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ATHENS, W.Va. - The Concord University women's basketball team finishes up its two-game Mountain East Conference road trip 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at West Virginia Wesleyan before returning home to host Davis & Elkins 2:00 p.m. Saturday in another MEC contest at the Carter Center.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: Live in-game statistics of both games will be provided by each school's sports information department.
Video: Live streaming video of each game will also be available.
RECORDS
CU is 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the league after having its four-game win streaking snapped at Wheeling.
West Virginia Wesleyan starts the week at 3-11 overall and is 1-7 against MEC teams.
The Senators are 2-11 this season and 2-6 in the MEC.
DOUBLING DOWN
The Mountain Lions got double-doubles from three different players last week against West Liberty and Wheeling. Junior forward
Riley Fitzwater notched her seventh and eighth double-doubles of the season by averaging 17.5 points and 13 rebounds over the two games including 22 points and 14 rebounds versus WLU. Senior forward
Madison May had a double-double of 32 points and 13 rebounds against West Liberty, which was her third 30-point game of the season. Meanwhile, sophomore guard
Gracie Robinson tagged onto Fitzwater's double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds at Wheeling for her first career double-double. It was also the first time a CU guard had a double-double since
Emily Boothe went for 20 points and 12 rebounds at home against West Virginia State last season.
A PERFECT NIGHT
As part of May's 32 points against West Liberty, the Athens, West Virginia native was a perfect 16-for-16 at the foul line as eight of her makes came in the final 1:06 of the game with the contest still hanging in the balance. The 16 made free throws were the most in a Division II game this season without a miss. May's performance led to Concord shooting 86.7 percent (26-for-30) from the free-throw line against the Hilltoppers. CU had not shot 85 percent or better from the charity stripe since a 13-for-15 showing against Charleston November 2018. Along with May's performance, sophomore guard
Maggie Guynn hit on 4-of-4 foul shots against the Hilltoppers. And over the last three games, Concord is shooting 78.9 percent (60-for-76) from the foul line.
RECORD WATCH
Entering the week, Fitzwater needs 13 points to reach 1,000 points for her career as she would become the 18
th player in program history to reach the milestone. If Fitzwater were to reach 1,000 career points at Wesleyan, she would do so less than 50 miles from where she grew up in Glenville, West Virginia. Additionally, Fitzwater needs six blocks to achieve 300 for her career. Only two other players across all Divisions of NCAA women's basketball—Merrimack's Denia Davis-Stewart and Purdue's Ae'Rianna Harris—have 300 career blocks. On Wednesday, May will suit up in her 100
th career game at CU. For players that began their CU careers in 2010 or later, the Athens, West Virginia native would be just the sixth player in that time to play 100 games in the Maroon and Gray.
THE START OF SOMETHING
The Mountain Lions have won have five straight games against West Virginia Wesleyan including sweeping WVWC each of the last two seasons. The winning streak has been aided by CU shooting a combined 56.1 percent (127-for-226) from the floor in the last four games while averaging 81.2 points per game. The first game of the season between the two sides in 2017-18 saw May record her first career 30-point game against the Bobcats with 30 points. Meanwhile, Fitzwater is averaging 16.5 points and 10 rebounds per game in four career games versus Wesleyan.
BATTLE DOWN LOW
While Concord saw plenty of good guards playing West Liberty last week, the Mountain Lions will get a look at the MEC's leading rebounder on Saturday when Jamiyah Johnson and Davis & Elkins visits the Carter Center. Johnson is averaging just shy of 20 points per game (19.8) and an MEC-best 14.4 rebounds per contest while shooting 58.2 percent from the field. Over the weekend, Fitzwater and fellow junior forward
Tamra Scott forced Wheeling's low post player Lilly Ritz, who was shooting well over 50 percent from the field, into a 7-for-18 showing in the road defeat.
NEXT UP
While Fitzwater, Guynn and May are all in the top 14 in the MEC in scoring, including May being tied for the conference lead at 22.7 points per game, Robinson and Scott have been aiding the scoring effort recently. Robinson is averaging 9.2 points per game over her last four games while Scott is scoring seven points per game over the last four contests. In fact, Robinson had only scored 46 points in the first nine games before netting 37 in the last four.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
5- Concord leads both all-time series against Wesleyan (21-16) and D&E (15-10) by five games.
13- Before losing at Wheeling, Concord had won 13 straight true games.
94- Made free throws by May this season, sixth most in Division II.
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN AT A GLANCE
Since the starting the year at 3-2, the Bobcats have dropped nine straight games. However, four of those losses have come by nine points or less, including a 93-84 setback against West Virginia State on Saturday. Nicole Gilyard and Brittany Stawovy are both averaging 11.8 points per game to lead WVWC. Wesleyan has the MEC's fifth-best scoring defense at 78.3 points per game, but the Bobcats are allowing opponents to shoot 37.9 percent from three-point range—the highest in the MEC.
DAVIS & ELKINS AT A GLANCE
Led by Johnson's work on the glass, Davis & Elkins has the MEC's best rebounding margin of +9.0 while Concord checks in second at +7.2. In its fourth-lowest scoring total of the season last year, Concord was held to 66 points by D&E in a 66-60 win last season at home. Besides Johnson, no other player averages double figures scoring, but Sydney Nestor and Jessica Eadsforth-Yates both net 9.8 points per game. Head coach Jason Asbell is in his 12
th season at Davis & Elkins, the second-longest tenured MEC coach at the same school behind CU's
Kenny Osborne.
