GLENVILLE, W.Va. - Glenville State Women's Basketball heads into the second week of the regular season with a road matchup at Chowan tomorrow (Nov. 15) and will complete the week on Saturday (Nov. 18) as they host 16th ranked West Virginia State.
GAME INFORMATION
Wednesday, November 15 | 12 p.m. | Bob Burke Court
#23 Glenville State at Chowan
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Saturday, November 18 | 2 p.m. | Waco Center
#23 Glenville State vs #16 West Virginia State
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THE OPPONENTS
CHOWAN
The Hawks went (18-11) last season, falling to Belmont Abbey in the Conference Carolinas semifinals. Chowan has yet to play a regular season game this year. In their meeting with the Lady Pioneers last year, CU fell 102-76 in Glenville.
Lenise Stallings enters her fourth season as Head Coach of the Hawks. Following last year's success, Stallings secured her second-consecutive 18-win season. She spent a season at Wiley College (NAIA) in Texas as HC of the Wildcats, leading them to their first winning season in three years. Before Wiley, Stallings was an assistant at Tennessee State for two seasons. She started her career at Mississippi Valley State.
Chowan returns their third-leading scorer from 2022-23 in Imani Hickman at 7.7 PPG. Both of the Hawks leading scorers from last season graduated, leaving Hickman as the highest scorer returning. Hickman's 6.7 RPG is the most of any returner as well.
WEST VIRGINIA STATE
The 16th ranked Yellow Jackets enter (1-1) following a split at the 'Conference Challenge' on the campus of California (Pa.), falling to the Vulcans but defeating Kutztown on Saturday. WVSU will face off with Carlow in Institute prior to meeting with the Lady Pioneers on Saturday.
Charles Marshall is in his eighth season as Head Coach of the Yellow Jackets. Prior to WVSU, Marshall spent three years as the HC at Glenville State. In his first year at GSU, Marshall led the Lady Pioneers to a 29-4 overall record, MEC regular season and tournament championships, and a #1 seed in the Atlantic Region tournament. Marshall was also an assistant at GSU for two seasons before being elevated.
Two Yellow Jackets (Shelby Harmeyer and Hannah Shriver) are averaging 13 PPG each while Anysa Jordan has added 10 PPG. 13 different WVSU players have found the scoring column so far this year. Anysa Jordan leads the rebounding category with 7.5 and Shriver averages the most assists at 4.5 per game.
THE LADY PIONEERS
GLENVILLE STATE
The Lady Pioneers come in (2-0) after defeating Gannon 74-70 on Friday and Clarion 117-74 on Saturday. In the victory over Clarion, GSU forced 31 turnovers and made 13 threes.
Lauren Calhoun leads Glenville State in scoring (14.5 PPG) and rebounding (9.0 RPG) through the first two games. Hya Haywood (14.0 PPG), Dream Cherry (12.5 PPG), Chalon Miles (11.5 PPG) and Kamiyah Lyons (10.0 PPG) are all averaging double-figures as well. As a team, GSU is forcing 31 turnovers per game while averaging 18.5 steals per game.
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