DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (Dec. 4, 2022) – The Mercy College women's basketball team hosts Chestnut Hill College on Tuesday, December 6th at 5 p.m.
Who, When and Where
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 6th 5 p.m.
Records: Mercy (4-4), Chestnut Hill (3-4)
Location: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Last Meeting vs. Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill earned a 58-39 win over Mercy on December 11, 2021.
Scouting the Mavericks
Mercy is coming off an 84-75 win over UDC on Saturday. The Mavericks were led by graduate student Taysha Bender who had a career-high 30 points and by senior Kellie Nudd who had a season-high 17 points. The Mavericks are off to their best start since 2019. Mercy is 1-6 all-time against Chestnut Hill with the lone win coming in 2015. Wall leads the Mavericks with 12.9 points per game. Wall also averages 2.9 assists per game and a team-high 2.1 steals per game. The senior is currently 14 points shy of 1,000 for her career. Bender is second on the team with 11.3 points per game and averages 4.8 rebounds per game. The graduate student is 19 points shy of 1,000 for her career. Sophomore Kayla Halvorsen is fifth on the team with 6.4 points per game on a team-high 48.7 percent shooting and senior Asha Talib averages 6.6 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. Sophomore Jaclyn Stanavich is posting a career-high 5.0 points per game. Junior Maria Tedesco averages a team-high 6.3 rebounds per game and freshman Angelina Barrera is netting 5.5 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. Graduate student Sara Hopkins dishes out a team-high 4.0 assists per game and Nudd posts 8.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. Mercy enters the 2022-23 season picked fourth in the ECC Preseason Poll after going 11-16 last season. The Mavericks recorded their most overall wins and most ECC wins since 1997 and earned the program's first ECC Championship berth without every team making it since 2009. Mercy looks to qualify for the ECC Championship for the third straight year and win their first-ever ECC Championship. The fourth-place ranking is the highest in five seasons under Head Coach Scott Lagas. Wall was named the ECC Preseason Player of the Year after being named First Team All-ECC and First Team All-Met last season. She was named ECC Player of the Week twice after averaging a team-high 16.0 points, 4.4 assists and 2.4 steals per game. The guard ranked fourth in the ECC in points per game and second in assists and steals per game. Also returning for the Mavericks is Bender who was named Second Team All-ECC and Second Team All-Met last season after averaging 14.3 points per game. Senior Kellie Nudd also returns after averaging 10.4 points per game. Tedesco comes back after leading the Mavericks with 6.0 rebounds per game to go along with 6.0 points per game. Talib averaged 6.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game last season and also returns. Lagas will look to Hopkins who returns after missing last season due to injury. Hopkins averaged 6.8 points and a team-high 5.6 assists per game for Concordia in 2021. During her three-year career at Concordia, she averaged 8.2 points and 3.8 assists per game. Lagas will also look to freshmen Megan Marcotte, Barrera, Nya Carroll and Kyla Nembach to help get the Mavericks back to the ECC Championship.
Scouting the Griffins
Chestnut Hill is coming off a 55-46 loss to Jefferson on Wednesday. The Griffins were picked second in the CACC South Division Preseason Poll after going 24-7 last season, earning the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament berth. Chestnut Hill was ranked No. 25 nationally in the D2SIDA Preseason Top 25 Poll and were receiving votes in last week's D2SIDA East Region Poll. The Griffins are led by Emily Chmiel who averages a team-high 14.0 points per game on 59.2 percent shooting to go along with a team-high 5.4 rebounds per game. Lauren Crim is second on the team with 6.2 points per game and Bri Hewlett is third with 6.0 points per game. Abbey Spratt dishes out a team-high 3.6 assists per game and Kaitlyn Carter averages a team-high 1.4 steals per game.
Next Game
Mercy hosts D'Youville on Friday, December 9th at 5 p.m.
