Concord Begins Two Game MEC Homestand vs. West Liberty, Wheeling Jesuit

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MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
• The Mountain Lions enter play this weekend at 9-10 overall and 7-8 in Mountain East Conference play.
CU is eighth in the conference standings.

• Againt Urbana University on Feb. 3,  junior forward Rachel Artrip scored a career-high 31 points, shooting 10-for-16 from the field, 3-for-6 from three-point range and 8-for-12 from the foul line.

• Junior forward Andrea Bertrand is 64 points away from reaching 1,000 career points. With 59 more rebounds, Bertrand will also have 500 boards for her career.

• Once Bertrand reaches the milestones, she will join Jolysa Brown (1,667 points / 1,040 rebounds), Tracy Fletcher (1,722 / 728), Renee Gagnier (1,568 / 1,141), Samm Nester (1,665  / 701) and Amber Showalter (1,016 / 740) as the only CU players to have 1,000-point, 500-rebound careers.

• With four more assists, junior guard Sissy Wagner will move into fourth all-time in Concord history. This season, Wagner ranks 11th in the nation for assists per game at 5.5.

• Head coach Kenny Osborne needs one more win to earn his 200th career victory at CU.
Against Urbana, sophomore guard Leslie Mack scored a career-high 20 points while tying a personal-best in made three-pointers with four.

• In the matchup against the Blue Knights freshman center Alley Odell made her first career start, scoring a career-high eight points and grabbing six rebounds.

• Junior forward Jacqueline Kestner has continued her defensive intensity this season by forcing a steal in 13 consecutive games. She is the team leader wtih 1.5 steals per contest on the year.

• Kestner has also been consistent from the foul line in her last two games, going 12-for-14 (85.7 percent).
To start play in the MEC this week, Bertrand, Wagner and senior center Sammi Webster are ranked in several statistical categories.

• Webster sits fourth in field goal percentage at .561 and eighth in blocks at 1.0 per game.

• Meanwhile, Bertrand is third in scoring at 18.9 points per game (ppg), sixth in rebounding at 7.8 rebounds per contest, sixth in field goal percentage at.525 and third in offensive rebounds at 3.2 per game.

• Wagner is first in assists per game (5.5), 10th in scoring (15.4 ppg), ninth in free-throw percentage (.819), third in three-point percentage (.422), second in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.11).

• In her first extended playing time of the season, freshman guard Hannah Murray scored six points on two three-pointers.
Earlier this season against West Liberty, Wagner scored 20 points including the final three points for CU with 12 seconds left after being fouled while converting a layup to lift Concord to a 79-78 win.

• Also in the Jan. 4 matchup with WLU, Bertrand scored a game-high 21 points while Artrip and Webster added 12 and 11 points, respectively.

• West Liberty comes to Athens as one of the hottest teams in the league at 13-8 and 10-5 in MEC play. The Hilltoppers have won five in a row and seven of their last eight games.

• West Liberty has five different players that average at least 10 points per game led by Liz Flowers, who averages 17.3 ppg.

• Wheeling Jesuit will visit UVa.-Wise Thursday night. They begin conference competition this week at 9-10 overall and 6-9 in the MEC.

A Concord Win Would…
• A Concord win over West Liberty or Wheeling Jesuit would give coach Kenny Osborne his 200th career win at Concord.

• A Concord win over West Liberty would give the Mountain Lions their second consecutive victory over the Hilltoppers

• A Concord win over Wheeling Jesuit would snap a two-game losing streak to the Cardinals.

Up Next
• After its two home games, Concord will take to the road for the final two times against the University of Charleston Feb. 13 and West Virginia State Feb. 15.