Salve Regina sees Western New England on Thu.

Summary: Salve Regina University women's basketball hosts Western New England University in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (5:30 p.m. tip-off)

Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (7-8; 5-3 CCC) versus Western New England Golden Bears (7-7; 4-4 CCC)

Game date, time and site: Tue., Jan. 21, 2014; 5:30 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: Salve Regina leads, 6-5

Last Seahawk win in series: Salve Regina won 70-48 on January 10, 2013, in Newport

Last Golden Bears win in series: Western New England won 53-51 on January 29, 2013, in Springfield

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• Salve Regina leads, 6-5, in a series that began in 2002.
• The teams split last year's meetings, both winning on respective home courts.
• Nursing a two-point lead (35-33) at the half on January 10, 2013, Salve Regina held visiting Western New England to 15 second-half points and delivered Cori Hughes her 100th career victory as head coach of the Seahawks. Meaghan Harden delivered a then career-high 26 points; Cortney Rosenlund came off the bench to score a then career-high 11 points. Salve Regina finished the game on a 20-0 run.
• A driving layup by Emily Savino with 13 seconds remaining in the game lifted the Western New England to a 53-51 victory against Salve Regina less than three weeks later (January 29, 2013). Savino finished with 17 points while Harden led all players with 19 points. Marissa Pendergast had a double-double for the Seahawks (14 pts, 12 rebs).

• Curry took its biggest lead of the game (46-38) after Kylie Beltz sank another shot from beyond the arc with 13:52 left in regulation.
• The Seahawks answered with a 20-4 run that started with a converted three-point play by Marissa Pendergast and was capped off with a layup by Meaghan Harden with 6:46 on the clock.
• Pendergast led all scorers with 20 points, while also pulling down 12 rebounds. Brianna Del Valle had a career-high 22 rebounds and chipped in with 17 points. Harden scored 18 points, while Laura Anne Dinan added 10.

• Ali Pessolano scored 12 points and Katie Eckert made five free throws late to lead Western New England to a 53-49 road upset of Endicott on Saturday.
• The visiting Golden Bears even their record to 7-7 overall and 4-4 in the CCC, while the Gulls slip to 10-4 and 6-2.
• The senior captains' leadership was invaluable in the victory despite being out-rebounded 42-30.
• Pessolano drained a 3-pointer from the right elbow for a 48-42 lead with two minutes and 53 seconds left in the game, and Eckert scored her only points of the afternoon by going 5-for-6 at the charity stripe down the stretch to seal it.
• Samantha Crough and Kayleen Whall paced Endicott with 16 and 12 points, respectively.
• Both teams made 18 field goals and 11 free throws but WNE's perimeter game was better as the Golden Bears made six 3-pointers to Endicott's two.

• With its .500 record overall and in conference play, Western New England has no win streak or loss streak greater than two.
• Chelsea Vujs leads the Golden Bears in scoring (12.9 ppg; 10th in league) and ranks first in the CCC in rebounding (10.1 rpg).
• The Golden Bears are two games below .500 away from their home court in 2013-14.
• Western New England has made two more 3-pointers per game than Salve Regina (4.4 to 2.1).

• Salve Regina is 7-5 all-time in games on January 21
• The Seahawks hosted the Hawks on this date in 2012 amid a Saturday snowstorm and stormed to a 61-30 victory. During a 12-0 run over a 3:41 first-half stretch, five different Seahawks had field goals including a 3-pointer from Lisa Bucci. Kaitlyn Birrell had 11 points by halftime and was joined among the leaders by teammate Marissa Pendergast with nine points.

• 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.