EC Women's Basketball Game Notes - Games 1 & 2

ELMIRA COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES

THIS WEEK’S OPPONENTS Saturday, November 16, 2013 Bobbi Brown and Steven Plofker Gym - Boston, MA -- 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 17, 2013 Bobbi Brown and Steven Plofker Gym - Boston, MA -- TBA OR

Manhattanville College VALIANTS (0-0, 0-0 MAC)

Wentworth Institute of Technology LEOPARDS (0-0, 0-0 CCC)

2013-14 Schedule (0-0, 0-0 Empire 8) Day Date Opponent Time-Result NOV. 16 Manhattanville# 2:00 p.m.

17 Wentworth/Emerson# TBA

19 at Cortland 6:00 p.m.

23 Keystone 1:00 p.m.

DEC. 2 at Sage Colleges 6:00 p.m.

7 Clarkson 3:00 p.m.

14 at Penn Tech.

2:00 p.m.

JAN. 3 at Nazareth* 8:00 p.m.

4 St. John Fisher* 4:00 p.m.

7 Cazenovia 8:00 p.m.

10 at Utica* 8:00 p.m.

11 at Alfred* 4:00 p.m.

14 at Houghton 8:00 p.m.

21 at PSU-Abington 7:00 p.m.

24 at St. John Fisher* 8:00 p.m.

28 Ithaca* 8:00 p.m.

31 Houghton 8:00 p.m.

FEB. 1 Utica* 4:00 p.m.

4 Alfred* 8:00 p.m.

7 Hartwick* 8:00 p.m.

8 Stevens* 4:00 p.m.

14 at Ithaca* 8:00 p.m.

15 Nazareth* 4:00 p.m.

21 at Stevens* 8:00 p.m.

22 at Hartwick* 5:00 p.m.

Home contests are bolded *Denotes Empire 8 contest #Emerson Tip-Off Tournament

Emerson College LIONS (0-0, 0-0 NEWMAC)

Opening Weekend

For the first time since the 2008-09 season, the Elmira College women’s basketball team will open the season without playing Cortland State. Elmira begins their 2013-14 campaign by taking on Manhattanville College on a neutral court at the Emerson Tip-Off Tournament.

Season Openers

Elmira has struggled in season opening games over the last 12 seasons, going 3-9 in those contests. EC’s last season opening win came on November 11, 2007 when the Soaring Eagles topped Delaware Valley College, 73-52.

Veteran Status

A whopping 12 players from last year’s team are back for another run with the EC women’s basketball squad. It is the most returning players Head Coach Shannon Howley has had in her six seasons at the helm of the women’s basketball program

Most Wins in Five Years

Elmira produced a 9-16 record last season. EC’s nine wins is the most the program has had in five years – the Soaring Eagles totaled an identical 9-16 record in the 2008-09 season.

Quality from the Stripe

EC has three players that rank among the best free throw shooters in Elmira College history. Jessica Zoltowski ’14, Maria Thannhauser ’14 and Alex Balara ’15 are all inside the Top 11 in terms of free throw percentage in EC history. Thannhauser is fourth with a percentage of 78.5; Zoltowski is close behind at sixth at 75.9 and Balara is 11th at 74.2.

Sports Information: Don Sherman (dsherman@elmira.edu); Steffan Waters ’13 (stwaters@elmira.edu); Nick Zwald (nzwald@elmira.edu)

Phone: 607.735.1131 Fax: 607.735.1768 Website: athletics.elmira.edu Address: One Park Place, Elmira, NY 14904

2013-14 SOARING EAGLES BASKETBALL

Games 1 & 2: Elmira College vs. Manhattanville & Wentworth/Emerson

ELMIRA QUICK FACTS

Letting it Fly

Location ............................................................... Elmira, NY Founded...........................................................................1855 Enrollment.....................................................................1,200 School Colors................................................. Purple & Gold Team Nickname.............................................. Soaring Eagles Conference............................. Empire 8 Athletic Conference President...........................................Dr. Ronald Champagne Athletic Director.......................................Pat Thompson ’75 Athletic Department......................................... 607-735-1730 Basketball Arena ................................... Speidel Gymnasium Capacity .........................................................................1,500 Athletics Affiliation................................ NCAA Division III

First in the E8

Last season the Soaring Eagles launched 493 three-point attempts, connecting 129 times for an average of 5.2 three-point makes per game and a 5.4 average in Empire 8 Conference games. Elmira’s 5.2 makes per game was second most in the conference and their 5.4 makes in conference play led the Empire 8.

Aside from shooting the ball well from beyond the arc, the Elmira women found a great deal of success shooting from the charity stripe. The Soaring Eagles averaged a conference best 13.3 made free throws per contest.

Five or Less

Elmira had nine games last season that were decided by five points or less.

The Soaring Eagles went 3-6 in those games. However, Elmira figured out how to close out those tight games as all their last three games that were BASKETBALL INFORMATION Head Coach ................................................Shannon Howley decided by five or less resulted in wins.

Assistant Coach ................................................ Jessica Imhof Assistant Coach .............................................Brian Finucane First Season ............................................................... 1974-75 2012-13 Overall Record................................................... 9-16 2012-13 Empire 8 Record................................................ 4-10

Scoring Options

Elmira’s one-two punch of Jessica Zoltowski ’14 and Maria Thannhauser ’14 will be looked upon to carry the load offensively again for the Soaring Eagles. Last season the two classmates combined for 713 points, accounting for 49.76% of Elmira’s scoring.

Scoring Champ 2012-13 EMPIRE 8 STANDINGS

College Ithaca Hartwick Stevens St. John Fisher Utica Nazareth Elmira Houghton Alfred

LEAGUE W-L Pct. 13-1 0.929 10-4 0.714 8-6 0.571 7-7 0.500 7-7 0.500 7-7 0.500 4-10 0.286 0-0 0.000 0-14 0.000

OVERALL W-L-T Pct. Streak 27-3 0.900 L1 22-8 0.733 W3 14-13 0.519 L2 12-14 0.462 L2 12-13 0.480 L2 10-15 0.400 L1 9-16 0.360 W1 10-15 0.400 L2 6-19 0.240 L5

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Two-time Empire 8 All-Conference First Team selection Jessica Zoltowski ’14 not only led Elmira, but the entire Empire 8 Conference in points per game with 16.9. She was one of only three players in the Empire 8 to average 16 points or more.

Scoring Title in Sight

After 423 points last season, Jess Zoltowski ’14 boasts a career total of 1,082. She is 376 points away from becoming Elmira’s all-time points leader, eclipsing EC’s current all-time leader, Mary Kay Babcock ’82.

Seriously, Every Major Category

Zoltowski had a monster season in 2012-13. She singlehandedly led the Soaring Eagles in every major statistical category. Points Per Game: 16.9 – Rebounds Per Game: 7.7 – Assists Per Game: 2.0 – Steals Per Game: 2.5 – Blocks Per Game: 0.6.

Looking for Her Third Straight

Zoltowski has led the Soaring Eagles in scoring in each of the last two seasons. She will be looking to become the first player in Elmira College history to lead the Purple and Gold in scoring in three consecutive seasons since Mary Kay Babcock ’82 did it four times in a row from 1979-83.

Scouting the Valiants

Manhattanville enters the 2013-14 season after going 10-14 the previous year. The Valiants will be missing their leading scorer from a season ago in Taylor Wilson ‘13, who, led the Freedom Conference with a league best 19.0 points per game. However, Manhattanville does return the Freedom Conference’s leading rebounder in junior forward Alyson Caiazzo.

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2013-14 SOARING EAGLES BASKETBALL

Games 1 & 2: Elmira College vs. Manhattanville & Wentworth/Emerson

2013-14 ELMIRA COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NO. NAME 2 Karli Pochkar ’16 4 Alex Balara ’15 5 Carlene Fields ’16 10 Tempestt Black ’14 11 Allie Olsen ’16 12 Breen Loney ’14 20 Liz Forrest ’14 21 Jessica Brooks ’16 22 Jessica Zoltowski ’14 24 Maria Thannhauser ’14 25 Kelsey Geisler ’15 33 Meghan Loya ’16 34 Marissa Silverman ’17

COACHING STAFF

Head Coach: Shannon Howley Assistant Coach: Jessica Imhof Assistant Coach: Brian Finucane

POS. C-F G G G G G-F G-F G-F G G G F G

HT. 5’9” 5’7” 5’4” 5’6” 5’7” 5’8” 5’9” 5’9” 5’9” 5’8” 5’5” 5’10” 5’8”

HOMETOWN East Worcester, NY Marlton, NJ Lansing, NY Wolcott, NY Glenmont, NY West Chesterfield, NH North Walpole, NH Greene, NY Erie, PA Newfield, NY Staten Island, NY Bethel, CT South Windsor, CT

SECONDARY SCHOOL Worcester Gloucester Catholic Lansing North-Rose Wolcott Bethlehem Central Keene Fall Mountain Greene Central Harbor Creek Newfield St. Peter’s Immaculate South Windsor

PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Karli Pochkar............................................... POCH-ker Alex Balara................................................. Ba-LAIR-uh Breen Loney.......................................................LO-nee Jessica Zoltowski.........................................ZOL-tow-ski Maria Thannhauser................................. TAN-how-ser Kelsey Geisler............................................... GUISE-ler Meghan Loya.....................................................LOY-uh

ELMIRA COLLEGE CAPTAINS

Liz Forrest ’14

Maria Thannhauser ’14

Jessica Zoltowski ’14

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2013-14 SOARING EAGLES BASKETBALL

Games 1 & 2: Elmira College vs. Manhattanville & Wentworth/Emerson

2012-13 EC Women's Basketball Elmira College Combined Team Statistics (as of Nov 14, 2013) All games RECORD: ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE

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22 24 20 04 34 25 02 10 23 21 12 03 05 11 44

Player

Jessica Zoltowski Maria Thannhauser Liz Forrest Alex Balara Meghan Loya Kelsey Geisler Karli Pochkar Tempestt Black Sam Strzepek Jessica Brooks Breen Loney Marki Michaels Carlene Fields Allie Olsen Erin Renken Team Total..........

Opponents......

TEAM STATISTICS SCORING Points per game Scoring margin FIELD GOALS-ATT Field goal pct 3 POINT FG-ATT 3-point FG pct 3-pt FG made per game FREE THROWS-ATT Free throw pct F-Throws made per game REBOUNDS Rebounds per game Rebounding margin ASSISTS Assists per game TURNOVERS Turnovers per game Turnover margin Assist/turnover ratio STEALS Steals per game BLOCKS Blocks per game ATTENDANCE Home games-Avg/Game Neutral site-Avg/Game

gp-gs

OVERALL 9-16 4-10 5-6

HOME 6-5 3-4 3-1

Total 3-Point min avg fg-fga fg% 3fg-fga 3fg%

25-25 24-20 25-25 24-20 19-14 21-10 20-10 22-0 21-0 11-0 20-0 24-1 20-0 3-0 4-0

923 711 775 647 395 416 324 237 164 30 174 156 114 3 4

25 25

5073 5093

36.9 29.6 31.0 27.0 20.8 19.8 16.2 10.8 7.8 2.7 8.7 6.5 5.7 1.0 1.0

ECWB1213 1433 57.3 -2.2 486-1458 .333 129-493 .262 5.2 332-493 .673 13.3 918 36.7 -1.7 237 9.5 407 16.3 +3.4 0.6 234 9.4 53 2.1 2418 11-220 -

145-395 99-270 62-176 51-194 28-86 28-89 20-57 12-50 14-59 6-10 6-25 10-31 5-14 0-0 0-2

.367 .367 .352 .263 .326 .315 .351 .240 .237 .600 .240 .323 .357 .000 .000

42-139 28-99 19-62 14-66 0-1 11-53 0-0 0-2 10-46 1-4 1-4 2-13 1-4 0-0 0-0

486-1458 .333 129-493 522-1277 .409 91-319

OPP 1489 59.6 522-1277 .409 91-319 .285 3.6 354-508 .697 14.2 960 38.4 314 12.6 492 19.7 0.6 194 7.8 101 4.0 2143 12-171 2-44

.302 .283 .306 .212 .000 .208 .000 .000 .217 .250 .250 .154 .250 .000 .000

AWAY 3-9 1-6 2-3

F-Throw ft-fta ft%

91-117 64-89 44-60 41-63 19-30 13-23 15-25 22-40 0-0 4-4 17-29 0-4 2-9 0-0 0-0

.778 .719 .733 .651 .633 .565 .600 .550 .000

1.000

.586 .000 .222 .000 .000

.262 332-493 .673 .285 354-508 .697

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Date 11/15/12 11/17/12 11/25/12 11/27/12 11/30/12 12/01/12 12/04/12 12/07/12 12/15/12 12/30/12 12/31/12 1/8/13 1/11/13 01/12/13 01/15/13 1/19/13 01/22/13 01/25/13 01/26/13 02/01/13 2/05/13 02/09/13 02/09/13 02/15/13 02/16/13

off

Rebounds def tot avg

NEUTRAL 0-2 0-0 0-2

pf dq

46 147 193 7.7 44 29 65 94 3.9 54 50 59 109 4.4 51 39 69 108 4.5 56 32 34 66 3.5 42 17 25 42 2.0 55 26 20 46 2.3 26 23 23 46 2.1 19 5 11 16 0.8 25 3 3 6 0.5 4 24 23 47 2.4 19 7 6 13 0.5 10 2 15 17 0.9 28 0 2 2 0.7 2 0 0 0 0.0 0 59 54 113 362 556 918 36.7 435 268 692 960 38.4 454

Opponent SUNY CORTLAND at Keystone College at Wells SAGE COLLEGES at Clarkson University at St. Lawrence University at Ithaca at St. John Fisher College PENN TECH vs Fitchburg State vs Maine Maritime at Alfred University NAZARETH COLLEGE at Houghton College ITHACA at Utica College HOUGHTON COLLEGE HARTWICK COLLEGE STEVENS ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE ALFRED UNIVERSITY at Stevens at Hartwick College at Nazareth UTICA COLLEGE

0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

a

50 45 25 38 16 17 7 8 10 0 8 4 8 0 1

to blk stl

90 48 53 34 28 41 25 31 6 2 20 8 8 0 1 12 4 237 407 - 314 492

L L W W W L L Lot W L L W L L L L W L L W W L L L Wot

15 3 11 9 7 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

63 38 20 42 9 13 7 13 5 3 8 6 6 0 1

pts

avg

423 290 187 157 75 80 55 46 38 17 30 22 13 0 0

16.9 12.1 7.5 6.5 3.9 3.8 2.8 2.1 1.8 1.5 1.5 0.9 0.7 0.0 0.0

53 234 1433 101 194 1489

57.3 59.6

Score 64-67 60-65 70-47 65-53 62-46 63-79 46-66 64-66 63-42 47-56 59-60 62-53 50-63 54-55 29-55 51-67 63-45 44-62 66-69 56-52 61-58 47-60 52-60 56-68 79-75

Att. 268 205 231 212 160 287 0 350 96 51 38 80 280 0 77 123 287 285 240 206 178 108 210 300 289

* - Conference game

Score by Periods 1st 2nd OT Totals Elmira College 653 757 23 1433 Opponents 703 765 21 1489 4