UPCOMING GAMES
The Fort Lewis College women's basketball team will be on the road this Friday and Saturday at New Mexico Highlands University and No. 3 Colorado State University - Pueblo. Tip-off is schedule for 5 p.m. each night.
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The Skyhawks enter the weekend with the fifth best league record. FLC is 10-5 in RMAC games and 15-5 overall.
Fort Lewis is coming off a 10-point road victory against Colorado Christian University on Saturday afternoon 86-76. FLC has won three of their last four games.
Briana Clah and
Kayla Herrera led the Skyhawks in scoring while
Alyssa Yocky recorded her sixth double-double of the season in the process.
Clah led the way for Fort Lewis by pouring in 23 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the court. She also led the Skyhawks in assists with three and three-point field goals by sinking 5-of-7 from beyond the arc.
Herrera recorded 11 of her 17 points in the second half of action on 7-of-12 shooting. She also posted eight rebounds during the game.
Yocky pulled down 14 total rebounds to go along with her 16-point performance.
Briana Clah ranks fifth in the RMAC for scoring. Clah is averaging 15.1 points per game while shooting a free throw percentage of 86.3 (88-102), which is second best in the league. She has also dished out 73 assists in 20 games to rank fifth in the RMAC for total assists (73 per game).
Ande Lampert has rejected 29 shots in 20 games which is the second most blocked shots in the RMAC behind CSU-Pueblo's Molly Roher.
Alyssa Yocky has grabbed the second most rebounds in the league. She is averaging 9.2 rebounds per game.
Fort Lewis owns the second best field goal percentage defense in the RMAC holding teams to a 33.9 field goal percentage per game this season. The Skyhawks also holds the best defensive rebounding average with 31.3 per game in the conference and three-point field goal percentage defense, holding their opponents to 25.8 percent shooting from beyond the arc.
SCOUTING THE Cowgirls
New Mexico Highlands University is 14th in the league standings with a 1-14 record. The Cougars are 2-17 overall and 1-9 at home.
Friday's meeting will be the second meeting between the two after Fort Lewis College pulled out a 79-48 home victory against the Cowgirls earlier in the year.
Kaylani Maiava leads NMHU in scoring (13.2 points per game) and rebounds (5.9 rebounds per game).
The Cowgirls average 54.5 points per game this season, which is the third fewest in the league this season.
SCOUTING THE Thunderwolves
Colorado State University-Pueblo is undefeated in both RMAC play (15-0) and season play (21-0) and are currently ranked No. in Division II. The ThunderWolves are 11-0 at home this season.
The ThunderWolves are 11-0 at home this season.
Saturday's meeting will be the second meeting of the year between the two programs. CSU-Pueblo pulled out the road victory in the RMAC season opener 79-56 against the Skyhawks.
The ThunderWolves boast two of the top three scorers in the league. Tuilesiu Anderson ranks second in the league for scoring (16.8 points per game) and Molly Rohrer ranks third in the league (15.9 points per game). Rohrer also leads the league in blocked shots by rejecting 2.0 per game. Katie Cunningham leads the RMAC in rebounds (9.7 per game) and steals (1.9 per game).
CSU-Pueblo leads the RMAC in scoring offense (74.2 points per game), scoring margin (plus 14.2 points per game), field goal percentage (43.5 percent), field goal percentage defense (33.7 percent), and blocked shots (4.6 per game).
UP NEXT
Fort Lewis College will close out their regular season by playing four of their last five at home beginning next weekend with Western State Colorado University on Feb. 10 and Colorado Mesa University on Feb. 11.