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Women's Basketball Plays Final Home Games This Weekend
March 04, 2009 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. (3/4/09) ? The Princeton women's basketball team will play its final home games of the 2008-09 season this weekend, March 6-7. The Tigers host Columbia on Friday at 7 p.m., and Cornell on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Saturday will be Senior Night for Julia Berger, Jessica Berry, Whitney Downs and Caitlin O'Neill. It will also be National Girls and Women in Sports Day at Princeton. For more information on the event check out the Princeton Athletics Web site.
The game will be webcast via Tiger Zone for registered users and free audio and live stats will also be available.
Princeton enters the weekend with an 11-14 overall record and a 6-5 Ivy League mark, after a sweep of Brown and Yale. Sophmore Addie Micir leads the team in scoring with 11.4 points per game, while also adding 4.3 rebounds per game. Senior Whitney Downs and freshman Lauren Edwards are contributing 9.3 and 9.2 points per game, and Downs has a team-high 37 steals. Freshman Devona Allgood is chipping in 7.8 points per game and leads the team in rebounds with 6.6 per game and a team-high 38 blocks.
Princeton leads Columbia in the all-time series, 33-16 and have won the last four games, including a 69-59 win last month.
Columbia is 13-13 on the season and 6-6 in Ivy League action. The team dropped both games last weekend to Harvard and Dartmouth. Judie Lomax paces the offense with 14.2 points per game and 14.1 rebounds per game. She also has 32 steals and 48 assists. Danielle Browne and Lauren Dwyer add 9.1 and 8.9 points per game. Browne has a team-best 104 assists while Dwyer has a team-high 35 blocks.
Princeton leads the series 37-20 and has won the last five games including a 75-56 win earlier this season.
Cornell is 10-14 on the season and 6-6 in the Ivy League. The Big Red are coming off of an upset win over Dartmouth, 66-61 in overtime from last weekend. The team went on to lose to Harvard by seven the next night. Shanna Scarselletta leads the team in scoring and in rebounding with 11.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. She also has a team-high 16 blocks. Allie Fedorowicz and Lauren Benson add 11.1 and 10.0 points per game. Benson has 124 assists, the most on the team, while Fedorowicz's 28 steals are the most on the team.