Seahawks host Bison in CCC tilt

Summary: Salve Regina University women's basketball hosts Nichols College in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (1 p.m. tip-off)

Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (3-5; 1-1 CCC) versus Nichols Bison (6-2; 1-1 CCC)

Game date, time and site: Sat., Jan. 4, 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; Bobb Angel provides the call in simulcast with WADK-AM)

Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM

Tickets: Free admission

Series edge: Salve Regina leads, 28-9

Last Seahawk win in series: Salve Regina won 63-47 on February 12, 2013, in Dudley.

Last Bison win in series: Nichols won 67-56 on January 21, 2009, in Newport.

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• Salve Regina has won 28 of 37 meetings with Nichols, including the last seven straight.
• The Seahawks had won eight straight against the Bison from 1992 through 2001.
• When the Bison beat the Seahawks, 60-58, on February 9, 2002, they ended a then program-record 12-game win streak for Salve Regina.
• Nichols' last win in the series (67-56 in Newport on January 21, 2009) came in the 2008-09 regular season when the Bison earned the No. 1 seed in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championships. Salve Regina was the No. 5 seed that season and won three playoff games on the road, including an upset 60-45 score in Dudley over the Bison, to claim its seventh overall title.
• In their last meeting, Meaghan Harden led all scorers with 25 points as Salve Regina University won its fourth-straight to improve to 14-9 (11-5) with a 63-47 triumph over Nichols College in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) women's basketball action Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at the Nichols Athletic Center.
• Kasey Pelletier scored a team-high 16 points in the Bison loss. Devon Spirka recorded her first collegiate double-double with 11 points and 10 boards as the Bison fell to 6-17 (3-12 CCC) with the loss.
• The two schools combined to miss the first 10 shots of the game and 16 of the first 18 shots overall.
• With the score tied at four less than six minutes into the opening stanza, the Seahawks went on a 10-0 run behind four points from Kaitlyn Birrell to open up a 14-4 lead. Salve Regina closed the half on 9-0 run to take a 30-14 lead to the locker room.

• Brianna Del Valle scored 12 of her team-high 14 points in the second half but it was not enough as the Salve Regina University women's basketball team fell to visiting UMass Boston, 60-54, in non-league action at the Rodgers Recreation Center.
• The game went scoreless for the first three minutes until Beacons sophomore forward Olivia Murphy connected on a layup at 16:34.
• All 28 first-half points for UMass Boston came from inside the paint. The Beacons were 0-for-7 from behind the arc in the first 20 minutes and misfired on all three free-throw attempts.
• Seahawk freshman guard Kelsey Kennedy came off the bench and immediately made an impact with her 3-pointer at 13:39 to give her team an 8-6 lead.

• Senior captain Kasey Pelletier recorded a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds in Nichols College's 64-39 win over Lyndon State in non-conference women's basketball action December 10, 2013, at Stannard Gymnasium.
• Junior captain Alexis Wegrzynek scored 14 points to lead the Bison (6-2) to their second-straight win.
• Senior captain Devon Spirka chipped in with nine points, five boards and two dimes while junior Amber Litwinko and freshman Julia Zawacki each netted eight points.
• Since its last time out, Nichols has added 6'2" forward Elizabeth McKinley, a sophomore transfer who last played at Southern Connecticut University.

• Salve Regina women's basketball has played only once before on this date, defeating Fitchburg State by two points on the road, 50-48, on January 4, 2011.
• Lisa Bucci started in the victory as a first-year guard.
• Marissa Pendergast came off the bench to score four points.
• This is the first conference game for the Seahawks on January 4.

• 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.