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UC DAVIS AGGIES 2015-16 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL For immediate release... Jason Spencer | Assistant Director, Athletics Communications UC Davis Women’s Basketball Weekly Release #6 P: 530.752.2663 | C: 714.904.7547 | [email protected] 2015-16 SCHEDULE & RESULTS GAME 5: UC DAVIS AT PORTLAND STATE Sat. N7 HUMBOLDT STATE (ex.) W, 77-64 (ot) Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 • 7:00 p.m. PT • Stott Center (1,500) • Portland, Ore. • TV: None • Radio: KDVS 90.3 FM Fri. N13 STANFORD (DH) #16/14 L, 74-43 VIKINGS AGGIES Mon. N16 PACIFIC L, 66-53 Rankings (AP/USAT) .................... NR/NR Rankings (AP/USAT) .................... NR/NR Thurs. N19 at San Diego State W, 65-54 ‘15-16 Record (Big Sky) ............0-3 (0-0) ‘15-16 Record (BWC).................2-2 (0-0) Mon. N23 AIR FORCE W, 66-40 Head Coach ........................Lynn Kennedy Head Coach ....................... Jennifer Gross Fri. N27 at Portland State 7 p.m. Record at PSU .............0-3 (First Season) Record at UC Davis ..........................61-65 Sun. N29 at Portland 2 p.m. Thurs. D3 at Saint Mary’s 6 p.m. TIP OFF: Coming off its second consecutive wire-to-wire victory, the UC Davis Sun. D6 CAL STATE MONTEREY BAY 2 p.m. POSSIBLE STARTERS women’s basketball team (2-2) will spending the holiday giving thanks in the Pa- Sun. D13 SACRAMENTO STATE 2 p.m. cific Northwest, traveling to Portland, Oregon, for a pair of non-conference clashes DANI in the Rose City. The Aggies open their trip by taking on Portland State in a “Black NAFEKH Friday” battle on Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Stott Center. WOMEN OF TROY CLASSIC (Los Angeles, Calif.) 5-11 >> So. >> Guard Fri. D18 Florida A&M at USC 6 p.m. Oakville, Ontario, Canada IN THE POLLS: Neither UC Davis nor Portland State are ranked in either the Associ- Albany vs. UC Davis 8 p.m. ated Press or USA Today preseason polls entering this week’s game. Sun. D20 Consolation Game 1 p.m. “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?”: Thanks to a partnership with Arizona-based Stretch Championship Game 3 p.m. Internet, live Internet audio will be available for all of the Aggies’ contests this sea- PPG RPG APG son, as well as broadcast locally on KDVS 90.3 FM. Brian Fuller and Andy Clausen will handle the call for most of this year’s contests. Visit the women’s basketball Tues. D29 at Utah 7 p.m. MT 5.0 1.3 4.0 schedule page at UCDavisAggies.com to access the links. Thurs. D31 at Utah Valley 1 p.m. MT CELIA Thurs. J7 at CSUN* 7 p.m. “YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE”: Bringing together live and on-demand video from MARFONE each of the Big West Conference’s nine member institutions, Big West TV covers Sat. J9 HAWAI’I* 2 p.m. >> >> 6-0 Sr. Forward Big West sports, press conferences, interviews, and features, including every home Thurs. J14 UC IRVINE* (DH) 5:30 p.m. Laguna Hills, Calif. and conference contest. Now in its 12th year, Big West TV will again air all of the Thurs. J21 at UC Santa Barbara* 7 p.m. Aggies’ home and conference clashes FOR FREE during the 2015-16 campaign. Log on to www.bigwest.org/thisweek for weekly schedules or visit the women’s Sat. J23 at Cal Poly* 4 p.m. basketball schedule page at UCDavisAggies.com to access the links. Thurs. J28 LONG BEACH STATE* 7 p.m. Sat. J30 UC SANTA BARBARA* (DH) 3 p.m. PPG RPG FG% I NEED STATS, STAT!: Barring technical difficulties, live stats for all UC Davis home Thurs. F4 at UC Riverside* 7 p.m. 6.0 4.0 .444 games, as well as most road contests, are available on your computer and mobile device courtesy the StatBroadcast platform. Visit the women’s basketball schedule Sat. F6 at Cal State Fullerton* 4 p.m. ALYSON page at UCDavisAggies.com or UCDavisLiveStats.com to access the links. Wed. F10 CAL POLY* 7 p.m. DOHERTY Sat. F13 CAL STATE FULLERTON* (DH) 2 p.m. 6-3 >> Senior >> Center ABOUT THE VIKINGS: Portland State enters the week with an 0-4 record following Lake Forest, Calif. a 69-53 loss to crosstown rival Portland on Tuesday at the Stott Center, despite a Thurs. F18 at Hawai’i* 7 p.m. HT double-double from sophomore forward Cici West, who finished the game with Sat. F20 UC RIVERSIDE* 7 p.m. 16 points and 18 rebounds... Under the direction of first-year head coach Lynn Sat. F27 CSUN* (DH) 3 p.m. Williams, the Vikings have also fallen to Cal State Fullerton (84-69), Long Beach State (89-71), and NAIA Warner Pacific (76-64), to start the year... Freshman guard Thurs. M3 at Long Beach State* 7 p.m. Michaela Kay leads a pair of double-digit scorers for Portland State, averaging 13.0 PPG RPG FG% Sat. M5 at UC Irvine* 2 p.m. points and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting .389 from the field... West leads 11.8 8.5 .483 the team on the glass at 9.5 rpg to go with her 7.0 ppg following her first career double-double against the Pilots. BIG WEST TOURNAMENT (Irvine & Anaheim, Calif.) MORGAN Tues. M8 First Round (Irvine, Calif.) TBA BERTSCH SERIES NOTES: A constant rival during UC Davis’ Division II days, Portland State Wed. M9 Quarterfinals (Irvine, Calif.) TBA 6-4 >> R-Fr. >> Forward leads the all-time series with the Aggies by a 9-3 count... Friday’s game will mark Santa Rosa, Calif. Fri. M11 Semifinals (Anaheim, Calif.) TBA only the third meeting between the two programs during UC Davis’ Division I Era... The Aggies won the first meeting, 80-62, on Nov. 27, 2007, at The Pavilion Sat. M12 Championship (Anaheim, Calif.) TBA with the Vikings responding with a 68-57 win on Dec. 19, 2011, in a neutral site game at the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Shootout in Honolulu... Dating back to the NCAA TOURNAMENT 1991-92 season, UC Davis is just 1-4 in games played on Portland State’s home floor PPG RPG FG% -- including a pair of NCAA Division II West Regional match-ups in 1992 and 1995 Fri.-Mon. M18-21 NCAA 1st & 2nd Rounds TBA 8.3 5.3 .481 -- posting its only victory in a 67-64 win on Nov. 25, 2005... The Aggies lost in their Fri.-Mon. M25-28 NCAA Regionals TBA last trip to PSU, 73-63, on Nov. 24, 2006. Sun. A3 NCAA Final Four TBA PELE CONFERENCE CALL: Portland State will be the first Big Sky Conference opponent Tues. A5 NCAA Championship TBA GIANOTTI of the year for UC Davis, which also faces league member Sacramento State at 5-11 >> So. >> Forward * denotes Big West Conference game home on Dec. 13... The Aggies are a combined 33-37 (.471) against the current Myrtle Creek, Ore. All game times local to site... Dates and times subject to change Big Sky alignment, but have faced only four of the league’s 12 teams: Northern Home games in BOLD Arizona (1-0), Portland State (3-9), Sacramento State (26-28), and Southern Utah (DH) denotes doubleheader with UC Davis men’s team (3-0)... UC Davis has won its last two against Big Sky schools, posting wins over Sacramento State and Southern Utah last season to put an end to a three-game facebook.com/UCDavisAggies skid against the conference. facebook.com/UCDavisWomensBasketball PPG RPG FG% @UCDavisAggies @UCDavisInGame 11.0 6.0 .438 The Aggies should have a significantly larger rooting section @UCDavisWBB “WELCOME HOME!”: when they make their trip to Oregon this weekend, as two of UC Davis’ players will instagram.com/UCDavisAggies ED. NOTE: Starters based on lineup of previous game have a homecoming of sorts. Sophomore Pele Gianotti hails from Myrtle Creek, instagram.com/UCDavisWBB UCDAVISAGGIES.COM BIG WEST CONFERENCE UC DAVIS BASKETBALL UC Davis Women’s Basketball Release #6... at Portland State 2015-16 UC DAVIS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER MILESTONE AHEAD... NUMERICAL ROSTER ## NAME POS HT YR EXP HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 1 Heidi JOHNSON F 6-2 Sr. 3V Clovis, Calif. (Buchanan HS ‘12) 2 Kourtney EATON G 5-9 Fr. HS Longview, Wash. (Mark Morris HS ‘15) 9 5 9 4 Rachel NAGEL G 5-10 So. 1V La Palma, Calif. (Whitney HS ‘14) UC Davis senior center Alyson Doherty is on 10 Pele GIANOTTI F 5-11 So. 1V Myrtle Creek, Ore. (Roseburg HS ‘14) track to become the 17th player in the history of 11 Lauren BEYER F 6-1 R-Sr. 3V Elk Grove, Calif. (Bradshaw Christian School ‘11) the program to reach 1,000 career points during 13 Dani NAFEKH G/F 5-11 So. 1V Oakville, Ontario, Canada (Oakville Trafalgar HS ‘14) the 2015-16 campaign. The senior from Lake 14 Karley EATON G/F 5-9 Fr. HS Longview, Wash. (Mark Morris HS ‘15) Forest, Calif., enters the season with 912 points 20 Celia MARFONE F 6-0 Sr. 3V Laguna Hills, Calif. (Laguna Hills HS ‘12) to her name over her three previous years and would be the second 21 Taylor McGUIRE G 5-10 Jr. 2V Ventura, Calif. (Buena HS ‘13) Aggie in the last three seasons to reach the milestone, joining her former 22 Morgan BERTSCH F/C 6-4 R-Fr. RS Santa Rosa, Calif. (Santa Rosa HS ‘14) teammate Sydnee Fipps, who did so during the 2013-14 campaign as 23 Molly GREUBEL G 5-9 R-Jr.