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Wilkes (6-18, 2-11) at King's (15-9, 9-4)
Friday, February 18, 2011 / 1:00 p.m. 
McGrane / Wilkes-Barre, PA

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AT A GLANCE
The Lady Colonels wrap up their season as they travel to King's College for their end-of-season rivalry game with the Lady Monarchs. WU is coming off a loss at DeSales following the upset win over Delaware Valley last Saturday, while King's is in a four-way tie for the lead in the Freedom Conference. The Lady Colonels have dropped the last 12 of 13 in the series, but upset their rival in the second matchup of the 2008-09 season, 65-61 at home.

LAST TIME OUT
WU fell down early and was never able to get anything going, falling to DeSales 83-51 on the road Tuesday evening.

The Bulldogs took a commanding 21-8 lead by the 12:31 mark, playing pressuring defense and converting easy buckets. They were able to build a 26-point lead in the first half before going into the break up by 25.

In the second half DeSales continued its dominant play, leading by as many as 39 points before its ulimate 32-point win. Sr. G Sam Lynam (Spinnerstown/Quakertown) led the Lady Colonels with 18 points while So. G Megan Kazmerski (Kingston, PA/Holy Redeemer) nearly notched another double-double with 13 points and 9 rebounds.

REACHING 1,000
Sr. G Sam Lynam (Spinnerstown/Quakertown) became just the 9th WU player to reach the 1,000-point milestone when she scored 23 in the upset win over Delaware Valley last Saturday. She needed just 15 points to reach the mark as her free throw halfway through the second half after a layup and foul gave her the exact number.

BIG TIME SCORER
Lynam's 19.8 ppg is 2nd in the Freedom Conference and 15th in the nation. She's gone for 20 points nine times, including a 29-point effort against Manhattanville in January, and has hit 30 on two different ocassions, with a season-high 32 points in the Lady Colonels comeback win over Susquehanna.

Averaging 29.5 mpg, Lynam leads the conference with an 85.2 FT% (109-128) and is 2nd on the team with a 35.9 FG% (141-393).

HITTING DOUBLE-FIGURES
Lynam has scored in double-figures 52 times in 81 career games at WU, including 21 of the 22 games that she's played in this season. She's scored at least 20 points in her career 15 times, including three 30-point performances, with a career-high of 33 points coming against Arcadia as a sophomore.

DOUBLING HER EFFORTS
Averaging a career-high 19.8 ppg this season, Lynam is scoring nearly twice as much as her career average coming into the year of 10.2 ppg.

Helping her scoring totals rise has been an increase in her shooting efficiency. Coming into this season, Lynam had a 32.9 FG% and a 23.9 3FG%. So far this year, she's converting 35.9 pct of her FGs and 30.0 pct of her 3FGs. Her FT% has remained constant throughout her career, converting 83.2%.

FINDING HER GROOVE
After a slow start to the year, So. G Megan Kazmerski (Kingston, PA/Holy Redeemer) has improved her offensive game, reaching double-figures in scoring 17 times, including each of the past seven games. Over that stretch she's averaging 14.7 ppg and 7.9 rpg, compared to the season's first five games in which she averaged just 7.2 and 5.6.

Kazmerski scored a season-high 21 points against Delaware Valley, going 9-19 from the field, including 3-5 from 3. She scored 19 points in the huge comeback win at Cedar Crest and another 19 points at Manhattanville.

She's 2nd on the team with 11.7 ppg while averaging 31.3 mpg with 42 assists.

THE REBOUND LEADER
Kazmerski has also worked to become the Lady Colonels leading rebounder, grabbing 7.2 rpg from her guard position. She's led WU in rebounds 12 times this year, reaching double-figures five times and recording four double-doubles. She's grabbed 8.0 boards over a recent five-game stretch, including 13 each against King's and DeSales.

PICKING PASSES
In addition to scoring and rebounding, Kazmerski tops the Lady Colonels in steals, totaling 53 so far this season. Her 2.2 spg is 5th in the conference, getting 2+ swipes 17 times this year, and has 23 over the last eight games.

GETTING OFFENSIVE
After scoring 5.3 ppg last year, Jr. G Whitney Connolly (Liberty, PA/Liberty) has dramatically improved her offensive game, hitting double-figures in scoring 14 times this year, including a recent stretch of six games. Against DeSales, she set a new career-high with 18 points, going an incredible 12-12 at the line.

Over the past 11 games, Connolly is averaging 12.3 ppg and 6.4 rpg while hitting 51-59 FTs and dishing out 19 assists. She's scored at least 13 points in six of her last seven games, averaging 6.9 rpg over that span.

She's been excellent from the free throw line, as she's 2nd in the Freedom Conference with an 84.8 FT% and recently ended a streak where she had hit 25 straight. Through 24 games, Connolly is t-2nd with 5.5 rpg, 3rd on the team with 44 assists and 3rd with 10.3 ppg.

RUNNING THE POINT
So. G Amanda Pawlowski (Nanticoke, PA/Holy Redeemer) has been steady running the Lady Colonels offense this season, leading the team with 50 assists. She's dished at least one out in all 23 games she's played, getting 3 on six occasions and posting a season-high 4 against Albright.

Over a recent four game stretch, Pawlowski had an incredible 5.5 assist-turnover ratio, totaling 11 assists and just 2 turnovers while playing 31.8 mpg. For the season she's averaging 31.2 mpg, reaching double-figures in scoring twice, including a 12-point, 5-rebound, 3-assist performance against Baptist Bible.

PROVIDING A SPARK
So. G Angela Palmerio (Telford, PA/Lansdale Catholic) has given WU energy off the bench, scoring 4.4 ppg and grabbing 2.4 rpg. She has a team-leading 40.5 FG% (34-84), hitting an impressive 11-17 FGs (64.7 pct) over a recent four game stretch.

She's earned four starts, tying a season-high with 13 points and 3 boards against King's. Palmerio dropped 13 points in just 24 minutes against Western New England and is averaging 18.4 mpg.

STEPPING UP
Stepping into a more full-time role this year, Sr. G Erin Schneider (Colchester, CT/Holy Name) has produced, ranking 4th on the team with 6.5 ppg while dishing out 45 assists, 2nd on the team. Her 23 made 3s are 3rd on the team, as she's hit at least one in 14 of 24 games played.

Schneider has hit double-figures in scoring four times this season, getting a season-high 17 against MIT, going 6-11 from the field and 4-7 from 3 in 30 minutes. She also scored 10 points on 4-8 FGs against Misericordia, hitting 2-3 of her 3-point attempts and had 13 points, going 5-5 from the free throw line, against FDU.

ALL-AROUND THREAT
One of the most versitile players for the Lady Colonels, Sr. G Brittany Ely (Montrose/Montrose), as she's grabbed 5.8 rpg and 16 assists and 14 steals playing in just 11 games due to injury.

Ely posted her 2nd career double-double against Western New England with 12 points and a career-high 13 rebounds, adding 3 steals and 2 assists for WU. She's grabbed at least 6 rebounds in six games this year and has a team-leading 19 offensive boards.

OFF THE BENCH
So. F Sam Rohn (Levittown/Neshaminy) and Fr. G Helen Lawry (Glenville, NY/Burnt Hills - Ballston Lake) have given the Lady Colonels extra minutes off the bench this year, as Rohn averages 13.1 mpg and Lawry 17.9 mpg.

After averaging 1.8 rpg in her first four games played, Rohn picked it up, grabbing 3.1 rpg in 14.8 mpg in a recent five-game stretch, including 5 boards in a season-high 22 minutes against Eastern.

Lawry's minutes have remained steady in her 21 games this season, getting a season-high 23 against TCNJ and against against DeSales. She saw valuable minutes in crunch time in the comeback win over Cedar Crest, converting a go-ahead layup while scoring 6 points and 7 rebounds in 20 minutes. Earlier in the season, she scored 8 points and grabbed 3 boards in 22 minutes against Misericorida.

FROM THE FOUL LINE
The Lady Colonels have the top two free throw shooters in the conference, with Lynam at 85.2 pct. and Connolly at 84.8 pct. They also rank fairly high in the nation, each in the top 50.

As a team, the Lady Colonels are shooting 72.0 pct from the line, 2nd in the conference, and have been hot over the last 11 games, connecting on 78.4 pct of their shots (175-223), including a 17-18 performance against Eastern and went 15-16 in the comeback win over FDU.