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Last weekend's split
with Southwestern and Trinity leaves the Lady Majors (9-11, 4-6)
in sixth place in the SCAC standings needing only to be in the top
eight to make the conference tourney later this month.
The Majors
host a Rose-Hulman team Friday that is one game behind the Majors
and currently occupies the seventh place slot for the SCAC tournament.
The Majors handed
the Lady Engineers a 65-56 loss in Terre Haute on January 7th. Jillian
Compton scored a season-high 21 points on 50 percent shooting and
Miranda Rosar added 16 points and nine boards.
The Lady
Engineers (10-11, 3-7) enter this game on a four-game losing
skid.
They are led
by 510 forward, Rebeka Forsyth (16.7 ppg, 10.7 rpg), the only
player in the SCAC that averages a double-double. Forsyth scored
17 points and pulled down 11 rebounds against the Lady Majors this
year and recently had a career game, scoring 27 points and pulling
down 16 rebounds in a 79-60 home loss to DePauw last weekend.
Guards Suzy
Carlson and Jill Floyd are averaging 13.9 and 13.1 points per contest
respectively. Carlson is shooting an even 50 percent from three-point
range, for the Engineers who average 64.2 points per game and give
up 63.
The road to
the tournament gets much rockier on Sunday with nationally ranked
(#10 USA Today, #14 D3hoops.com) DePauw (18-3, 9-1).
The Lady Tigers
are currently first in the standings, tied with Trinity, who defeated
DePauw 79-65 in San Antonio. The Lady Tigers crushed Millsaps on
December 9th in Greencastle, by a 72-31 count.
Millsaps shot
a miserable 11-of-52 (21.2 percent) from the floor and were outrebounded
53-26. Martha McDaniel was the lone Major in double-figures, with
10 points.
The Lady Tigers
are led by Amy Argetsinger (15.1 ppg, 5.0 rpg). The only other DePauw
player averaging double figures is Sarah Sondor, with 14.1 points
a game.
While there
are no spectacular individual statistics, the Lady Tigers have whipped
opponents by an average of 18 points, having the most productive
offense in the SCAC, averaging 73.7 points a game, and have also
been the second stingiest defense, holding opponents to 55.7 points.
DePauw shoots an impressive 46.1 percent from the field, while opponents
shoot a miserable 38.2 percent and turn the ball over 20 times a
game.
For the Lady
Majors, Sunday will mark the end of three senior's career on the
hardwood.
For four years,
guard Jillian Compton has rained 168 3-point shots down on opponents.
Compton scored her 1,000th point in the first game of the season
against Judson College and has tallied 1,164 points (7th all-time
at Millsaps) in her record breaking career. Compton's name is on
many other list for school records.
Also guards
Sheena Gardner and Sara Greer will play their last home games for
the Lady Majors. Greer is currently fourth on the Majors all-time
list with 267 assists.
The men tipoff
at noon, followed by the women at 2:00. DePauw will also broadcast
both games from their website.
Rose-Hulman will broadcast the men's game only.
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