Oilers Wrap Up Regular Season vs. KWC and TNU
The Games
The final two games of the regular season will be played this weekend in Croy Gymnasium as the Oilers look to earn a home G-MAC quarterfinal game next week. Findlay welcomes league leader Kentucky Wesleyan on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 5:30 and then wraps up their regular season with Trevecca Nazarene on March 2 at 1:00 pm.
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Series Information
Kentucky Wesleyan
The Oilers and Panthers have played four times in their history with Findlay winning three of those games. Their first meeting was also in the 2015-16 season, a game the Oilers won 80-54. Kentucky Wesleyan beat Findlay for the first time earlier this season when they earned a 72-54 victory in Owensboro, Ky. back on Jan. 26.
In that game, senior Anna Hintz was the only Findlay player to reach double-figures in scoring as she picked up 11 points and led the team with seven rebounds. Sydney Kin also grabbed seven boards while chipping in six points.
Lily Grimes, Jenna Martin, Keelie Lamp, and Kaylee Clifford all scored 10+ for the Panthers in that game while Kelsey Ivers added seven points and a game-high nine rebounds.
Trevecca Nazarene
Findlay and TNU have matched up four times with the Oilers winning three of those games. Their first-ever meeting was in the 2015-16 season in the season opener, a game the Oilers won 76-58. Earlier this season the Oilers defeated TNU by a score of 79-53 in Nashville, TN.
In that game, Hintz scored 22 points, grabbed ten rebounds, and dished out four assists while Jenna Stegmaier scored 15 points and Elissa Ellerbrock scored 11.
Findlay (18-7, 14-6 G-MAC)
The Oilers will be playing in the G-MAC tournament for the second consecutive year and are looking to at least host a quarterfinal matchup on Tuesday if they can get through the weekend in fourth place in the standings.
Senior Anna Hintz will be playing in her final regular season games in Croy this weekend and has proven to be one of the top players to ever come through Findlay. To date, she has scored 1,443 points which is third on the all-time scoring list, and is looking to become the first player in program history to record back-to-back seasons with 18+ points per game. She currently leads the G-MAC at 19.0 points per game and 8.7 rebounds per game and has 12 double-doubles this season.
Senior Elissa Ellerbrock is contributing 11.3 points per game and is also second on the squad at 5.2 rebounds per game while senior Allie Thobe scores 8.2 ppg and snags 4.7 rebounds. Thobe also leads the team with 3.0 assists per game and 2.4 steals per game. Her 2.4 steals are good for second in the league.
Kentucky Wesleyan (21-5, 17-3 G-MAC)
Picked sixth in the preseason poll, the Panthers are just a weekend away from finishing as G-MAC regular season championship. They have won 17 of their previous 19 games with the only two losses over that stretch coming on a trip to Canton where Malone and Walsh each bested the team from Owensboro. As a team that finished they year undefeated at home, the Panthers are hoping to play host for the G-MAC tournament.
KWC is the top scoring team in the league at 77.7 points per game which is 20th in the country. A bulk of their scoring comes from behind the arc where they make 9.8 triples per game, fourth in the country.
Jenna Martin is the biggest threat for the Panthers and is scoring 13.2 points per game while connecting on 41% of her shots from three-point range. Her 57 makes from deep are fifth in the league.
Keelie Lamb scores 11.9 ppg while Kaylee Clifford pours in 10.3 ppg. Clifford is the team's leader on the glass at 5.3 rebounds per game.
Trevecca Nazarene (12-14, 11-9 G-MAC)
After missing out on the tournament a season ago, the Trojans of Trevecca Nazarene, despite losing their leading scorer Callie Hacket 11 games into the season, have earned their way into the postseason and can be seeded as high as sixth depending on how their final weekend plays out.
Adi Hale has stepped up this season and is scoring 11.5 points per game while pulling in 4.1 rebounds. Brittin Boyer is contributing 11.4 points per game, as well, but is scoring 12.2 points per game in league games, the best average on the team. She is also the team's leader on the glass at 7.8 per game.
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