subsequently lost on this date in 2010 and 2012 both times in Maine, first against St. Joseph's in a Bowdoin College tournament and then against Maine Maritime in the Mariners' tournament in Castine.
- This is the first doubleheader Salve Regina has hosted on this date.
- Salve Regina has played once on January 1, just last year, and won 78-55 against Rivier College. A snowstorm had postponed the Raiders' tournament from the last two days of 2012 and brought the title game into the New Year 2013.
- Please click here for an individual career history report (pdf) for the entire 2013-14 Salve Regina women's basketball roster.
- Seniors Lisa Bucci, Marissa Pendergast, and Taylor Windwer share the captains' duties for the 2013-14 Salve Regina women's basketball team.
- Seventh-year head coach Cori Hughes remarks: "All three of our senior captains are really positive, unselfish, and lead by example," says Hughes, in her seventh year. "But they are also really different personalities, and each fulfill an important role as a leader on this team."
- The Seahawks have reached the CCC Championship Game in all three seasons with their current senior class.
- Salve Regina ranks third in the conference's pre-season coaches' poll, released on Thursday, November 14, 2013.
- University of New England received first-place votes from all 10 head coaches.
- Roger Williams (85) edged out Salve Regina (83) in points for second-place in the poll.
- The Seahawks lost two regular-season meetings to the Hawks last season before upsetting them in the CCC semifinals.
TEAM - POINTS (FIRST-PLACE VOTES)
1. U. of New England - 100 (10)
2. Roger Williams - 85
3. Salve Regina - 83
4. Endicott - 68
5. Western New Eng. - 64
6. Curry - 44
7. Eastern Nazarene - 37
8. Nichols - 28
8. Wentworth - 28
10. Gordon - 13
- Meaghan Harden ranks second in the Commonwealth Coast Conference in scoring while Brianna Del Valle ranks third in field goal percentage.
- 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 Beacons continue their travels on Monday at Brandeis University.
- Marissa Pendergast and Brianna Del Valle both have a pair of double-doubles on the season.
- Pendergast has recorded both of her double-doubles while teammates were doing the same, once with Del Valle and the other time with Meaghan Harden.
- Under Cori Hughes' direction, Salve Regina has won three Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championships in six years while compiling a won-loss record of 114-60 (.655).
- Marissa Pendergast enters 2014 with 934 career points, ranking 12th on the school's all-time scoring list.
- She aims to become the 12th women's basketball player to reach the 1,000-point milestone.
- With a career scoring average of 10.5 points per game, Pendergast ranks 14th all-time on the school's scoring average list, ahead of recently graduated Kaitlyn Birrell (23rd with 9.0 ppg), who reached 1,002 career points in last season's ECAC Division III New England Championships quarterfinal loss at Wellesley.
- 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).
