Presbyterian College vs. Campbell
Tuesday, January 27 - 7 p.m.
Templeton Coliseum - Clinton, S.C.
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CLINTON, S.C. - Presbyterian College women's basketball (10-9, 5-5 Big South) returns home for the final home game in January to take on the Campbell Camels (11-8, 6-4 Big South) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Blue Hose completed their first trip through Big South opponents at 5-5 and look to exact a measure of revenge on the Camels, who took the first meeting on December 30 in a 58-45 win in Buies Creek. PC saw a three-game winning streak snapped on Saturday at Winthrop while Campbell aims to put the skids on a two-game slump of its own following road defeats to Coastal Carolina and Liberty.
Campbell's win on December 30 evened up the all-time series at 4-4. The Camels have beaten PC twice in a row only once in the series history and the Blue Hose hold a 2-2 record against Campbell at the Templeton Center. Freshman Janie Miles led PC with 14 points in the last meeting, with Keyonna Allen adding 10 points and eight rebounds. PC's 30.2 shooting percentage in the last game marked the team's third-worst shooting effort in Big South play this season and PC went only 3-for-17 from distance.
Campbell enters the week with an 11-8 overall record and a 6-4 marker in Big South action. The Camels won six out of seven before Coastal Carolina and Liberty handed the team a pair of losses last week. Amanda Coffer leads the team with 12.1 points per game while Kiera Gaines adds 12.0 points and 8.3 rebounds to the League's best passing team in Big South play (15.7 assists per game).
Over the last five games, Keyonna Allen leads the team with 12.2 points and 1.8 steals to pace PC in those categories. Aianna Kelly's 6.0 rebounds stand as a team-best and Cortney Storey leads the team in assists, with 3.4 helpers over the team's last five.
PC hits the road for its next two games, a Saturday afternoon tilt at UNC Asheville (2 p.m., ESPN3) before playing at Gardner-Webb on Monday, February 2.
PC led for 31:54 of its Saturday afternoon road game at Winthrop on Saturday, but the host Eagles pulled away in the closing minutes for a 54-51 win at Winthrop Coliseum. Keyonna Allen led PC with 12 points, 10 of which came in the second half. Allie Wagner made her second career start and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.
Keyonna Allen scored 17 points against Charleston Southern and 12 against Winthrop. She has scored in double figures nine times this season and needs to break the 10-point plateau against Campbell on Tuesday to tie her longest double-figures streak of the season at three games, set against Allen, Western Carolina and Xavier. She leads the team with 9.5 points and ranks second with 6.1 rebounds per game. Out of 19 games, she has led the team in points six times, rebounds nine times, blocks seven times and steals seven times. The redshirt junior enters the week with a career shooting percentage of 48.9 percent.
PC led at halftime and outshot Winthrop on Saturday, 42.3 percent to 36.0 percent, in the team's three-point loss. The Blue Hose enter the week now 9-2 when leading at the break, 3-1 when shooting 40 percent and 10-6 when they hold their foe to less than 40 percent (out of 19 games). The loss also marked only the team's second in the state of South Carolina (8-2) and when playing on Saturday (6-2).
Head coach Ronny Fisher, in his seventh season at the helm, needs one more win for his 74th career victory, which would tie both Randy Randall (1977-84) and Byron Rucker (1984-89) in second in Presbyterian College history. Beth Couture holds the record, with 238 wins amassed from 1989 to 2002.
The Blue Hose boast the nation's fourth-ranked scoring defense, holding opponents to an average of 50.2 points per game. PC held Charleston Southern to 40 points on Tuesday and NC Central to 33 on December 20.
PC hits the road for its next two games, a Saturday afternoon tilt at UNC Asheville (2 p.m., ESPN3) before playing at Gardner-Webb on Monday, February 2.
