Salve Regina welcomes Curry again

Summary: Salve Regina University women's basketball hosts Curry College in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championships quarterfinal meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (6 p.m. tip-off)

Match-up: #4/Salve Regina Seahawks (13-12; 11-7 2CCC) versus #5/Curry Colonels (13-12; 9-9 CCC)

Game date, time and site:  Tue., Feb. 25, 2014; 6 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)

CCC Tournament Interactive Bracket: http://bit.ly/MWew9J

Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM

Tickets: $4/adults; $2/children under 12; FREE/students with ID

Series edge: Salve Regina leads, 43-15

Last Seahawk win in series:  Salve Regina won, 70-57, on February 22, 2014, in Newport, R.I.

Last Colonel win in series: Curry won, 77-64, on February 11, 2003, in Milton, Mass.

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• Head coach Cori Hughes: "It's a new season come playoff time, and past results mean nothing now. Curry is a tough and talented team, and it's always a battle when we face them. We need to make some adjustments on both ends of the floor to shore up offensively and defensively. Then, we have to show up, and play hard and smart for 40 minutes."
• Salve Regina has reached the CCC finals three straight seasons, winning in 2011 and 2012.

• Salve Regina leads, 43-15, in a series that began in 1983.
• Salve Regina has won 20 consecutive meetings.
• In their most recent meeting (Feb. 22, 2014), the Seahawks rallied for a 70-57 victory against the Colonels at the Rodgers Recreation Center. Laura Anne Dinan's buzzer-beater in the first half climaxed a 14-2 run for the Seahawks which put them on top, 37-36, at the break.
• Salve Regina faced Curry in a 2012 quarterfinal matchup, winning 54-32. The Seahawks were lead by Kaitlyn Birrell (Hope, R.I.) who scored 17 points, and Lindsay Shorey (Ashland, Mass.) who set a program record with 14 blocked shots.
• In a 2012 playoff loss to Salve Regina, Curry was led by Kylie Beltz (Pequot Lakes, Minn.) who scored a team-high 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the floor. Hailey Rafferty (Worcester Mass.) grabbed nine rebounds, while Katie King (Dorcheter, Mass.) led the Colonels with six steals.

• Meaghan Harden (Sandwich, Mass.) finishes the regular season leading the CCC in scoring, averaging 19.2 points per game.
• Marissa Pendergast (Medfield, Mass.) also finishes atop the CCC in rebounding, averaging 10.3 per game. Pendergast is averaging a double-double effort for the regular season as well, averaging 13.1 points per game.
• Brianna Del Valle (Belchertown, Mass.) ranks fifth in the league in field goal shooting percentage (44.9%).

• Ashley Assarian ranks second in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (41.0%).
• Kylie Betz is the Colonels' leading scorer (15.6 ppg), the only one on the roster htting double figures in points. Jeannette Fallon (9.3 ppg) and Ashley Assarian (8.7 ppg) are next on the scoring chart.
• Shannon Griffith leads Curry in rebounds, grabbing 6.7 per game.
• Curry has lost four straight - all against the top four in the conference. Earlier this season the Colonels had a four-game losing streak - also against the top four in the conference including their loss to the Seahawks.

• Salve Regina women's basketball is 2-3 all-time on February 25.
• This includes two appearances in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship game. On February 25, 1995, the Seahawks lost a 69-52 decision to Regis College at Rogers High School (Newport, R.I.); on February 25, 2012, the Seahawks captured their second straight, and third in four years, when they defeated Endicott, 77-61, at the Rodgers Recreation Center.

• Please click here for an up-to-date 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.