STEPHENVILLE, Texas (Women's Basketball) – With just six regular season games remaining, the Texas A&M University-Kingsville (10-10, 5-9 LSC) Javelinas look to move up the Lone Star Conference standings with a Thursday bout at Tarleton State University (10-10, 9-5 LSC) and Saturday afternoon contest at Texas A&M University-Commerce (16-6, 10-4 LSC).
The eighth-place Hogs and fifth-place TexAnns tip off at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in Wisdom Gym and the Javelinas will meet the fourth-place Lions Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. in the Fieldhouse.
Live stats, audio and video will be available on JavelinaAthletics.com. Javelina fans can tune into the Javelina Sports Network for both games, beginning 15 minutes prior to Thursday's and Saturday's tipoff.
THE GAMES
LAST TIME OUT
The defense forced 19 turnovers and held the Aggies to 25.8 percent shooting in a 69-54 victory and
Meesha Wade tied her season-high with 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting as the Javelinas split the regular season series versus Cameron University (8-12, 6-8 LSC).
SETTING THE SCENE
Texas A&M-Kingsville nears the home stretch of LSC play as they travel to take on Tarleton State Thursday at 5:30 p.m. inside Wisdom Gym. In the first meeting,
Tee Moore hit a long ball to give the Javs the lead with 8 seconds remaining, but Mackenzie Hailey stunned the SPEC crowd by nailing a three at the buzzer to force OT.
Kaylin Roher paced the Javs with 17.
On Saturday, the Javelinas face A&M-Commerce in the Field House at 2 p.m. A&M-Kingsville fell at home to TAMUC in the first matchup 78-71. Reigning LSC Offensive Player of the Week Artaejah Gay led the Lions with 20 points. Wade scored 17 and
Kaylee Kana posted a double-double with 14 points and 10 boards.
SERIES HISTORY
Texas A&M-Kingsville trails the all-time series versus Tarleton State 25-17 and versus A&M-Commerce 33-30. The Javs last win over TSU came on January 30th, 2010 at the SPEC, a 63-62 win (lost 13 straight). TAMUC won the last four meetings versus TAMUK after being swept in the '13-14 campaign.
NEXT UP
TAMUK hosts West Texas A&M Feb. 16 at 5:15 p.m. and UTPB at 4 on Feb. 18 in its final games at the SPEC this season. The Falcons game is also Play4Kay and Senior Day for the Javelinas.
ABOUT THE HOGS
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Kaylin Roher leads the Hogs with 11.8 points per game and 1.9 steals per contest (T-6th in the LSC)... the senior is making 2.5 three-pointers per game (tops in the LSC) and is shooting 39.7 percent from long distance.
- Kana's 8.0 rebounds per contest are tied for second-most in the LSC... registered her first career double-double (14 points, 10 boards) versus A&M-Commerce Jan. 5... second double-double (14 points, 11 boards) came versus Angelo State Jan. 24.
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Lily Hospers stepped into the starting lineup for the first time on January 5th following injuries to
Jaiton Walls and
Angelica Wilson... the New Zealand native piled up 31 rebounds and eight blocks in first three starts... Hospers pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds in the overtime loss to Tarleton State Jan. 7.
- Moore has reached double figures seven times... has scored season-high of 14 points on three different occasions (TWU 12/01/16, TSU 01/07/17, WNMU 01/21/17)... Moore has averaged no less than 7.6 points per contest at any point this season.
- Wade leads the team with 2.9 assists per game to go with her 9.4 points (2nd on the team)... Wade reached double figures in a season-high five straight games from December 19th through January 14th... shot 8-10 from the field en route to scoring 18 points against WNMU on January 21st... scored 18 points for second time this season in win over Cameron this past Saturday... has scored at least 10 points in 9 of her last 11 contests.
KEY RESERVES
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Shaq Debose is the highest scoring contributor off the bench, averaging 4.9 points per game... has scored at least 8 points in seven unique season contests.
- In 16 games played, Wilson scores almost five points per match... T-5th in the conference with 1.1 blocks per game... her five blocks against ENMU on January 19th was the highest total for a Javelina basketball player (Men's and Women's) in five years dating back to 2011.
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Madison Crawford shot 5-7 from the field, and scored a season-high 13 points in 18 minutes played as part of victory over A&M-International (12/10/2016).
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Joslyn Smith made all three of her field goal attempts to collect six points and a rebound in just four minutes against Cameron this past Saturday.
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