ERIE, Pa. - The Penn State Behrend women's basketball team hosts Carlow in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Game of the Week on Wednesday in the Junker Center at 7 p.m.
Coverage
Behrend News & Notes:
* The Lions are looking to make it eight straight wins on Wednesday after defeating Pitt-Greensburg 88-73 on Saturday
* The win streak is the longest among AMCC teams; La Roche is in second with six
* Earlier this season, Behrend posted a 20-point win over Carlow on the road
* Morgan Altavilla (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) averaged a double-double with 31.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in a pair of wins last week, while shooting 52.2 percent from the field
* She drained a career-high 34 points vs. Alfred State and then had her second collegiate double-double with 29 points and a career-high 12 rebounds against Pitt-Greensburg
* Against the Bobcats, the Lions had a season-low three turnovers
* Behrend is outscoring conference opponents, 741-552
* The Lions are 9-1 this season when leading at the half
* Rachel Majewski (Erie, PA/Villa Maria Academy) has led the Lions in scoring seven times this season, while Altavilla was the top performer on six occasions
Carlow News & Notes:
* The Celtics are third in the AMCC standings with a 9-6 record and 7-3 conference mark
* Carlow drained a season-high 22 three pointers and pulled down 64 rebounds to defeat Wells on Saturday, 98-34
* Olivia Chuvala drained eight treys to post a career and game-high 28 points off the bench against the Express
* The Celtics are coming off a 71-61 win over Kuyper (Michigan) on Monday night
* Emily Hillgartner led with 19 points vs. Kuyper, improving her team-lead points average to 15.5 per game
* Sydney Carr ranks second in the AMCC in three-point field-goal percentage, shooting 37.5 percent from behind the arc
Series History:
* This is the fifth meeting between the Lions and Celtics
* The win back in November was the first in program history for the Lions
* Carlow won three in a row during the 1983-84 season
