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ATHENS, W.Va. - The Concord University women's basketball team plays its final true road game of the season at Davis & Elkins 5:30 p.m. Wednesday before hosting West Virginia Wesleyan on Senior Day 2:00 p.m. Saturday at the Carter Center in two Mountain East Conference games.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: Both the Davis & Elkins and Concord Sports Information Departments will provide live in-game statistics for both games.
Video: Live streaming video will also be available for both games this week.
RECORDS
CU starts the week with a record of 16-8 overall and is 12-6 versus MEC foes.
Davis & Elkins is in ninth place in the MEC with a mark of 6-12 and is 7-17 overall.
West Virginia Wesleyan is 3-21 this season and 1-17 in the conference.
CELEBRATING A SENIOR
Senior forward
Madison May will be honored prior to Saturday's game as the program's only senior this season. As the week begins for the Mountain Lions, May ranks sixth in career points (1,630), fifth in field goals made (564), sixth in field-goal percentage (47.0), second in free throws made (479), 10
th in free-throw percentage (72.5), fifth in assists (305), seventh in rebounds (720) and fourth in blocks (93). Earlier this season, May became the only player in program history with 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 250 assists in a career. Last season, the Athens, West Virginia native became the first all-region selection for the program since the 2011-12 season. During her season senior, May ranks in the top 15 in Division II in scoring (21.2 points per game), and has posted five games of 30 or more points to bring her career total to eight 30-point performances. May has been part of 57 wins during her time in the Maroon and Gray, and helped Concord to the MEC Semifinals for the first time in program history last season.
MOVING ON UP
Speaking of May and the CU record books, she is approaching the all-time top five in program history in scoring. With 38 more points, May would not only move into fifth in scoring at Concord, but would also surpass
Jolysa Brown (2008-12) for fourth. Meanwhile, junior forward
Riley Fitzwater jumped from 16
th to 12
th on the all-time scoring list with 42 total points in wins over Wheeling and West Liberty. The Glenville, West Virginia native can leap into the top 10 in all-time scoring with 19 points this week. Fitzwater is sitting on 1,156 career points Elsewhere in the program's career record book, junior guard
Keely Lundy is now ninth in three-point field goal percentage after a three-game stretch saw the Galax, Virginia native go 8-for-12 from three-point distance. For her career, Lundy is a 33.4 percent (78-for-233) shooter from beyond the arc.
CLOSING TIME
May tied her career high with 38 points in the win at West Liberty after having just eight points at halftime. In six games during the month of February, she is averaging 14 points per game in the second half that also includes a 21-point outburst in the second half and overtime in a win over Urbana to start the month on February 1. Over those same six games, the Mountain Lions are outscoring their opponents by an average of 41.1-34.5 in the second halves.
DOUBLE DOWN
Fitzwater, the reigning MEC Player of the Week, has recorded a double-double in seven of her last 10 games—a streak that started in a home win over Davis & Elkins January 18—and has 15 double-doubles on the season. In the wins over Wheeling and West Liberty, the Glenville, West Virginia native averaged 19 points and 17 rebounds per game while shooting 55.1 percent (16-for-29) from the field. Fitzwater will matchup against the national leader in double-doubles, Davis & Elkins' Jamiyah Johnson. In January, Fitzwater finished with 18 points, 15 rebounds and nine blocks in an 82-47 win while Johnson went for 14 points and 13 rebounds, but was 6-of-18 from the field.
HOLDING THEM DOWN
The Mountain Lions held on for a 65-64 win at West Virginia Wesleyan January 15 as they limited the Bobcats to 30.5 percent shooting in the contest. It was the first game of a three-game stretch where Concord held its opponents below 40 percent shooting with Davis & Elkins included in those games. The Senators shot just 22.2 percent versus CU. Offensively, sophomore guard
Maggie Guynn finished two points shy of her career with 21 points at Wesleyan while Fitzwater scored 13 points to go over 1,000 career points. This season, Concord is limiting its opponents to 35.3 percent from the field—22
nd-best in Division II.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
35- Margin of victory for CU against Davis & Elkins—its highest of the season before the 37-point win over Wheeling.
47.5- Team field-goal percentage for Concord this season, seventh-best in Division II.
110- Career games played by May, tied for ninth most in program history.
DAVIS & ELKINS AT A GLANCE
Besides the 19.0 points per game that Johnson averages, Sydney Nestor is the only other D&E player that averages double figures scoring at 10.5 points per game. The Senators halted a four-game losing streak over the weekend as it downed West Virginia State, 93-81. Johnson had her third 20-point, 20-rebound game of the year with 29 points and 22 rebounds against the Yellow Jackets. Johnson was the only Davis & Elkins player to score in double figures during the January game in Athens. Nestor threw in nine points while Jessica Eadsforth-Yates added eight points off the bench.
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN AT A GLANCE
The Bobcats are searching for their first win since November 23 when they knocked off Frostburg State. West Virginia Wesleyan will host Glenville State Wednesday before traveling to Athens Saturday afternoon. Vicky Bullett, an Olympic gold-medal winning basketball player (1988 Seoul) and former WNBA All-Star is in her fourth season coaching Wesleyan. Nicole Gilyard averages 12.0 points per game while Brittany Stawovy, who scored 16 points on Concord in January, averages 11.1 points per game. The lone road win for WVWC this season was the win over Frostburg State.
