WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. — The Niagara University women’s Purple Eagles basketball team will take on the Monmouth Hawks at 2 p.m. Sunday at OceanFirst Bank Center.
The Purple Eagles fell to Rider, 62-41, on Friday. Victoria Rampado led the Purple Eagles in scoring with 12 points and in rebounding with six rebounds. Kaylee Stroemple added 10 points for NU and brought down five rebounds. Morgan Baughman and Kharysma Bryant had a team-high two steals each and Jamie Sherburne led the team in assists with three.
Redshirt-junior forward Rampado leads the Purple Eagles in scoring with 16.5 points per game and in rebounding with 8.0 rebounds per game. Rampado is third in the MAAC in scoring and fourth in rebounding. Junior forward Stroemple also averages in double figure scoring with 12.8 points per game. She is 12th in the MAAC in scoring. Stroemple has the second-best field goal percentage in the MAAC; she is 143-for-283 for a percentage of 50.5. Sherburne, a junior guard, has the tenth-most assists in the MAAC with 2.9 assists per game. Niagara is second in the MAAC in 3-point field goal percentage; the team is 155-for-474 (32.7%), is second in free throw percentage (74.2%) and is third in the MAAC in overall field goal percentage (40.2%).
Freshman guard Kayla Shaw leads the Hawks in scoring with 11.5 points per game. Shaw leads the MAAC in 3-point field goal percentage; she is 84-for-203 for a percentage of 41.4. Christina Mitchell, a senior forward, averages a team-best 6.8 rebounds per game. She is eighth in the MAAC in rebounding. Mitchell ranks fifth in the conference in blocked shots with 1.3 blocks per game. Freshman guard Alaina Jarnot is fourth in the MAAC in assists, averaging 3.3 per game. The Hawks lead the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (33.6%). They are second in blocked shots (3.7 blocks per game) and fourth in scoring offense (65.4 points per game) and steals (8.9 steals per game).
The Purple Eagles, who have secured the ninth seed, will play next on Thursday against the eighth seed in the first round of the MAAC Tournament at the Times Union Center in Albany.
from PurpleEagles.com via IFTTT
