NOTES: Truman Marches In To Gateway City To Face Saints; Tritons

Truman Women's Basketball Notes (January 19)
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Game #17: Truman (8-8; 3-4 GLVC) vs. Maryville (6-8, 2-5 GLVC)
When: Thursday, January 19, 2017 || 5:30 p.m.
Where: St. Louis, Missouri || Moloney Arena
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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – With only four road games left in the regular season, the Truman Women's Basketball team will cut that in half with a trip to St. Louis for a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference games. The Bulldogs will open the trip at Maryville University on Thursday night at 5:30 p.m.

Following this trip, seven of the final nine games will be played in the friendly confines of Pershing Arena but standing in the way will be the Saints on Thursday followed by the University of Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday afternoon.

The Saints had lost seven of their previous seven games but stunned #19 Lewis University on their home court 77-72 on Saturday and rolled that momentum over to a 62-50 win over crosstown rival Missouri-St. Louis on Monday night.

Truman had their three-game winning streak derailed at home last week with losses to the top two teams in the GLVC East Division. The Bulldogs battled Southern Indiana to 10 ties and 10 lead changes but could not overcome the Screaming Eagles down the stretch in a 72-67 defeat. On Saturday, Truman squared off against #4 Bellarmine and for the first time all season, never took a lead during the game as the Knights methodically pulled away for an 89-77 win.

The Bulldogs played their first five GLVC games on the road before last week's homestand against USI and Bellarmine. Truman is 3-4 in the GLVC and are a half game behind William Jewell for third place in the West Division. Drury leads the division with a 7-0 record followed by Rockhurst at 5-2. Missouri-St. Louis (2-4) and Maryville (2-5) trail the Bulldogs and Missouri S&T (1-6) and Quincy (1-6) are bringing up the rear.

Truman is averaging 72.1 points per game while giving up 65.8 points. The Bulldogs are shooting 41% overall, 31% from long range and 71% from the line. In conference games, Truman scores at a 69.3 points per game clip but gives up 68.3 points. Shooting wise in league, the Bulldogs hit 40% of their shots, 26% from range and 67.8% at the line.

The Starting Five:
Senior Cassidy Clark notched her fifth 20+-point game this season with 20 against the Knights and scored in double-figures in her 11^th straight game. Clark is tied for second with Drury's Heather Harman in scoring during league games at 18.9 points per game and eighth in overall scoring at 15.8. She is also sixth in rebounds (7.9) and seventh in field goal percentage (55.4%). In fact, her 55.4% field goal percentage would be third best in Truman single-season history behind Carol Jarrard's 1979 mark of 59.9% and Georgia Mueller's 2008 56.4% if the season ended right now.

Joining Clark in the starting five this season has been junior Ashley Hartwig (10.4 ppg/5.7 rpg), sophomores Brooke Bailey (9.0 ppg/2.3 apg) and Rachel Edmundson (12.1 ppg/4.9 rpg) and freshman Sloane Totta (6.6 ppg/2.1 apg).

Hartwig is second in the GLVC in overall free throw percentage at 84.2% and is ranked 17^th in rebounding at 5.7 per contest. She was in double-figures in both games last week with 11 against USI and 14 against Bellarmine.

Bailey has averaged 3.29 assists in the seven conference games this year with six dimes apiece in games against Illinois Springfield and McKendree. She is the team's leading three-point shooter with 29 makes this season. Bailey scored a season-high 16 points in the Bulldogs league win at Quincy on December 10.

???????Edmundson is second on the team in scoring at 12.1 points and has been the team's leading scorer in five games this year. She scored 27 points in a loss at Missouri Southern on November 22. Edmunson is second in three-pointers with 23 and shoots 34% from distance.

???????Totta has started every game as a true freshman and has made 17 three-pointers and dished out 34 assists. She is coming off a 10-point game against Bellarmine on Saturday and matched her season-high five rebounds in the game.

Off The Bench:
Freshman Eleanor Lueke has the highest minutes average of any bench player this season and is the only other player outside of the starting five that has appeared in all 16 games. She make one start, against Iowa Wesleyan on December 31 and is averaging 5.1 points per game with a season high of 11 against two opponents.

Junior transfer Jamie Gleeson has been involved in 15 games and is averaging 8.9 minutes and 2.9 points per game. She scored a season-high seven points last Saturday against Bellarmine and had two blocks against Illinois Springfield on January 5.

Junior Montira Mosby and sophomores Kennedy Martin and Sam Andrews provided minutes in a majority of the games off the bench. Mosby averages 13.1 minutes in 13 games played and 3.9 points per game mark. Her season high is 11 against Oklahoma Panhandle State on November 26. Martin has played around seven minutes per her 14 games this season with 10 of her 19 rebounds coming on the offensive end.
Andrews has averaged 9.5 minutes in 13 games and has scored 3.9 points per game.

About Maryville
New Head Coach Collin Lanam's team won three of their first five games but then dropped six of their next seven including five conference games before Saturday's road tilt at #19 Lewis. Mary Barton scored a career-high 24 points, including seven three-pointers in the Saints upset over the Flyers 77-72. Maryville outscored Lewis from distance 39-6 while also overcoming an 18-for-19 performance by the Flyer's Jessica Kelliher (38 points).

Barton became eligible for Maryville at semester after initially signing to play for Truman out of high school. She has started four of the seven games played and is averaging 11.9 points and shooting 54.8% from three (17-of-31).

Stephanie Sherwood is Maryville's leading scorer at 12.2 points per game She has made 31 treys out of 70 attempts (39.2%). Alex Wolf leads the team in boards at 8.1 per night and averages 8.7 points per game.

The Saints have held opponents to 58.4 points per game and only 24.5% shooting from three. They average 58.5 points on the offensive end and make 37% (7.4) from three.

Series History:
The Bulldogs are 6-2 and have won the last two meetings with Maryville. The two teams met in the 2014 GLVC Postseason Tournament Championship game with the Bulldogs prevailing 58-45.

In Truman's last visit to Moloney Arena in 2015, the Bulldogs saw a seven-point lead with 2:38 to play evaporate and the game went to overtime. After giving up the initial basket to start the extra five minutes,
Truman scored nine of the next 11 points and eventually won 78-72.

Last year in Kirksville, the Bulldogs blitzed the Saints for a 25-10 first quarter en route to an 80-60 home win. Senior Courtney Strait led Truman with 14 points while going over the 1,000 career point total in the contest. Ali Ringering scored 22 for the Saints. Truman shot 47% from the field during the game comparted to the 34% for Maryville.

???????Bellarmine Recap:

It was the first game this season that Truman never led as they fell to the fourth ranked Knights 89-77 on Saturday afternoon.
Raven Merriweather led all scorers with 28 points for Bellarmine and Truman got 20 points from Cassidy Clark despite only four minutes of action in the first half.
The Knights scored the first seven points but Brooke Bailey's three-pointer tied the score at nine three minutes into the contest.
Ashley Hartwig's bucket with 28 seconds left in the first made it 28-23 in favor of the visiting team.
Hartwig tied it again at 28 apiece as Truman scored the first five points of the second quarter.
Following Destony Curry's three-pointer at the 5:29 mark, the Bulldogs held the Knights with six empty possessions the rest of the quarter. BU was 0-of-3 with three turnovers.
However, after Hartwig's bucket with 4:23 remaining, Truman went 0-of-7 from the field and could not trim into the lead.
Bellarmine lead by 13 at half 46-33 with neither team scoring over the final 3:25.
Merriweather was 7-of-7 in the first half with two three-pointers and Kelsey Adwell was 4-of-4 off the bench in the first half.
Truman had chances to get the lead below 10 in the third quarter after Sloane Totta's three-pointer to open the half but came up empty at the foul line and from distance in their next two possessions.
Katie Downey's hoop gave Bellarmine their largest lead 69-32 near the end of the quarter.
A 10-2 run by Truman with three-pointers from Eleanor Lueke and Totta got the lead down to 10 at 83-73 with 1:26 left, however baskets from Whitney Hartlage and Beth Bowers pushed the margin out to 14 and sealed the win.
Adwell and Curry each added 16 with Adwell going 6-of-7 from the field and Curry 5-of-9.
Clark scored 18 of her 20 points in the second half going 7-of-9 from the field and 6-of-9 from the stripe. It was Clark's fifth 20+ game this season and third in the last four games.
Hartwig tallied 14 points and went over the 500 career point mark at Truman as a junior.
The Knights shot 73% in the first quarter and finished at 57% for the game.
Bellarmine's leading scoring coming into the game, Sarah Galvin (16.0 ppg) was limited to two points on 0-of-7 shooting and three turnovers. Galvin was the GLVC Tournament MVP last season and a first-team all-conference player.
Truman shot 45% overall and 37% from three.
Each team had six three-pointers and 16 turnovers, however Bellarmine had 12 steals to Truman's six.

Around the GLVC:
All teams with the exception of William Jewell and McKendree have now played seven league games. Four conference games took place as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday on Monday with Bellarmine knocking off Southern Indiana 88-83 in a battle for the top spot in the GLVC East, Maryville winning the crosstown classic with Missouri-St. Louis 62-50, Illinois Springfield defeating McKendree 59-53 and Indianapolis nearly doubling up Saint Joseph's 83-44 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse (home of the Indiana Pacers).

William Jewell and McKendree were postponed on Saturday due to weather and will make up the game at a later date.

Lewis' sophomore Jessica Kelliher scored a GLVC season best 38 points on 18-of-19 shots on Saturday against Maryville and leads the conference in scoring at 24.0 points in seven league games and 20.4 points overall. Rockhurst senior Mary Dineen is second in scoring overall at 18.6 points followed by Lewis senior Jamie Johnson at 18.4 points.

In conference only, Truman's Cassidy Clark is tied for second behind Kelliher at 18.9 points with Drury's junior Heather Harman.

???????Bellarmine leads the East and Drury leads the West with 7-0 records. The two division champions followed by the next two best conference winning percentages get first round byes in the GLVC Tournament. The next four teams (5-8) will host 9-12 in on-campus games on Sunday, February 26.

Up Next:
Truman will be looking for a measure of revenge against Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday when they take to the floor at 1 p.m. The Tritons rallied from 10 points down to defeat the Bulldogs 80-70 in a non-conference clash on December 19 in Kirksville.

Five Tritons scored in double figures led by Laura Szorenyi's 24 points. Szorenyi was 4-of-5 from three-point range including a clutch triple with UMSL leading by two points with 25 seconds left to play. Cassidy Clark led Truman with 18 points.

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Players Mentioned

#23 Courtney Strait: G; 5' 10"; Senior

#40 Sam Andrews: F; 5' 11"; Junior

#02 Brooke Bailey: G; 5' 6"; Redshirt Sophomore

#34 Cassidy Clark: C; 6' 2"; Senior

#31 Rachel Edmundson: F; 6' 0"; Sophomore

#42 Ashley Hartwig: F; 5' 11"; Junior

#20 Kennedy Martin: F; 5' 10"; Junior

#35 Montira Mosby: F; 5' 10"; Junior

#04 Sloane Totta: G; 5' 9"; Freshman

#05 Eleanor Lueke: G; 5' 10"; Freshman

#25 Jamie Gleeson: F; 6' 0"; Junior

Players Mentioned

#23 Courtney Strait
: 5' 10"; Senior
: G

#40 Sam Andrews
: 5' 11"; Junior
: F

#02 Brooke Bailey
: 5' 6"; Redshirt Sophomore
: G

#34 Cassidy Clark
: 6' 2"; Senior
: C

#31 Rachel Edmundson
: 6' 0"; Sophomore
: F

#42 Ashley Hartwig
: 5' 11"; Junior
: F

#20 Kennedy Martin
: 5' 10"; Junior
: F

#35 Montira Mosby
: 5' 10"; Junior
: F

#04 Sloane Totta
: 5' 9"; Freshman
: G

#05 Eleanor Lueke
: 5' 10"; Freshman
: G

#25 Jamie Gleeson
: 6' 0"; Junior
: F