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Women's Basketball Kicks Off New Year at Lafayette
January 01, 2009 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (1/1/08) ? The Princeton women's basketball team begins the second half of its season at Lafayette on Friday, Jan. 2 at 7 p.m.
The game will be aired live on the Lafayette Sports Network for those in the surrounding Easton, Pa., area. You can hear all the action online with Derek Jones calling the action and live stats will also be available free of charge.
Princeton begins the second-half of its schedule at Lafayette and are looking to end a four-game winless streak. Sophomore Addie Micir leads the Tigers with 12.7 points per game. She is also chipping in 3.9 rebounds per game and is shooting 41.1 percent from behind the arc and 87.5 percent from the free-throw line. Senior Whitney Downs is averaging 10.9 points per game and leads the team in steals with 20. Freshman Lauren Edwards is contributing 7.9 points per game, 3.5 rebounds per game, 18 steals and 18 assists. Senior Jessica Berry is the teams' assist leader with 27 assists and freshman Devona Allgood is the teams' leader on the glass with 5.7 boards per game and a team-best 15 blocks.
Tonight's meeting will be the 38th meeting between the two squads. Princeton has a slight advantage 20-17 but Lafayette has the better record on its home court at 10-9. Last season the Leopards took a 78-68 game at Jadwin Gym ending Princeton's six-game win streak in the series.
Lafayette sports a 5-9 record with all five wins coming at the Kirby Sports Center, resulting in a perfect 5-0 record. The team is coming off of back-to-back losses at a tournament at Virginia Tech, losing to the host school 66-44 in the first game and to North Carolina A&T 65-63 in the second game. LaKeisha Wright and Cristin Zavocki are the team's top scorers, with Wright averaging 10.6 points per game and Zavocki adding 10.5 points per game. Emily Garner is the team's top rebounder, pulling down 6.6 boards per game, with Wright second in the category with 4.9 rebounds per game. Jessica Spicer leads the Leopards in two statistical categories, with 48 assists and 20 steals, while Elizabeth Virgin has a team-best nine blocks
Although Princeton has faced two teams from the Patriot League already this season, the Tigers and Lafayette have just one common opponent. Both teams recorded losses to nationally-ranked Rutgers on the road. Princeton fell 83-35 to the then No. 3-ranked Scarlet Knights on Nov. 18, while Lafayette dropped a 61-29 game to the then No. 14-ranked team almost one month later on Dec. 19.