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Hackensack, NJ - The Wagner women's basketball team looks to improve to 3-2 in the Northeast Conference (NEC) when the Seahawks travel to Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday in a 2:00 p.m. tilt in the first game of a doubleheader with the Seahawk and Knight men's teams set to meet at 4:30 p.m.
 
Wagner enters the contest with an overall record of 4-11 and an NEC mark of 2-2, which puts the Seahawks in a tie for sixth place in the league standings while 3-11 on the year and, at 0-4, in search of their first conference win.
 
All-Time vs. Fairleigh Dickinson
This is the 69^th all-time meeting between the school and the Knights hold a slim 35-33 edge. Last season, each team held serve on its home floor with FDU posting an 82-70 (2/8) win before the Green & White turned the tables on the Knights, racing to a 67-48 (2/17) win nine days later in front of an audience logged in on ESPN3.com.
 
Last Time Out:
On Monday night at the Spiro Center, two days following Wagner's rousing 72-69 comeback win over LIU Brooklyn, Judith Sole scored 20 points and Anna Stamolamprou added 14 to lead defending NEC champion Robert Morris to an 86-47 victory. Junior guard Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) was one of the lone bright spots for the Seahawks, hitting for 20 points on 9-of-18 shooting. The 5-6 lefty is now up to 1,081 career points, which moves her to within three points of passing Marie Laurence-Archambault (2009-2013) for 20^th on the all-time Wagner career list. Sophomore guard Lyndsay Rowe (South River, NJ/St. John's Vianney) added seven points while sophomore forward Jackie Dluhi (Middletown, NJ/Middletown South) chipped in with six points and seven rebounds. The Seahawks also received a feisty four-point, career-high 10-rebound, effort from redshirt-sophomore guard Jazmine Hamlet (New York, NY/St. Francis Lewis), who added three steals and an assist in 33 minutes of action. Sophomore guard Jasmine Nwajei (Rockaway Park, NY/Murry Bergtraum), who entered the game as the NEC's leading scorer at 23.5 points per game, was saddled by early foul trouble and was never able to get untracked, finishing with three points, while adding three rebounds and a game-high four steals in just 20 minutes of playing time. For the 5-8 New York City scoring dynamo, it marked the third time this season, and just the sixth time in her 44-game career, that she did not hit for double figures. Her previous season-low was five points at No. 7 Maryland (11/16) while her career low is the two points that she was held to at Rutgers (12/12/13).

NWAJEI'S TOP 5 CAREER SCORING DAYS
1. 40 - vs. Columbia...............12/30/14
2. 39 - at Vermont.................12/14/14
3. 37 – vs. LIU Brooklyn.........1/10/15
4. 32 - at VCU........................ 11/14/14
5. 32 - vs. Yale....................... 12/17/14 

TOP SCORING GAMES IN WAGNER HISTORY
1.   Stephanie Samuels vs. FDU, 2-18-86................ 43
2.   Jasmine Nwajei vs. Columbia, 12-30-14........ 40
3.   Jasmine Nwajei at Vermont, 12-14-14...... ......39
4.  Jasmine Nwajei vs. LIU Brooklyn…………….........37
5.   Meredith Kerns vs. Drexel, 11-28-01................. .34
      Susan Moffat vs. Cleveland St., 12-28-95.........34
      Stephanie Samuels at Seton Hall, 1-20-86......34
      Tricia Hoff vs. Jersey City State, 2-16-78.......... 34
9.   Joy Gallagher vs. Boston U., 12-30-03...............33
      Jenny Frazier vs. New Hampshire, 12-3-95.......33
      Kristee Chaplin at FDU, 1-26-95....................... . 33
      Jenny Frazier at FDU, 2-16-94.......................... .  33
      Stephanie Samuels at LIU, 1-7-86.....................  33
      Stephanie Samuels at Monmouth, 1-5-85........33
      Tricia Hoff vs. Mercey, 2-18-78........................ ..  33
 
PECK REACHES 1,000-POINT MARK DURING CAREER-HIGH 31-POINT OUTING VS. COLUMBIA
Junior guard Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) became the 24th player in Wagner women's basketball history to reach the 1,000-point mark when she made the first of two free throws during the first half of the Seahawks' 97-86 win over Columbia (12/30), en route to a career-high 31-point outing. Peck, who enters the Robert Morris game in 20th-place all time with 1,085 career points, connected on 8-of-18 shots, including 5-of-7 from three-point range, and 10-of-11 from the charity stripe, vs. .the Lions. The 31-point outburst bettered her previous career high of 30 which the crafty lefthander tallied vs. Central Connecticut (1/11/14).

SEAHAWKS LOOK TO BUILD ON LAST SEASON'S 8-10 NEC MARK, APPEARANCE IN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
The  NEC's most improved team last season, Wagner closed the 2013-2014 campaign with an overall mark of 9-21, 8-10 in league play second-year head coach Lisa Cermignano, after going 3-26 the previous season with a conference record of 2-16.

PLAYING TOUGH NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS THE CERMIGNANO WAY
Wagner opened the 2014-15 season with a two-game road swing, beginning with a matchup at VCU of the Atlantic 10 (11/14) followed by a contest at No. 8 Maryland (11/16). The Seahawks' home opener was against No. 17 Rutgers (L 81-53). Led by Hall of Fame head coach C. Vivian Stringer, the 2014 WNIT Champions and the first Big 10 opponent to ever play at the Spiro Sports Center. The demanding non-conference schedule continued with a Nov. 30 game at Big East member St. John's (L 71-49). Third-year head coach Lisa Cermignano believes that last season's tough non-conference schedule helped prepare her team for NEC play and was a big reason for the Seahawks' six-game league improvement. After playing a non-league schedule that included heavyweights Kentucky, Rutgers, VCU and Pittsburgh, the Green & White went 8-10 in the NEC and qualified for the league tournament for the first time since 2010.
 
CERMIGNANO ON THE NEC
"The conference is wide open this year," Lisa Cermignano said. "The league graduated two major players, one at Saint Francis U (Alli Williams ) and the other at Robert Morris (Artemis Spanou ), there's not a powerhouse back that's won the last couple of years consistently, and we do have a lot of returners. As I said, we're still very young but the sky's the limit. We're really just building for the next couple of years."
 
Seahawks Picked 4th In NEC Poll, Jasmine Nwajei Named To Preseason All-NEC Team
Brooklyn, NY (Oct. 21)– The Wagner women's basketball team, last season's most-improved Northeast Conference (NEC) squad, was picked fourth in the 2014-2015 Preseason Poll while sophomore guard Jasmine Nwajei (Rockaway Park, NY/Murry Bergtraum) was named to the Preseason All-NEC Team, in a vote of the league's head coaches and announced today at NEC Social Media Day held today at the Barclays Center.
 
Defending champion Robert Morris was picked first, garnering five of the 10 first-place votes. Sacred Heart was chosen second, with four first-place votes, St.  Francis Brooklyn was third, with Wagner fourth and Saint Francis U rounding out the top five.
 
Bryant was picked to finish sixth, Mount St. Mary's seventh, LIU Brooklyn checked in at eighth place with Central Connecticut and Fairleigh Dickinson finishing in a tie for ninth place.

2014-2015 NEC Preseason Poll
1. Robert Morris (5)
2. Sacred Heart (4)
3. St. Francis Brooklyn (1)
4. Wagner
5. Saint Francis U
6. Bryant
7. Mount St. Mary's
8. LIU Brooklyn
9. (tie) Central Connecticut
    Fairleigh Dickinson

2014-15 Preseason All-NEC Women's Basketball
Senior               Jenniqua Bailey - Bryant
Senior               Alexa Hayward - Saint Francis U
Sophomore      Jasmine Nwajei - Wagner
Senior               Eilidh Simpson - St. Francis Brooklyn
Senior               Gabrielle Washington - Sacred Heart
 
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