Women’s basketball seems to continue to sneak into Western Virginia Weslian – University Athletics on Wheels

Wheeling, W. VA.-After a difficult start in January, the Women’s Women’s Basketball Team (12-8, 8-4) sneaked in February, playing part of her best protection of the season. The Cardinals seem to continue this roll on Wednesday as they take a trip to Buckhanon, West Virginia, to take Western Virginia Weslian at 5:30 pm. Willing’s defense is the driving force for the success of the team during this series, which allows only 51.6 PPG during this section.

The Cardinals were on Saturday as they traveled to West Virginia and wanted to maintain their defense success. This cardinal defense has made its presence known since the beginning, they kept the yellow jackets up to seven points from the first quarter, which allowed the team to go only 3-13 (23.08%) from the floor. However, the cardinals were held only up to 11 points from their own and held a four -point lead in the second quarter. However, the cardinal crime will not be delayed for long, raising the matches 22 points before the half. He blew up the cardinal lead to 33-20 when the team headed for half-time. The key to the success of the cardinal was their ability to limit the yellow jackets of three -point range, which allows only one game with three indicators. Despite the back and forth in the second half, which saw that Willing has only 26-25 advantages, early success was enough to move the cardinals to victory.

The leading road to the cardinals was Emilia Sierra Lulistawho scored a team of 15 points while using Triton to lead the road. She would end the day by going 4-7 (57.1%) of a three-point scope, with four of her five overall shots in the day coming from long distances. The freshman leads the team with 88 trials for three points this season and is currently ranked third with .330 percent of firing beyond the arc. After being detained from the board in each of the last two games, it was a pleasant impetus for the freshman to return to double numbers. This season, she sits right in front of average double -digit, an average of 9.4 points per game, but her three -point effectiveness was one of the team’s driving forces during this winning series.

Cardinals also received another big performance from their other excellent freshman KRISTEL RATTASEPPS After putting a high career on Wednesday against Charleston, Ratasep returned on Saturday, ending with 13 points. This has made two -digit performances for a freshman and the third time in her last five games, which she has reached double figures. She is currently sitting second in the team with 11.1 points per game and holding 36.8% of the floor this season. The girl above her is Rachel WilsonWho was the last two -digit cardinal goal scorer with 12 points. Along with his violation work, Wilson also crashes the boards throughout the season and leads the cardinals with nine fights. It leads the team on average both 11.4 PPG and 9.2 REB/G, while leading the five -double -pair road during the season.

When they enter the last four -week section of the season, it remains a strict race up and down the Mountain East Conference (MEC) ranking. After 2-0 weeks against Charleston and West Virginia, the Cardinals ended up second in the conference with their opponent Wednesday night Western Virginia Weslian. Cardinals are about to reach a place in the MEC tournament, with their magic number sitting at 6, and they just sit in 2.5 games behind the Fairmont State for the first place in the conference. Wheeling will look like their momentum is rolling against a hot team of Western Virginia Weslian, who enters the game on Wednesday, won three straight.

The match

Cardinals and Bobcats meet for the 40th time in the history of the program on Wednesday, with Willing leading the series in 23-16. When the teams meet in Buckhanon, West Virginia, they are all tied to 10-10, with the Cardinals winning the last three games played in Western Virginia Weslian. It was a low series of points late, with the winning team not scoring more than 65 points in four of the previous five games.

The only exception to this rule was the last time Willing fell to Bobcats at home back on December 7, 71-59. Cardinals were led by KRISTEL RATTASEPPwhich ended with 14 points, including three triangers per day. Out of the bench, Mach Minte Add 14 points to the cardinals while Rachel Wilson He led the road with eight rebounds to go with eight points a day.

Details

The advice for the game on Wednesday night is scheduled for 5:30 pm inside the center of Rockefeller in the campus of Western Virginia Weslian. You can watch the game live by clicking Here or follow with live statistics by clicking HereS