The Chestnut Hill College Women's Basketball team will travel to Lakewood, New Jersey as they face Central Atlantic collegiate Conference South division rival Georgian Court university in a rare weekday afternoon contest on Tuesday
 

The Basics
		Chestnut Hill Info (10-3, 4-0 CACC)
Date:	January 11, 2022
		Roster
Opponent:	Georgian Court University	Schedule
		Statistics
Location:	Lakewood, N.J.
		Georgian Court Info (5-8, 2-4 CACC)
Time:	12:00 p.m.
		Roster
Arena:	GCU Wellness Center	Schedule
		Statistics
Video:	https://caccnetwork.com/georgiancourt/
Livestats:	https://www.caccathletics.org/sports/wbkb/2021-22/boxscores/20220111_f2wq.xml

 

The Series
Tuesday's game with Georgian Court University will be the 25^th meeting between the two teams.  The series dates back to the 2007-08 season when Chestnut Hill college first joined the CACC.  The Griffins hold a 15-9 advantage and have won 11 of the last 14 meetings dating back to 2012.  Georgian Court however has won three of the last four contests including a 75-68 win the last time these two teams met in January 2020 at Sorgenti Arena.  Chestnut Hill has won the last six times they played at the GCU Wellness Center  going back to 2014 and hold a 7-5 record against the Lions on their own home court.

Conference Action
Chestnut Hill is off to its best start in conference play since becoming a member of the CACC in 2007-08, opening with four conference wins.  The Griffins have held conference opponents to just 53.2 points per game in the four wins.  Georgian Court is 2-4 in league play with wins in their last two contests coming against Jefferson and Bloomfield.   
 
About the Griffins
The Griffins enter Tuesday's game with a 10-3 record following a 61-57 overtime win over Felician University at Sorgenti Arena on Saturday.  Chestnut Hill's 10-3 start  to the season and 4-0 conference record is their best record to start a season since becoming an NCAA Division II member.   It is also their best ever 13-game start since joining the NCAA in 1996. The Griffins had started the 2002-03 season with a 9-3 record as an NCAA Division III institution and a member of the Atlantic Women's Collegiate Conference. (AWCC)

Three players are averaging double figures this season led by Leah Miller's 16.4 points per game. Miller has played in the Griffins first eight games but missed the last five contests due to an injury.  Miller also leads the team with 10.1 rebounds per game and is shooting 77.1% from the free throw line and 52.0% from the field.  She ranks among the top five in the CACC in scoring average, rebounds/game, field goal percentage and field goals/game.  Miller is second on the team lead with four double-doubles.

Emily Chmiel  leads the team with six double-doubles (2^nd in the CACC); is averaging 13.4 points per game and ranks among the conference top five in five different statistical categories, including blocks (2^nd, 20);  total rebounds (3^rd, 121) and rebounds/game (5^th,9.3).  Chmiel is second on the team in rebounds per game and leads the team in blocks and total rebounds while appearing in all 13 games for the Griffins.

Point guard Cassie Sebold is averaging 12.7 points per game and leads the team with 65 assists (2^nd in CACC, 9^th in NCAA) and 17 steals.  Sebold has second on the team with 13 three-point field goals made on the season, while appearing in 11 of 13 games this season.

Lauren Crim  made five 3 point field goals in the Griffin's Wednesday night win over Wilmington to take over the team lead with 18.  She is averaging 5.8 points per game and has the best assist/turnover ratio in the conference at 2.3.  Morgan Orloski is third in the CACC with an assist/turnover ratio of 2.0. Orloski is also shooting 34.8% from beyond the three-point arc, and 43.2% from the field overall. Bri Hewlett has started the last five games in place of the injured Miller and is shooting 33% from beyond the arc while averaging 4.8 points per game

Last Time Out
Saturday's Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference women's basketball game between Chestnut Hill College and Felician University turned into an overtime thriller as the Griffins rallied from six points down with less than three minutes to go in the overtime to defeat the Golden Falcons  61-57 Saturday afternoon at Sorgenti Arena.

The win was the Griffins fourth in a row as they improved to 10-3 on the season and earned a share of first place in the CACC south Division with a 4-0 record.  The Golden Falcons fell to 4-8 and 2-1 in league play.

The Griffins, still playing shorthanded due to COVID health and safety protocols, dressed just eight players and received scoring contributions from all eight.  Lindsey Lane (Havertown, Pa.) led the Griffins 15 points (6-8 FG) while Emily Chmiel (Doylestown, Pa.) recorded her sixth double-double of the season (and third straight) with 13 points and 13 rebounds.  The freshman forward also had a career-highs with five blocks and three steals.  Kaitlyn Carter (Philadelphia, Pa.) contributed 11 points and eight rebounds while playing 44+ minutes.  Abbey Spratt (Doylestown, Pa.), Lauren Crim (Warrington, Pa.) and Carter led the team with three assists apiece.
 
Chmiel Named CACC Rookie and Defensive Player of the Week
Chestnut Hill College Women's Basketball player Emily Chmiel was named the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Rookie and Defensive Player of the Week for her performance in the Griffins' games against Wilmington University and  Felician University.
 
This week's honors mark the third time this season that Chmiel has earned conference Rookie of the Week honors and second time she was named Defensive Player of the Week.
 
Chmiel recorded double-doubles in both games last week, with 19 points and 10 rebounds against Wilmington and 13 points and 13 rebounds against Felician, giving her six double-doubles on the season.  In addition, Chmiel recorded a career high five blocks and three steals against the Golden Falcons on Saturday.  The five blocks are the most by a CACC women's basketball player this season.
 
For the week, Chmiel averaged 16 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.0 blocks, 1.5 steals and 1.0 asssits per game while shooting 44.8% (13-29) from the field.
 
 Griffins Ranked in D2SIDA Poll
The Chestnut Hill College Women's basketball team is ranked tenth in the latest D2SIDA East Region Basketball poll that was released Monday afternoon.  The team was receiving votes in the last two weeks and moved up following a 2-0 week.  The complete poll is below:
 

EAST
1	University of the Sciences (5)	9-1	58	1
2	Southern New Hampshire	9-2	54	2
3	Bentley (1)	7-3	48	4
4	Pace	12-2	41	3
5	Le Moyne	7-2	35	6
6	Jefferson	10-3	32	5
7	Daemen	5-3	23	7
8	Saint Anselm	7-5	16	8
9	Post	9-2	10	10
10	Chestnut Hill	10-3	9	NR
RV:	Assumption 2, Southern Connecticut State 2

Conference Honors
The Griffins have had at least one player earn conference honors in six of the first eight weeks of the 2021-22 season. The complete list is below.

 

Week Ending 01/09	Emily Chmiel		CACC Rookie of the Week
			CACC Defensive Player of the Week
Week Ending 12/20	Lauren Crim		CACC Player of the Week
	Emily Chmiel		CACC Rookie of the Week
Week Ending 12/5	Emily Chmiel		CACC Defensive Player of the Week
	Leah Miller		CACC Weekly Honor Roll
Week Ending 11/28	Leah Miller		CACC Weekly Honor Roll
Week Ending 11/21	Emily Chmiel		CACC Rookie of The Week
	Cassie Sebold		CACC Weekly Honor Roll
Week Ending 11/14	Leah Miller		CACC Weekly Honor Roll

 
Moving up the Ranks
In the Griffins' game against New Haven on December 19, Cassie Sebold moved into 7^th place on the Griffins all-time scoring list, passing Joanne Sauer who scored 1082 points from 1978-82. Sebold needs 16 points to pass Olivia Gorczynski '15 for sixth place on the all-time list.  Lauren Crim, with her five three-point field goals against Wilmington, moved into fourth place on the Griffin's all-time three-point field goals made list with 162 for her career, passing Beth Ann Castone who sank 158 over her four-year career. (Ruairi Sullivan, a 2014 Griffins Hall of Fame inductee who played for Chestnut Hill from 1996-2000 is the Griffin's all-time leader with 239.)

Sebold Joins the 1,000 Point Club
Cassie Sebold made five free throws in the final 1:41 of the game and scored the 1,000^th point of her college career as the Chestnut Hill College Women's Basketball Team overcame a four point fourth quarter deficit and rallied to defeat West Chester University  80-68 on November 21, 2021

Sebold, a senior guard and the team's leading scorer for the 2019-20 season, entered the game needing 15 points to become the tenth player in program history to reach the coveted 1,000-point plateau.  She was still eight points shy of the mark as the teams entered the fourth quarter and six points shy as the game entered the final three minutes.  Sebold made a driving layup at the 2:59 mark tying the game.  The senior guard then went to free throw line three times in the final 1:41. Sebold's first free throw in her final trip to the charity stripe (with 30 seconds left) was the milestone reaching point.  She also made the second which provided the final 12-point margin of victory and gave her 16 points on the afternoon.

An Impressive Debut
Freshman Emily Chmiel came off the bench on Saturday, November 13 to score 10 points and grab a team high nine rebounds in the Griffins 66-51 loss to Molloy.  The 6-2 freshman also had three blocks and two steals against the Lions.  Chmiel was the Griffins top rebounder the next day grabbing seven boards in CHC's win over Queens while scoring 13 points.   

 

Griffins				Lions
63.9		Pts/game		66.2
56.5		Pts allowed/game		67.5
37.3		FG%		39.1
36.5		FG% Defense		37.9
26.9		3PT FG %		27.3
77.8		FT %		66.3
43.7		Rebounds/game		43.4
34.7		Rebounds allowed/gm.		43.0
9.0		Rebound margin		0.4
14.8		Assists/game		15.0

 
Scouting the Lions
Georgian Court University is 5-8 overall and 2-4 in CACC games.  The Lions have won their last two conference games, defeating Bloomfield 74-56 and regionally ranked Jefferson 64-61.
The Lions are the league's best shot blocking team, averaging 5.8 per game with Hanna Thrainsdottir leading the league averaging 1.7 per game.  GCU is also one of the better shooting teams in the league, making 39.1% of their shots from the field.
Four players are averaging double figures for the Lions, led by Anyssa Fields and her league-leading 20.1 points per game.  Fields  is an outside shooting threat with 26 three point baskets made. She is also the team's second leading rebounder, averaging 8.5 per game.
Freshman Erika Aspajo is averaging 14.1 points per game but has not seen any action since December 20.  She leads the team with 39 assists and 25 steals.
Tian Addison and Leighanna Lister round out the Lions' double figure scorers.  Addison is averaging 11.8 points per game and is GCU's best free throw shooter at 79.2%.  Lister is shooting a blistering 57.1% from the field  while averaging 10.7 points per game.  She is also the team's leading rebounder, averaging 9.2 per game and is second on the team with 19 blocks.
 
Last Time Out for Georgian Court
Lakewood, N.J. - Things are hitting a slow simmer for the Georgian Court University women's basketball squad as the Lions landed its second-straight conference win Saturday afternoon with a 74-56 home triumph over Bloomfield College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference inter-divisional action.

GCU, now with four-straight wins over the Bears, improves to 5-8 (2-4 CACC) while Bloomfield (2-9, 0-3 CACC) still seeks its first conference "W".

Coming out of the intermission maintaining a 32-26 surplus, Georgian Court outpaced BC in the third quarter, 20-11, to take a commanding 15-point cushion (52-37) heading into the fourth-and-final frame. The Lions' advantage increased to a game-high 26 (72-46) after an A'nya Harper three-point play with 3:22 left in regulation.

Anyssa Fields, who is averaging 20.1 points-per-game in 10 games played, authored her fifth effort with 20+ points, draining a team-best 22 on the day. The sophomore connected on four of the Lions' five three-pointers, while also snaring 12 rebounds and dishing four helpers, for her second double-double of the season.

Tian Addison, playing all 40 minutes for the royal-and-gold, finished with 16 points and three assists. Leighanna Lister contributed 15 points, seven boards, and a game-high five thefts in 36 total minutes.