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Bulldog Women Travel to Presbyterian Saturday

02.13.2009 | Women's Basketball

ASHEVILLE, N.C.?UNC Asheville's women's basketball team travels to Presbyterian for a 5 p.m. game against the Blue Hose on Saturday. The game will be video streamed at bigsouthsports.com.

 

The Bulldogs (8-15) enter Saturday's action at 5-5 in the Big South after falling 75-50 to Coastal Carolina on Monday. Asheville is tied with the Chanticleers for fifth place in the league standings. Both teams are just a game behind Winthrop and Radford who are tied for third place and just two games behind second place High Point.

 

Ana Baker is fourth in the Big South in scoring averaging 12.8 points per game. She has scored at least 19 points in each of the last three games. She had 20 points and five assists against Coastal Carolina and has scored in double figures 11 times this season.

 

Lindsey Thompson hit five three-pointers on Monday against Coastal. It was the second time this season she has made five threes in a game. She scored 15 points and is the Bulldogs' second leading scorer in conference games averaging 10.2 points per contest. She has scored double figures in each of the last two games.

 

Presbyterian (3-18, 0-9 Big South) snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 77-42 victory over Allen on Monday. It was just the fifth time this season the Blue Hose scored more than 50 points in a game. Lea Smith led the way with 23 points for PC. The Blue Hose are led by Amanda Mills who averages 11.8 points and Katlin Moore who averages 11.4 points per contest. Smith averages nine points and 5.6 boards per game. PC is last in the Big South in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals, and blocks and are 3-6 at home this season.

 

UNC Asheville is 4-0 all-time against Presbyterian after downing the Blue Hose 62-36 on Jan. 12, in Asheville. Three of the four meetings have been in Asheville with the Bulldogs winning by an average margin of 25 points per game. The only previous meeting in Clinton was a 68-64 Bulldog victory last season.

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