JANUARY 16, 2012
KING'S WOMEN LOOKING TO MAINTAIN STREAK AGAINST WILKES
WILKES-BARRE — The King's College women's basketball team returns to Freedom Conference action Wednesday night as the Lady Monarchs resume its cross-town rivalry with Wilkes University. Tip-off is slated for 6:00 p.m. in Scandlon Gymnasium.
Fans unable to attend can follow the action on LiveStats at the following link:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/kings/wbball/index.htm
WRKC, 88.5 FM will also broadcast the game and will provide an audio webstream over the Internet. The link to the broadcast is:
http://wrkc.kings.edu/list/current.html
King's enters the game with a 12-3 record after a 70-53 victory over Keystone Monday night. Wilkes stands at 4-10 overall and 0-4 in league games after a 80-53 loss at Manhattanville on Saturday.
The Lady Monarchs are hoping to continue the supremacy it has maintained over Wilkes over the last 13 years. After sweeping last year's season series, King's has won 26 of the last 27 meetings between the teams. Wilkes last victory over King's was a 65-61 win on January 29, 2009. A year ago, the Lady Monarchs won the first meeting in a 89-72 shootout at Wilkes before winning on the final day of the regular-season 76-35 in Scandlon Gym.
The Lady Monarchs have displayed consistent balance throughout the season as seven different players have led the team in game scoring this season. Senior guard-forward
Paige Carlin currently tops the squad with 11.7 points and 4.2 rebounds per-game. Senior forward
Samantha Simcox follows with 11.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 3.1 steals. Junior guard
Celia Rader adds 10.6 points, 2.9 rebounds, and a team-high 30 three-pointers while junior guard
Katlin Michaels contributes 8.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.7 assists, and 2.2 steals.
Freshman center
Marissa Manning averages 7.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, and a team-high 19 blocked shots while junior forward
Lindsay Atchison posts 6.5 points and 3.1 rebounds. Senior guard
Brittany Muscatell chips in with 4.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 2.6 assists. King's averages 67.8 points per-game while yielding just 58.4 each contest.
Ironically, in Wilkes last victory over King's in 2009, the Lady Colonels were led in the game by a 28-point, nine-rebound effort by then-freshman
Samantha Simcox. Simcox would sit our her sophomore year at Wilkes before transferring to King's in the 2010 fall semester. Simcox played in 25 games as a reserve last season at King's where she averaged 4.6 points and 5.0 rebounds. This season, she has started all 15 games at King's where she ranks second on the team in scoring and first in rebounds and steals.
Wilkes is in a rebuilding phase after the hiring of first-year coach Chris Heery, a former assistant coach at Muhlenberg College. The Lady Colonels started out the year 3-0 but lost its next three games to stand at 3-3. After winning its next game to improve to 4-3, Wilkes has dropped its last seven contests.
The Lady Colonels are led by junior guard Megan Kazmerski who comes off a career-high 27-point performance against Manhattanville. Kazmerski tops the Lady Colonels with 13.5 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per-game while connecting on 25 three-pointers. Freshman guard Elena Stambone follows with 11.7 points and 2.5 rebounds with 19 three-pointers.
Senior guard Whitney Connolly, adds 8.9 points and 2.6 rebounds while freshman forward Allison Walsh contributes 7.9 points and 7.3 rebounds. Connolly stands as the only player on the Wilkes roster who was a member of the Lady Colonel squad that defeated King's in 2009.
Freshman forward Chelsea Brown tallies 5.2 points and 6.5 boards; junior guard Angela Palmerio has posted 5.1 points and 2.3 boards, while junior guard Amanda Pawlowski chips in with 4.2 points and 5.7 assists each contest. The Lady Colonels average 65.8 points per-game while allowing 68.1 each contest.
King's and the Lady Colonels will not meet again until the teams play in their regular-season finale on February 18 in the Wilkes Marts Center.
