Posted: Feb 13, 2015

Neptune necessitates earlier start for basketball

Rodgers Recreation Center, built in 2000, will be site for two CCC basketball games (12 and 2 p.m.) on Saturday.

NEWPORT, R.I. - With blizzard watches already issued for the entire east coast of New England, Salve Regina University women's and men's basketball games with Gordon College on Saturday, February 14, have been moved an hour earlier at the Rodgers Recreation Center.

Winter Storm Neptune comes on the heels of an almost three-week snow siege that has smashed records in parts of New England, and impacting Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) schedules.

Salve Regina women's basketball (11-11; 8-7 CCC) hosts Gordon (3-19; 1-14 CCC) at noon, and is set to honor three Seahawk seniors - Brianna Del Valle (Belchertown, Mass.), Laura Anne Dinan (Monterey, Mass.), and Cortney Rosenlund (Whitinsville, Mass.). The Seahawks defeated the Scots in double overtime, 68-64, on January 10 in Wenham, Mass.

Salve Regina men's basketball (5-17; 2-13 CCC) hosts Gordon (10-12; 7-8 CCC) at 2 p.m. on the Rodgers Recreation Center hardwood. The Seahawks defeated the Scots, 79-76, last month in Wenham, Mass., for their first conference victory of the season. Chris O'Keefe (Lexington, Mass.) sparked the Seahawks with 18 points off the bench.

Both games will be broadcast on WADK-AM 1540 and wadk.com with Bobb Angel and John Dias on the call, while also video streamed on Salve Regina's website at http://www.salveathletics.com/sports/wbkb/2014-15/videos/livevideo_20150214 [WOMEN] and http://www.salveathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/videos/livevideo_20150214 [MEN].