Lions Travel to Penn State Altoona Saturday

Lions Travel to Penn State Altoona Saturday

ERIE, Pa. - The Penn State Behrend women's basketball team will travel to Altoona, PA to take on Penn State Altoona in an Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) matchup on Saturday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m.

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Behrend News & Notes
* The Lions are 9-5 overall with a 6-3 mark in the conference
* Behrend is currently tied for fourth in the AMCC with D'Youville
* The Lions most recently fell to Hilbert on Wednesday, 63-60
* Behrend led the game through halftime but went down 10 in the fourth quarter
* The Lions came back to be down three but were unable to overcome the deficit
* Ashley Seamon (West Allegheny, PA/West Allegheny) led Behrend with a double-double, scoring 14 and pulling in 10 rebounds
* Kara Haslett (Baden, PA/Ambridge) chipped in 14 points, all in the first half
* Alanna Dibble (Lakewood, NY/Southwestern) leads the AMCC with a 56.3 field-goal percentage
* Dibble is 68-for-122 on the season and ranked 19th overall in NCAA Division III in this category

Penn State Altoona News & Notes
* The Altoona Lions are 8-4 overall and 6-2 in the AMCC
* The Lions two conference losses were to La Roche and Hilbert
* Altoona is coming off a 81-64 win over Pitt-Bradford on Saturday
* Alexis Cannistraci recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 21 points and 11 rebounds
* Cannistraci leads the AMCC with 17.0 points per game and is ranked fourth with 8.9 rebounds per game

Series History
* Behrend and Altoona have a series history dating back to 1999
* The Behrend Lions hold a 30-13 overall lead
* Behrend went 2-1 against the Altoona Lions last season
* The teams split during the regular season, each winning their own home game
* The Behrend Lions took down Altoona 67-60 in the AMCC first round on February 21, 2019