BEREA, OHIO -- Junior forward Carly Flowers (North Baltimore) scored 15 points as the third-ranked Baldwin-Wallace College women's basketball team defeated Ohio Athletic Conference and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University, 64-61 tonight (Wednesday, January 3, 2007) in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium in Berea. The win kept B-W in first place in the OAC.
The win was B-W's 10th straight and 30th in a row versus its cross-town rival. With its victory, B-W, ranked third nationally by the WBCA (Women's Basketball Coaches Association)/ USA TODAY Division III Top-25, is now 11-1 overall and a perfect 5-0 in the OAC. With its loss, JCU fell to 4-7 overall and 1-4 in the OAC.
In addition to Flowers, sophomore guard Amanda Mondrach (Parma/Holy Name) scored 11points and junior guard Selena Eskinazi-Budge (Beechwood) scored 10 for the Yellow Jackets. JCU was led by guard Rachel Price with 19 points.
In the first half, B-W jumped-out to an early 4-0 lead when Mondrach made a layup at the 18:24 mark. Right away, the Blue Streaks answered B-W's early lead when guard Jessica Gibbons made a layup of her own to tie the score at 4-4 at the 17:17 mark and set the theme for a first half that saw as many as 11 lead changes between the Yellow Jackets and Blue Streaks. B-W saw it's biggest deficit of the half when John Carroll guard Rachel Price was good from three-point range to put the Blue Streaks up 11-7 at the 14:16 mark. B-W quickly tied the game back up at 11-11on a layup by senior guard Michelle White (Hudson) with 12:43 to go in the half. The Yellow Jackets went into the locker room with a 33-32 advantage as Mondrach made one of two free throws to end the half.
In the second half, lead changes were again the theme as the Yellow Jackets and Blue Steaks battled for cross-town bragging rights. B-W opened the half strong, extending their lead to 42-34 on a layup by sophomore guard Jessica Butzer (Orrville) at the 17:29 mark. John Carroll came back to tie the game 43-43 at the 13:24 mark when guard Alex D'Amico made a jumper. The two teams continued to alternate leads until the Yellow Jackets captured the lead for good at the 1:41 mark when Mondrach stole a John Carroll pass and passed to Eskinazi-Budge, who made her second attempt at a layup to put B-W on top 60-59. John Carrol had a chance to tie the game with a three-pointer at the buzzer put came up short.
The Yellow Jacket women next play on Saturday, January 6 when they host OAC rival Muskingum College in the Ursprung Gym at 3:00 p.m.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact B-W Sports Information Director Kevin Ruple by telephone at 440-826-2327, by FAX machine at 440-826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu. To contact Head Coach Cheri Harrer, please call her in the office at 440-826-3299 or you can reach her via e-mail at charrer@bw.edu.
Baldwin-Wallace College Women versus John Carroll University
in an Ohio Athletic Conference game
on 1/3/2007; 7:30 p.m. in Berea, Ohio
FINAL SCORE: BALDWIN-WALLACE 64, JOHN CARROLL 61
BALDWIN-WALLACE (11-1 overall, 5-0 in the OAC): Quiring 0-0 0-0 0; Shrider 2-5 4-4 8; Mondrach 4-9 3-6 11; Flowers 6-11 3-5 15; White 3-5 0-1 6; Busser 0-0 0-0 0; Jaworski 1-2 0-0 3; Eskinazi-Budge 4-11 2-4 10; Latimer 2-3 1-2 5; Mottayaw 0-0 0-0 0; Brough 0-2 0-0 0; Watson 0-0 0-0 0; Arbogast 0-0 0-0 0; Farage 0-0 0-0 0; Butzer 2-4 2-2 6; TOTALS: 24-52 15-24 64
JOHN CARROLL (4-7 overall, 1-4 in the OAC): Price 6-11 5-6 19; Gibbons 2-12 4-4 8; D'Amico 5-9 3-3 13; Prosinski 1-2 0-0 2; Kern 3-10 2-3 8; Scholla 0-0 0-0 0; Mahoney 0-2 0-0 0; Hamilton 0-5 0-0 0; Sweeney 0-0 0-0 0; Ford 2-5 2-2 7; Kiko 0-0 0-0 0; Hanak 0-0 0-0 0; Sureck 2-4 0-0 4; Briercheck 0-0 0-0 0; Gruber 0-1 0-0 0; TOTALS: 21-61 16-18 61
HALFTIME: B-W, 33-32. 3-point goals: B-W 1-5 (Jaworski 1-1), JCU 3-16 (Price 2-6; Ford 1-1). Rebounds: B-W 35 (Shrider 10), JCU 39 (Sureck 11). Assists: B-W 12(Butzer, Flowers, White 3), JCU 8 (Gibbons, Kern 3). Total Fouls: B-W 16, JCU: 23. Fouled Out: none. Technical Fouls: none; Attendance: 722
Game Notes #12 HOST John Carroll University
The Baldwin-Wallace College women's basketball team will host Ohio Athletic and Cleveland cross-town rival John Carroll University on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 in the Rudolph Ursprung Gymnasium of The Lou Higgins Center in Berea at 7:30 p.m.
RADIO -- Select Yellow Jacket women's basketball games, home and away, are broadcast by campus radio station WBWC, 88.3 FM, and via the WBWC Internet Web site at www.wbwc.com. The pregame show begins 15 minutes prior to tipoff.
BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE
LOCATION: Berea, Ohio
NICKNAME: Yellow Jackets
CONFERENCE: Ohio Athletic
2006-2007 RECORD: 10-1
OAC RECORD: 4-0
LAST GAME: Beat Wittenberg, 69-53, on Dec. 30 in Springfield in Wittenberg Trny. Championship Game.
HEAD COACH: Cheri Harrer
B-W RECORD: 338-120
YEAR AT B-W: 17th
CAREER RECORD: same
LAST MEETING: B-W won, 66-63, on Jan. 25, 2006 in University Heights.
SERIES STREAK: B-W, 29 straight
SERIES BEGAN: 1975-76, JCU won, 57-56
SERIES RECORD: B-W leads 33-7
NEXT GAME: Jan. 6: HOST Muskingum College at 3:00 p.m.
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY
LOCATION: University Heights, Ohio
NICKNAME: Blue Streaks
CONFERENCE: Ohio Athletic
2006-2007 RECORD: 4-6
OAC RECORD: 1-3
LAST GAME: Beat Goucher (Md.), 71-51, on Dec. 30 in Towson, Md.
HEAD COACH: Kristie Maravalli
WU RECORD: 76-114
YEAR AT WU: Eighth
CAREER RECORD: same as above
The Pregame Setup -- The nationally-ranked (third in the WBCA poll and eighth by d3hoops.com) Baldwin-WallaceCollege women's basketball team will look to extend its winning streak to 10 straight games when the Yellow Jackets host Ohio Athletic Conference and Cleveland cross-town rival the John Carroll University in Berea.
B-W and Wilmington College are currently tied for first place in the OAC at 4-0. Otterbein College and Ohio Northern University are tied for third place at 3-1 and Capital University is in fifth place at 2-2.
The Yellow Jackets enter this game with a 10-1 overall following their 69-53 win against traditional rival Wittenberg University on December 30, 2006 in Springfield, Ohio in the Championship Game of the Wittenberg Kiwanis Holiday Tournament. B-W has beaten cross-town rival Case Western Reserve University (78-50) and traditional rival Oberlin College (107-39) as well as OAC rivals Capital University (53-50), Mount Union College (77-52), Ohio Northern University (65-55), Marietta College (71-53) as well as nonleague foes Pitt-Greensburg (76-25), Centre, Ky. College (82-41) and Wittenberg, consecutively.
The Blue Streaks enter this game with a 4-6 overall and 1-3 OAC record and last played on December 30, 2006when they beat Goucher College, 71-51, in Townson, Maryland. JCU has won two straight games and played well in each of its last five contests which include close OAC losses to Wilmington (63-54) and at Capital (66-60).
The B-W versus John Carroll All-Time Series -- B-W and John Carroll have previously met 50 times in women's basketball with the Yellow Jackets leading the all-time series lead at 33-17, including 29 straight win. B-W won last year's season-series, 2-0, including the last meeting in University Heights on January 25, 2006 by the score of 66-63. The first-ever meeting between the two schools was during the 1975-1976 season when JCU won, 57-56.
In the Last B-W versus John Caroll Game on January 25, 2006 in University Heights: Baldwin-Wallace -- 66, John Carroll -- 63 -- In the last meeting between the rivals a season ago, B-W defeated JCU, 66-63, on January 25, 2006 in University Heights. The win was B-W's 29th straight against JCU. The Yellow Jackets were led by graduated All-American guard Nikki Altenweg with 16 points and current 5'8" sophomore All-OAC guard and 2005-2006 OAC Freshman of the Year Amanda Mondrach (Parma Heights/ Holy Name) scored nine points. For JCU, graduated senior forward Shayla Bell had a game-high 25 points. She was aided by current senior guard Jessica Gibbons with 13 points and current senor forward Allison Kern had 10.
B-W Information and Probable Starters -- Look for Yellow Jacket veteran Head Coach Cheri Harrer to count on veteran players to lead the Yellow Jackets. Overall, Harrer goes deep on her bench with a 12-player rotation all seeing double-digit minutes on the floor.
Amanda Mondrach is expected to start at a wing position with Michelle White. On the inside, look for 5'10" junior Carly Flowers (North Baltimore) and 5'8" junior forward Jessica Lattimer (Brooklyn). Sophomore 5'6" point guard Rachael Quiring (Brunswick/ Holy Name) will run the offense. Flowers leads the team in scoring with 10.8 points per game, has a team and OAC-leading 31 steals, grabs 5.5 rebounds per game and shoots 52 percent from the floor (51-of-98). Mondrach, an All-OAC player and 2005-2006 OAC Freshman of the Year, averages 8.6 ppg. and has 15 assists and 10 steals. White, a two-time All-OAC player and Academic All-OAC, scores 7.5 ppg., grabs 4.2 rpg., shoots 51 percent from the floor (31-of-61) and tops the team with 11 blocked shots. Latimer scores 5.6 ppg., pulls down 3.9 rpg. and shoots 55 percent from the floor (22-of-40). Quiring averages 4.5 ppg., tops the team with 26 assists and has 11 steals.
Off the bench, look for 5'6'' senior All-OAC guard Steffani Jaworski, 5'8" junior power forward Stacia Shrider (Marietta/ Warren Local), 5'8" sophomore guard Leah Mottayaw (Mansfield/ Madison), 5'8" junior transfer guard Selena Eskinazi-Budge (Beachwood via Miami of Florida), 6'2" freshman post Ariel Brough (Powell/ Olentangy Liberty) and 5'5" freshman point guard Sandra Busser (Parma/Padua) all to see action. Jaworski averages 5.0 ppg. and is first on the team with nine three-pointers. Shrider scores 5.8 ppg., leads the team with 6.2 rpg. and has 19 assists and 17 steals. Mottayaw scores 3.9 ppg. and is second on the team with eight three-pointers. Busser scores 3.6 ppg. Eskinazi-Budge is second on the team in scoring at 10.3 ppg, grabs, 3.9 rpg. and is second with 23 steals. Brough scores 3.2 ppg. and grabs 2.9 rpg.
Scouting the Blue Steaks of John Carroll University -- Look for seventh year Head Coach Kristie Maravalli to start 5'7" sophomore Rachael Price, 5'5" senior Jessica Gibbons, and 5'7" sophomore guard Alex D'Amico at the guard positions, and 5'10" senior Allison Kern and 5'11" senior Tracey Prosinski on the blocks. Prosinski leads the team in scoring with 13.9 points per game, rebounds with 8.1 rebounds per game, and shoots 49 percent from the field on 47-of-96 shooting. Kern averages 12 ppg., is second on the team with 7.8 rpg., and third with 14 steals. D'Amico tallies 9.8 ppg., grabs 3.0 rpg., and shoots 38 percent from three-point land (12-of-31). Gibbons scores 10.2 ppg., and leads the team in both assists with 34 and steals with 23. Price rounds out the starting five by averaging 8.2 ppg.
Off the bench, look for 5'7" freshman guard Whitney Hamilton, 5'7" junior guard Molly Scholla, 5'2" freshman post Caitlin Sureck, and 5'11" freshman post Laura Gruber. Hamilton scores 3.6 ppg., and pulls down 1.8 rpg. Scholla averages 2.6 ppg., Sureck scores 3.6 ppg., and Gruber tallies 2.1 ppg.
In B-W's Last Game versus Wittenberg on December 30 in Springfield: B-W -- 69, WU -- 53 -- In B-W's last game, junior guard Selena Eskinazi-Budge (Beachwood) scored 17 points as the third-ranked Yellow Jackets defeated host Wittenberg University, 69-53, in the champonship game of the Wittenberg Kiwanis Holiday Tournament at the Wittenberg HPER Center in Springfield, Ohio. The victory was the ninth straight for B-W and its fifth straight against traditional rival Wittenberg. It also marked B-W's second straight Wittenberg Tournament title in the last five years. In addition to E-Budge, who was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament, Amanda Mondrach and Rachael Quiring each added 10 points. Mondrach was selected to the all-tournament team.
B-W also beat Centre (Ky.) College, 82-41, in the first round on Friday, Dec. 29. In that game, Mondrach led the way with 16 points and was joined in the double figure scoring column by Budge and Steffani Jaworski with 14 points each and Michelle White with 10. B-W raced off to a 48-16 halftime advantage and never looked back.
In John Carroll's Last Game versus Goucher (Md.) College on December 30 in Towson: JCU -- 71, GC -- 51 --In John Carroll's last game, a 71-51 victory at Goucher (Md.) College, on December 30, the Blue Streaks used a 17-7 run to start the second half to pull away for its second straight victory. The win also ended an 11-day layout for JCU. In the victory, Rachael Price and Jessica Gibbons led the Streaks' in scoring with 12 and 11 points, respectively. JCU outrebounded Goucher, 44-36, and forced Goucher into committing 28 turnovers.
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Budge Named Tournament Most Valuable Player -- Selena Eskinazi-Budge, who transferred to B-W this summer from NCAA Division I the University of Miami of Florida, was named as the Wittenberg University Charles B. Zimmerman Kiwanis Holiday Tournament Most Valuable Player for her efforts in victories against Centre (Ky.) College, 82-41, and host Wittenberg, 69-53.
In the two games and 34 minutes of playing time, Budge scored 31 points, grabbed four rebounds, made four steals (all converted into easy layups) and blocked a shot. She made 14-of-19 shots from the floor, including two-of-four threepointers. She scored a game-high 17 points in the championship game and made eight-of-10 shots from the floor in 15 minutes of action.
Mondrach Named to the All-Tournament Team -- Amanda Mondrach joined Selena Eskinazi-Budge on the alltournament team. Mondrach scored 26 points, grabbed eight rebounds, passed for three assists, made a steal and blocked a shot. She canned 10-of-16 shots from the floor.
Third "Elite Eight" Appearance in NCAA Tourney in Last Eight Years -- When B-W played in the "Elite Eight" of the 2005-2006 NCAA Division III National Tournament, it marked the thid time in school history and the third time in the past eight years.
Ten Straight 20-Win Seasons for B-W -- The B-W women have 10 straight seaons with 20 or more victories.
Cheri Harrer is the Winningest Women's Coach in B-W History -- Yellow Jacket veteran Head Coach Cheri Harrer is the winningest women's basketball coach in B-W history with 338 victories. Harrer is 338-120 in her career with a .738 winning percentage and is in her 17th season at B-W.
Current National Rankings -- B-W was ranked third in the last WBCA (Women's Basketball Coaches Association) Division III poll and eighth in the d3hoops.com poll. The "OFFICIAL" Division III Great Lakes Region poll, which is selected by the NCAA Selection Committee does not come out until after January 1, 2007. The NCAA Selection Committee uses that poll as criterion to decide who gets into the 2007 NCAA Division III National Tournament.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, Please visit the Baldwin-Wallace Athletics website at www.bw.edu/athletics for up to date results and statistics. For further inquiries, please contact B-W SID Kevin Ruple by phone at (440) 826-2327, by FAX at (440) 826-2329 or via e-mail at kruple@bw.edu. B-W Head Coach Cheri Harrer can be reached by phone at (440) 826-3299, by FAX at (440) 826-2192 or via e-mail at charrer@bw.edu.
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