Women's Basketball | 12/31/2014 10:50:00 AM

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Game Program: Seton Hill / California

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LAST TIME OUT

• The Huskies suffered a 67-53 setback at home vs. No. 25 IUP on Dec. 20. Bloomsburg trailed by nine early, but battled back to lead by a point before the Crimson Hawks hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to take a 32-30 lead into halftime. The Huskies led in the opening minutes of the second half, but a 12-0 run by the Hawks midway through the period gave IUP control.
• Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) led the Huskies in scoring with 13 points.
• Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) scored in double figures for the third straight game with 12 points.
• Bloomsburg struggled to 2-of-17 shooting from beyond the arc vs. IUP.

SCOUTING SETON HILL
Seton Hill will seek to get back to .500 for the year in Saturday's game after finishing the 2014 portion of the schedule at 5-6 overall including a 2-4 mark in the PSAC. The Griffins have won two of their last three games, however, scoring PSAC wins at home over Kutztown (54-49) and Mansfield (77-69) back-to-back on Dec. 16-17 before dropping a 61-47 decision at Lock Haven on Dec. 20.
 
Seton Hill ranks seventh in the PSAC in scoring at 69.4 ppg and 12th in scoring defense,
surrendering 66.0 ppg. The Griffins are adept at thefts, ranking second in the PSAC with 11.3 per game.
 
Freshman guard Alexandra Hay stands fourth in the PSAC in assists per game (4.5 apg) and graduate student Chelsea Apke is tied sixth in the league in rebound­ing (9.3 rpg).
 
LAST MEETING / SERIES HISTORY
Bloomsburg leads 1-0
This will mark the Huskies and Griffins first meeting as PSAC opponents. The only prior meeting between the teams came on Nov. 12, 2011 in Shepherdstown, West Va., when Seton Hill was a member of the former West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC). The Huskies scored a 71-60 win that day behind a game-high 20 points from Kelsey Gallagher while Kayla Oxenrider added 15. Only one player on the active roster saw time that day for Bloomsburg – now senior Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) had two steals in nine minutes off the bench.
 
SCOUTING CALIFORNIA (PA)
The Vulcans finished 2014 red hot, winning six straight games to earn a national ranking of No. 23 in the Dec. 16 edition of the USA Today/WBCA Division II Top 25.
 
Cal U's only loss came out of conference at home vs. Findlay, 74-66, on Nov. 25. The Vulcans began PSAC crossover play with victories over Shippensburg (62-47), Kutztown (74-66) and Mansfield (83-43). Cal earlier scored wins over a pair of nationally ranked teams - a 78-68 win at home over No. 18 West Liberty and an eyebrow-raising 76-48 thumping at then-No. 6 Edinboro on Nov. 22.

Cal ranks fourth in the PSAC in scoring at 75.9 points per game and second in defense, allowing just 58.8 points per contest.
 
Senior Emma Mahady ranks sixth in the PSAC in scoring at 16.5 ppg while sophomore Miki Glenn is ninth at 15.5 ppg.
 
LAST MEETING / SERIES HISTORY
Cal U leads 11-8
The Huskies have won the past two meetings with the Vulcans, taking a 77-68 victory on Dec. 4, 2011 at Cal U and then won again on the road, 63-61, on Dec. 19, 2012. In the last meeting, Catherine Noack (Bethlehem/Liberty) lifted the Huskies to victory with a layup as the clock ticked down to 4.2 seconds – a game that was played at Penn State-Fayette due to a power outage on the California campus. On that day, the Vulcans rallied from a 13-point deficit with under 12 minutes to play, tying the game at 61 with 10 seconds remaining after the Huskies had led since the midway point of the first half. Three current Huskies saw time that day – Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) had three points and three rebounds while Taylor Kaminski (Philadelphia/Archbishop Wood) and Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) also logged minutes off the bench.
 
Cal's last win in the series came at Nelson Field House on Dec. 4, 2011, 77-72. Bloomsburg opened up a 26-12 first half lead and held a 54-49 advantage with 11:58 to play before a 12-2 Vulcans run changed the complexion of the game with Cal U rallying to win.
 
HAPPY NEW YEAR
The Huskies turn the calendar to 2015 with their pair of crossover games this weekend, but will not soon forget the success of 2014. Bloomsburg again won the PSAC East and made the deepest run in postseason program history since 2001. In all, the Huskies posted a record of 26-4 during the 2014 calendar year.
 
TWEETABLES
-Marla Simmons (Lebanon/Cedar Crest) is averaging 12.0 points per game this season, well above her career average of 4.7 ppg entering this season. The senior guard averaged 6.5 ppg last year.
 
-Simmons has led the Huskies in scoring in four out of the past five games.
 
-Only three PSAC players have averaged more minutes per game than Simmons' 34.6 – Clarion's Tania Holmes (37.0), Cal U's Miki Glenn (36.4) and Edinboro's Laurel Lindsay (35.0).
 
-Adreana Sadowski (Fleetwood/Brandywine Heights) ranks second in the PSAC in blocks per game (1.9), behind only ESU's Jessica Martin (2.7).
 
-The Huskies are 41-8 at Nelson Field House since the start of the 2011-12 season. Bloomsburg has not lost more than two games at home in a season during that span.
 
-The Huskies have not lost back-to-back games at Nelson Field House since Jan. 3-4, 2011 (IUP, California PA).
 
-Bloomsburg is 13-4 against the PSAC West in crossover play the past three years.
 
NUMBERS TO KNOW
> 22.6 – Bloomsburg is forcing opponents into 22.6 turnovers per game on the year.
 
> 56.4 – In seven victories this season, the Huskies have allowed an average of 56.4 points to opponents.
 
> 60.4 – Bloomsburg ranks third in the PSAC for the entire season in scoring defense, allowing just 60.4 points on average to opponents.
 
> 71 – Career blocks for Adreana Sadowski (Fleetwood/Brandywine Heights) entering Saturday. Sadowski currently ranks 11th in Huskies history for swats, six behind the 77 of Hilarie Runyon (1979-83) which is 10th. Sadowski totaled 45 blocks last year, a total that ranks ninth in Huskies single season history.
 
> 163 – Career assists for Jocelyn Ford (Lansing, NY/Lansing) in a Huskies uniform entering Saturday. She is 23 assists from breaking into the school's top 15 all-time – Megan LaBuda (1998-2002) and Jen Bryan (1999-2003) are tied for 15th with 186 career assists. Ford's 119 assists last year were ninth-most in Huskies single season history.