Findlay Heads to Painesville to Battle the Storm
Sophomore Sydney Kin is the reigning conference Player of the Week and has been playing some of the best basketball of her career in the past few weeks. That effort has led the Oilers to a 10-5 mark in the G-MAC with just three games remaining. The first of those three is a game in Painesville this Saturday, Feb. 22 when Findlay will take on the Lake Erie Storm. That game will tip off at 1:00 pm.
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Series Information
Lake Erie: The Oilers and Storm have played 26 times since their series began back in the 1988-89 season, a game Findlay won 106-54. Lake Erie has not won in the series since a 74-69 victory near the end of the 2016-17 season.
Earlier this year, Findlay welcomed the Storm into Croy and, despite trailing by five through the first quarter, the Oilers picked up an 82-74 win.
Sydney Kin led the team with 21 points while Amber Schweiger scored 19, which at the time was a career-high. Lauren Ruth scored 14 points while making three shots from deep.
Findlay (14-11, 10-5 G-MAC)
Despite two wins this past weekend and three consecutive wins overall, the Oilers dropped a spot in the point standings and now are in fifth which would mean a road trip in the G-MAC Quarterfinals if the tournament started today.
Sophomore Sydney Kin, the reigning G-MAC Player of the Week, has been outstanding since the middle of December when she dropped 33 points against Urbana. Since then, Kin is averaging more than 19 points per game and has scored at least 20 points in four of her previous five games. Kin leads the team with 8.2 rebounds per game.
Fellow sophomore Amber Schweiger is scoring in double-figures on the season, as well, at ten points per game. She also leads the team with 4.1 assists per contest and is tied for the team lead with two steals per game.
Rounding out the Oilers' top four scorers are another pair of sophomores in Bridget Landin and Paige Bellman who are scoring 9.8 and 9.0 ppg, respectively. Landin is collecting 7.6 rebounds per game while Bellman gets 7.0.
Lake Erie (9-16, 6-9 G-MAC)
The Storm will play Malone on Thursday before hosting the Oilers on Saturday, but currently, Lake Erie is at 6-9 in the G-MAC and if the postseason started today, their eighth place position would have them heading to the top seed for their quarterfinal matchup.
Lake Erie has lost five of their previous six games, however all of those losses have been by ten points or less including an eight-point loss at home to now #18 Kentucky Wesleyan.
Senior Josie Chaddock has been the story all year for the Storm, leading the charge at 18.1 points per game. Chaddock scored 27 points on January 2 when Lake Erie came to Croy. She also grabs 4.5 rebounds per game and leads the team with 3.6 assists per game.
Junior Breanna Bauer is the other big threat offensively at 16.1 points per game. She shoots almost 55-percent from the floor. Bauer leads the Storm at 6.5 rebounds per game.