DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (Jan. 22, 2024) – The Mercy University women's basketball team plays at ECC foe College of Staten Island on Wednesday, January 24th at 5:30 p.m.

Who, When and Where

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 24th 5:30 p.m.

Records: Mercy (10-7, 3-3 ECC), Staten Island (5-11, 2-4 ECC)

Location: Staten Island, N.Y.

Last Meeting vs. Staten Island

Mercy earned a 60-51 win over Staten Island on December 6, 2023.

Scouting the Mavericks

Mercy is coming off a 55-51 loss to Daemen on Sunday. The Mavericks were led by junior Jaclyn Stanavich who had a team-high 14 points and by sophomore Angelina Barrera who had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Mercy enters the 2023-24 season picked fourth in the ECC Preseason Poll after going 17-10 last season. The Mavericks recorded their most overall wins in a season since 1989 and had their most ECC wins since 1997. Mercy's third-place finish in the ECC standings was the highest in program history. The Mavericks also had their highest winning percentage since 1986 and hosted their first-ever ECC Championship Game. Mercy looks to qualify for the ECC Championship for the fourth straight year and win their first-ever ECC Championship. Graduate student Katie Wall returns for sixth-year Head Coach Scott Lagas after being named First Team All-ECC and First Team All-Met last season. The guard was named ECC Player of the Week once last season after averaging a team-high 14.0 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. Wall had a team-high 54 steals and ranked third in the ECC in points per game last season. Also, returning is sophomore Angelina Barrera who was named to the ECC Honor Roll twice last season after averaging 7.0 points, 4.8 rebounds and had a team-high 21 blocks in 26 games. Junior Jaclyn Stanavich also returns after averaging 6.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per game in 24 games a year ago. Senior Maria Tedesco returns after recording 4.2 points and a team-high 5.3 rebounds per game. Also returning for Lagas are junior Kayla Halvorsen and sophomores Megan Marcotte and Kyla Nembach. Lagas will also look to freshmen Paige Fourtin, Mary McClintock, Layla Greene, Victoria Pfeffer, Molly Boek, Amani Abuhatab and Grace Lesko to help get the Mavericks back to the ECC Championship. The Mavericks have been led so far by Wall who was named ECC Player of the Week on November 13th and December 11th and named to the ECC Honor Roll on December 4th and January 8th and is averaging a team-high 16.2 points per game with 5.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.5 steals per game. The graduate student is third in the ECC in points per game and set a new school record with her 193rd career three-pointer against St. Thomas Aquinas on December 2nd. She scored a career-high 40 points in the Mavericks season-opening win over Saint Anselm on November 11th. Stanavich is second on the team with 14.6 points per game and is averaging 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game. The junior scored a career-high 25 points against Columbus State on December 16th. Sophomore Angelina Barrera was named ECC Defensive Player of the Week on January 8th and is third on the team with 10.8 points per game and leads the team with 8.4 rebounds per game. The sophomore ranks third in the ECC in rebounds per game. Barrera scored a career-high 23 points with 13 rebounds in the win over Caldwell on January 3rd. Tedesco is recording 5.6 rebounds per game and 1.9 assists per game to go along with 5.5 points per game. Halvorsen is netting 4.6 points per game. Barrera and Stanavich were named to the ECC Honor Roll on November 20th and Stanavich has been named to the Honor Roll five times with the most recent time coming on January 16th. Mercy is 4-1 all-time against the Dolphins and have won the last two meetings.

Scouting the Dolphins

Staten Island is coming off a 73-69 loss to District of Columbia on Saturday for their ninth straight loss. The Dolphins were picked seventh in the ECC Preseason Poll after going 11-19 last season. Staten Island is led by Kyra Rose and Jenalyse Alarcon who both average a team-high of 10.3 points per game. Alarcon averages a team-high 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. Dana Phelan nets 10.1 points per game and Ashley Lambert pours in 10.0 points per game. Kaia Johnson dishes out a team-high-tying 2.3 assists per game and records a team-high 1.6 steals per game.

Next Game

Mercy hosts District of Columbia on Saturday, January 27th at 12 p.m.