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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Northeastern State women's basketball team will head to Warrensburg, Mo., for the first of three games away from home. The RiverHawks (8-4, 3-1 MIAA) are set to do battle with Central Missouri (10-1, 2-1 MIAA) at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 9 inside the Multipurpose Building (6,500).
 
The Jennies are receiving votes in the most recent USA Today Division II Coaches' Poll released Dec. 18. The newest polls will be released later today.
 
SCOUTING THE JENNIES
Central Missouri brings a 10-1 record with a 2-1 conference mark into the matchup with the RiverHawks. The Jennies have defeated Emporia State (84-63) and Southwest Baptist (69-66), and the lone defeat came at the hands of Fort Hays State (95-50). Keuna Flax has only played in the last four games, but she has started all four and is averaging 24.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Shelby Winkelmann has missed the last three games, but she is second on the team this year at 17.6 ppg. BreAnna Lewis is averaging 16.5 ppg and Nicole Caddell averages 12.6 ppg and 10.6 rpg. Central Missouri leads the MIAA in scoring at 78.5 points per game.
 
LEWIS WINS WEEKLY MIAA ACCOLADE
Taylor Lewis was named the MIAA Women's Basketball Athlete of the Week on Feb. 7. The senior guard from Broken Arrow, Okla., led Northeastern State to two victories this past week, which included a 54-44 upset over No. 10 Fort Hays State. She recorded 17 points, four rebounds, three steals, and three assists against the Tigers. FHSU was held to its lowest point total of the season in the team's first loss of the 2012-13 campaign. Lewis then scored a season high 26 points in an 85-57 win over Nebraska Kearney in just 21 minutes. She went 9-for-11 from the field and 6-for-7 from behind the three-point line. On the week, Lewis averaged 21.5 points, while shooting 58 percent from the field and 64 percent from downtown. This was the first weekly honor for an NSU player in the MIAA, and it was also Lewis' first weekly accolade. The last time a RiverHawk women's basketball player picked up a weekly conference laurel was Feb. 8, 2011, when Jasmine Wright was honored as the Lone Star Conference North Division Offensive Player of the Week and Cristy Nitz was named the LSC North Division Defensive Player of the Week.
 
TOPPLING A GIANT
NSU team defeated No. 10 Fort Hays State 54-44 on Jan. 3. The RiverHawks held the Tigers to their lowest scoring output since Feb. 26, 2011, a span of 41 games. The win was the first for Northeastern State over a top-10 team since the squad took down No. 7 Washburn on March 13, 2010. FHSU center Kate Lehman entered the game as the nation's leading shot blocker and the second-best scorer in the MIAA. NSU held the 6-foot-4 sophomore to a season-low seven points and two blocks. She was held to her lowest point total since Dec. 30, 2011, a span of 29 games.
 
NSU RAINS SCHOOL RECORD 15 TREY'S
Northeastern State tied the school record for three-point baskets made in a single game in an 85-57 win over Nebraska Kearney Jan. 5. The RiverHawks finished 15-for-26 from behind the arc to finish with a season high in points. Senior guard Taylor Lewis led the way with six trey's. Sophomore guards Chelsey Stricklen and Fontana Tate both made three from downtown, junior guard Taylor Collins added two and senior guard Tosha Tyler added one.
 
STRICKLEN, TATE SET CAREER HIGHS
Chelsey Stricklen and Fontana Tate both scored a career-high 13 points in NSU's 85-57 win over Nebraska Kearney on Jan. 5. The duo of sophomore guards combined to shoot 9-for-15 from the field and 6-for-11 from downtown. They combined for seven rebounds, and Stricklen also dished out a career-best five assists.
 
LEWIS, GREEN SURPASS MILESTONES
Senior guard Taylor Lewis and senior forward Sarah Green both recorded their 100th career game in the green and white Nov. 24 against Tarleton State. Lewis has made 73 career starts and has scored in double figures 60 times, which includes a stretch sophomore year where she recorded 11 straight. Green owns 42 starts, has scored in double digits 16 times and has also recorded three double-digit rebounding efforts. Lewis also knocked down her 200th career three-point basket Nov. 20 against Northwestern Oklahoma State. She owns the school record for three's made in a game (8), season (87) and career (229). Lewis surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for her career against Drury. She now has 1,115 points in her four-year career.
 
VETERANS PACE THE RIVERHAWKS
Six members of the Northeastern State women's basketball are currently averaging at least 5.5 points per game, with five being upperclassmen. Leading the way for NSU is senior guard Taylor Lewis, who is averaging 14.9 points per game and 2.5 rebounds per game. Not far behind is fellow senior guard Tosha Tyler and her 11.6 ppg and 3.1 rpg. Senior forward Sarah Green checks in at 7.5 ppg and a team-leading 5.3 rpg, junior forward Carrington Fox currently sits at 5.9 ppg and 4.6 rpg, and junior guard Taylor Collins adds 5.6 points a night.
 
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