Game Time...Northwestern College resumes its season this weekend at the Dordt Classic. The Red Raiders will play No.15 Friends University at 2pm on Friday, Dec. 30, and will then play Viterbo at 11am on Saturday, Dec. 31.
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All-Time...Northwestern is 4-0 all-time against Viterbo, last playing the V-Hawks during the 2012-13 season. This will be the first ever match-up against Friends.
Previous Match-Ups vs Viterbo (4-0 all-time)
2012-13: 82-36 (Away)
2011-12: 88-65 (Home)
2005-06: 94-49 (Neutral)
2003-04: 71-47 (Home)
Scouting Reports...
No. 15 Friends University Falcons: 8-0, 11-2 Head Coach: RaeAnne Boothe (7th year)
The Falcons have won 11 straight games after opening the season with consecutive losses to a pair of ranked GPAC teams, Hastings and Concordia. They are unbeaten in KCAC play (8-0) and bring an 11-2 record into the weekend. Among their 11 wins, two are against ranked teams; (RV) Doane and #20 Tabor.
Coach Boothe is in her seventh season and has guided the Falcons to five straight 21+-win seasons and to the NAIA D-II National Championship four of the last five years. She is 131-61 all-time and returns two starters and eight players from last year's squad that finished second in the KCAC with a 15-5 record, 22-11 overall. They lost to Ozarks in the first round of the championship.
Top Players:
Shann Sellers-All-American (1st team); Player/Defense Player of Year in KCAC; 23.8ppg, 9.8rpg, 75 blks
Lexi Evans-10.ppg, 31 3pters (31%)
Yowanna Posey-9.8ppg, 4.6rpg, 59% FG
Makenzie Vining-8.9ppg, 17 3pters
Viterbo University V-Hawks: 1-4, 2-14 Head Coach: Bobbi Vandenberg (24th year)
Members of the North Star Athletic Conference, the V-Hawks are 2-14 overall this season. They have lost five straight games since defeating Waldorf (63-51) on Dec. 3. Viterbo has lost to Jamestown, Wartburg, Valley City State, Dakota State and St. Ambrose since. The V-Hawks other win is an 82-75 win over Buena Vista on Nov. 18.
Vandenberg has over 300 wins, now in her 24th season as the V-Hawks head coach. Last year, she guided Viterbo to a 6-23 overall record and a seventh place finish in the NSAA.
Top Players:
Alyssa Nilssen-11.4ppg, 7.4rpg
Mariah Weddle-10.ppg, 4.3rpg
Payton Curry-6.8ppg, 3.2rpg
Northwestern Notes...
The Red Raiders have dropped two straight games, both to ranked teams, and are 3-5 in the GPAC, 9-5 overall
All five losses have come against ranked teams and all from teams in the GPAC
Northwestern is scoring 76ppg, shooting 43% from the field
Red Raiders are +4 in rebounding on the year
Kassidy De Jong ranks third in the NAIA in scoring (22.2ppg)
Haley Birks averages 15ppg and has scored in double figures in 10 games
Darbi Gustafson averages 11ppg and has scored in double figures in six consecutive games
Gustafson leads the GPAC in rebounding (9.6); has a GPAC-leading five double-doubles
Paige Danner scores 10.2ppg and leads the team with 20 three-pointers
Renee Maneman averages 10ppg and leads the NAIA with 106 assists
Maneman ranks 11th all-time with 376 career assists
