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SFU Staten Island, NY – Due to the snowstorm that is expected to impact the New York City metropolitan area, the Monday, January 26 women's basketball game between Saint Francis U and Wagner College to be played at the Spiro Sports Center will be moved up to a 4:00 p.m. start.
The Northeast (NEC) Conference matchup between the Red Flash (2-16, 1-6 NEC) and Seahawks (4-14, 2-5 NEC) was originally scheduled to be played at 7:00 p.m.
This will be the second meeting between the schools this season as
Wagner earned a 76-60 victory back on January 3 in Loretto, PA in the NEC opener for both teams.
Junior guard
Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) led three players in double figures with 21 points, while freshman post player
Sofia Roma (Richmond Hill, NY/Nazareth Prep) delivered career highs with eight points and 18 rebounds in leading the Seahawks to the win.
Monday's matchup features a battle between the NEC's two leading scorers, Saint Francis U senior guard
Alexa Hayward, who enters the game with a league-best 23.3 average, while Seahawk sophomore guard
Jasmine Nwajei (Rockaway Park, NY/Murry Bergtraum) is the NEC's No. 2 at 22.8 per game.
About WagnerWagner will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak when the Seahawks host Saint Francis U in the season's second meeting. The Green & White are coming off of a 77-61 loss at Central Connecticut in a game where Camden Musgrave scored 22 points and Tejahne Malone recorded a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Blue Devils, which offset a 23-point outing by Nwajei. CCSU, which was picked in a tie for ninth place with Fairleigh Dickinson in the 2014-2015 Northeast Conference (NEC) Preseason Poll, maintained a share of first place in the league standings at 6-1 along with Bryant (71-67 winners over Sacred Heart). Junior guard
Jordyn Peck (Shaker Heights, OH/Shaker Heights) , who averages 14.3 points per game, added 18 points for the Seahawks against CCSU, who also received nine points from sophomore guard
Lyndsay Rowe (South River, NJ/St. John Vianney). All of Rowe's points came via the long ball as the 5-8 lefty who now averages 7.3 points per game and who entered the game tops in the NEC in three-point field goal shooting percentage (.434), went 3-of-5 from beyond the arc while playing all 40 minutes. Roma was active in the low post throughout as the 6-2 New York City product scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting while pulling down 10 rebounds. For Roma, the 10 boards mark the second time in her young career that she has reached double-digits in caroms as she snared 18 boards, while tallying a career-high eight points, at Saint Francis U on January 3.
About Saint Francis UThe Red Flash are coming off a tough 74-64 overtime loss to Mount St. Mary's on Saturday in a game where SFU held a lead the majority of the game against the Mountaineers, but struggled in the extra period offensively, allowing The Mount to shoot 16 free throws in the five-minute span. Corissa Archer delivered a top performance against The Mount as she scored a career-high 18 points, while going 9-of-9 from the field. Cydney Smith secured a career-high 10 rebounds and scored the game-tying basket at the end of regulation for the Flash. Hayward recorded her second double-double of the year as the captain scored 11 points and dished out 10 assists. This outing came on the heels of being named 2015 Senior CLASS Award candidate also on Friday, which gives SFU two of those in as many seasons, SFU will host Fairleigh Dickinson next on Saturday for the first regular season meeting. The Flash will have already completed season series against Sacred Heart and Wagner before playing FDU once.
All-Time SeriesThis is the 62nd all-time meeting between the schools and Saint Francis U holds a 41-20 edge in the series.
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