LAST TIME OUTUrsuline opened the 2015-16 campaign with a 77-63 road win over Mount Vernon on Saturday. The Arrows had four players finish in double figures paced by Laney Lewis who had 17. Junior Erica Huber finished with 16 points and a career-high eight steals.
Lake Erie competed in the G-MAC/GLIAC Crossover Challenge and defeated Salem International 82-57 on Saturday night. On Sunday, they defeated another G-MAC team in Ohio Valley by a score of 74-45.
SCOUTING URSULINEReturning in the backcourt for Ursuline will be junior Erica Huber (Anna/Anna) who as a freshman won the G-MAC Freshman of the Year and last season averaged 10.5 points per game along with 3.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds. Huber was fourth in the conference in steals per game (1.9) and eighth in minutes played with an average of 33.1 per contest.
The front court returns a pair of sophomores in Camille Gist (Toledo/Toledo Christian) and Camryn Hill (Strongsville/Strongsville) who both played significant time in 2014-15. This unit will get a boost from the return of redshirt sophomore Laney Lewis (Lynchburg/Lynchburg Clay) who missed last season due to an injury. In 29 games last season, Gist averaged 5.8 points per game and pulled down 2.9 rebounds. Hill played in all 29 games and started 15 while averaging 6.3 points per game and 5.8 rebounds.
SCOUTING LAKE ERIE Lake Erie opened its season with back-to-back wins over G-MAC teams in the G-MAC/GLIAC challenged hosted at Lake Erie over the weekend. Lake Erie defeated Salem International 82-57 on Saturday and knocked off Ohio Valley 74-45 on Sunday.
THE COACHES Shannon Sword, the fourth head coach in UC basketball history, turned around the program in her second season. After going 4-22 and winless in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference in 2012-13, the Arrows finished the 2013-14 season at 14-14 overall and 8-8 in conference play. It was just the third time in the 13-year history of the program that a team had a winning percentage of .500 or better and first since 2008-09.
The 14 wins in 2013-14 were one win shy of tying the school record for most in a season, set in 2006-07. It becomes more impressive when you take into account that three freshmen (Jenny Grigsby, Erica Huber and Tajanee Wells) started all 28 games in 2013-14 and junior Emma Ricketts, a transfer in her first year with the program, made 25 starts.
Sword pushed her team to get out and run and the 2013-14 team averaged 76.5 points per game, up from 53 points per game the year before.
A 41-year veteran in the coaching world, head coach Bob Booher is in his eleventh season with the Lake Erie College women's basketball program. After nine complete seasons with the Storm, Booher is the winningest coach in program history.
Booher has been at the helm for the biggest moments in program history, including a spectacular record-setting 18-9 season in 2009-10, the Storm's second as a member of NCAA Division II. That season, Lake Erie set a school record for wins, was ranked 10th in the Great Lakes Region and Booher was named national Division II Independent Coach of the Year. In 2011-12, he guided the Storm to a 16-11 overall record and qualified for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tournament for the first time in just the team's second year in the league viewed by many as the best in the country. That team featured a first-team All-GLIAC selection, three first team Capital One Academic All-District IV First Team picks and posted the nation's third best team grade point average in all of Division II.
Projected Starters Lake Erie #11 Kayla Gabor (16.5ppg, 5.0rebounds
#33 Shelby Carpenter (13.5ppg, 2.0 assists)
#12 Carlye Garst (3.5ppg, 6.0 rebounds)
#4 Sami Narducci (3.0ppg, 3.0 assists)
#40 Kaeding Skelton (8.0ppg, 3.0 rebounds)
Ursuline #33 Camryn Hill (7.0ppg, 3.0 rebounds)
#21 Laney Lewis (17.0ppg, 7.0 rebounds)
#11 Natalie Koenig (15ppg, 3.0 steals)
#3 C.J. Jefferson (5.0ppg, 4.0 assists)
#5 Erica Huber (16.0ppg, 8.0 steals)
MEDIA COVERAGE The game will be live streamed with both video and audio on the UC Sports Network.
http://www.ursulinearrows.com/sports/2011/8/1/GEN_0801115954.aspx NEXT UP The Arrows hit the road this weekend as they will travel to Saint Joseph's College in Indiana to take on the Pumas on Saturday afternoon.
