Oilers Face No. 9 Cedarville | Walsh | Malone This Week
The Oilers have won three consecutive contests and enter an important week as the season begins to wind down towards the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Championship Tournament. Findlay will take on conference leading and no. 9 Cedarville at home on Monday, Feb. 8 at 3:00 pm, Walsh at home on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 5:30, and will finish the week with a trip to Malone on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 1:00 pm.
Sights and Sounds
The game will be broadcast on the radio and can be heard by tuning into 88.3 WLFC if you are in the Findlay area, or you can listen by clicking the 'LISTEN' link below.
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Series Information - Cedarville: The Oilers are 28-9 all-time against Cedarville including the first-ever contest between the two schools that was played in the 1982-83 season, an 83-78 win for Findlay.
Earlier this season, Findlay went on the road to take on the Yellow Jackets and never led in that contest, losing by a score of 91-75. Amber Schweiger scored 12 to lead Findlay while Sydney Kin scored ten points, her lowest scoring game of the season.
Series Information - Walsh: Findlay is 17-11 all-time against the Walsh Cavaliers including their first matchup, a playoff game in the 1983-84 that the Oilers won 69-66.
Findlay went on the road on January 10 of this year and took down Walsh by a score of 92-84, one of three 90-point games for Findlay this season. Sydney Kin dropped 31 points in that game and also had 14 rebounds while Schweiger scored 19 and Bridget Landin scored 17 and had 12 rebounds. Paige Bellman also had a double-double, scoring 16 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
Series Information - Malone: Findlay is 27-3 against the Malone Pioneers including a 66-51 in their first ever matchup in the 1991-92 season.
Findlay welcomed the Pioneers to Croy on Jan. 8 of this season and won by a score of 80-72. Kin scored 25 and had eight boards while Landin scored 16 and had ten rebounds.
THE OILERS
Findlay has won three straight games and is currently 9-7 and trying to climb the standings to improve seeding for the G-MAC tournament. The Oilers have not defeated a top-25 team since they took down no. 22 Cedarville in December of 2017 by a score of 92-83. The last time Findlay took on a top-10 team was in the NCAA DII Tournament in 2017 when they played no. 3 Drury, a nail-biter of a game that the Oilers lost 76-72.
At 80.1 points per game, the Oilers are fourth in the conference in scoring and are led by Player of the Year candidate junior Sydney Kin. Kin is scoring a conference leading 22.6 points per game and grabbing 10.1 rebounds per game which is tied for second in the conference. Kin currently has scored 953 points in her career which makes her just 47 points shy of becoming the 23rd player in program history to reach 1,000 points in her career.
Junior Bridget Landin is second on the team at 14.4 points per game and is grabbing 8.9 rebounds per game while junior Amber Schweiger is scoring 11.4 points per game and ranks second in the conference at 6.1 assists per game which is on pace to break Findlay's record for assist average in a season, currently held by Kelly Murray who averaged 5.9 assists in the 1987-88 season.
As impressive as the numbers are for those three juniors, it is senior Allison Utterback who has come on as of late and has lifted the Oilers in 2021. Utterback is coming off a career-high 22 points against Hillsdale on Saturday and is scoring 18 points per game over the previous five games and has her season average up to almost ten points per game. In that five-game stretch, Utterback is making 4.2 triples per game while shooting 49% from deep.
No. 9 Cedarville
The Yellow Jackets are currently ranked No. 9 in the country, but are coming off of an upset loss at the hands of the Tiffin Dragons on Saturday, Feb. 6. The loss will certainly drop the Yellow Jackets in Tuesday's poll, but at 15-2, Cedarville, which was on a 15-game win streak before Saturday's loss, is still very much in control of the G-MAC standings.
Cedarville has four players averaging in double-figures and are led by Ashlyn Huffman at 14.9 ppg. Isabelle Bolender is scoring 14.0 while Emily Chapman is at 12.9 and Allison Mader is scoring 10.2. All four of those players shoot threes at over 38%, led by Bolender who is making 44% from deep.
As a team, Cedarville shoots 40% from three which has them at the top of the conference in that stat. Their 85.5 points per game are also the best in the conference, four points per game higher than Kentucky Wesleyan who is in second at 81.4 ppg.
Walsh
The Cavaliers were 4-3 after their loss to the Oilers back on Jan. 10, but since then have gone 5-1 in their last six games and have climbed back up into third in the G-MAC standings.
There is arguably no team in the league who depends more on their starters than the Walsh Cavaliers. They are led by Mayci Sales at 18.8 ppg and right behind is the reigning Player of the Year in the G-MAC Quionche Carter at 17.9 ppg. Megan Ball scores 11.9 while Lexie Scarton scores 8.8 and Kimmie Borck scores 7.0. Despite these numbers from the starting five, specifically Sales and Carter, the Cavs are scoring just 79 points per game which is fifth in the conference.
Sales is also the team's leading rebounder at 10.0 reb/g which gives her a double-double average on the year. Carter grabs 7.7 rebounds. Scarton leads the team with 5.5 assists per game.
Malone
The Pioneers are a team trying to turn the corner and have put together some solid games this season to prove they can play with anyone. At 6-9, their record has them ninth in the conference standings, but they are winners of four of their previous six games and have six losses in the single-digits this season including against Cedarville and Kentucky Wesleyan who are the top two teams in the conference.
Holly Groff is the team's leader in scoring at 18.2 ppg which ranks fifth in the conference. Groff makes 39% of her attempts from deep and leads the conference with 50 made triples this year for an average of 3.3 per game. She also leads the team with 24 steals this season and has 3.4 assists per game and 4.7 rebounds per game.
Robin Campbell scores 12.8 ppg for the Pioneers and leads the team at 3.5 assists per game while Alexis Hutchinson is scoring 10.9 ppg and Madison Hunter scores 10.2 ppg. Hunter is the team's leading rebounder at 5.9 reb/g.