Game #23 vs. Stonehill (NEC)
Info: Friday, Feb 9 | Syracuse, N.Y. | 7 p.m. | Ted Grant Court
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Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College women's basketball team will conclude their three-game home stand on Friday evening with an NEC matchup against Stonehill College. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m., and the game will be streamed on NEC Front Row.

It will be the first meeting between the two sides since January of 2022 when they were both members of the Northeast-10 Conference. Le Moyne won the most recent game by a score of 70-59 in Syracuse but the Skyhawks lead the all-time series 27-10.

Friday's contest will also be a Play4Kay game in support of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund. Spectators are encouraged to wear pink. The Le Moyne women's basketball team has been raising money for the fund, which was founded in December 2007 from the vision of the organization's namesake, Kay Yow, the former NC State University head women's basketball coach and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who passed away from breast cancer in 2009.

Read more about the Play4Kay movement here.

The Dolphins went 1-1 during week 13 of the season with a win over Wagner (3-5 NEC) and a loss to Sacred Heart (8-1 NEC). Le Moyne (7-2 NEC) currently sits in second place in the NEC Standings.

Fifth-year guard Lytoya Baker (Rochester, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) recorded 12 rebounds and eight points during the win over Wagner, then she registered her NEC-leading eighth double-double of the season against the Pioneers with 20 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and two blocks.

Through nine conference games so far this season, Baker is currently averaging 15.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks, while leading the league in assist to turnover ratio (2.55).

Sophomore guard Sierra Linnin (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) has scored in double figures in six conference games so far this season, and is averaging 10.4 points against NEC opponents. Linnin's 2.3 made threes per league game is the fourth-best mark in the conference.

Junior guard Emily Florvil (Brooklyn, N.Y./Nazareth) has recorded at least one steal in each of Le Moyne's last seven games and is averaging 1.8 steals per conference contest, which is the fifth-best average among NEC players.

The Dolphins are currently first in the league in blocked shots (4.1 per game), assists (14.0), three-point field goal percentage (.340) and assist to turnover ratio (1.05) during conference play, and are second in field goal percentage (.400) and points allowed (55.9).

The Stonehill Skyhawks (3-6 NEC) are led by head coach Trisha Brown, who is in her 23^rd season at the helm of the program.

Stonehill went 0-2 during week 13 of the season with losses to Sacred Heart and Wagner. The Skyhawks' most recent conference victory came at home against Saint Francis on January 25, as graduate guard/forward Lauren Sampson recorded a season-high 23 points off the bench on 9-15 shooting from the field and 3-5 from three-point range.

Through nine games played this season, Sampson is averaging a team-high 14.6 points per game. Stonehill senior guard Jada Thornton is averaging 12.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.1 steals per conference game, while junior guard Sharn Hayward is averaging 11.8 points, a team-high 3.0 assists and 1.9 rebounds through nine conference starts. Hayward has made a league-best 29 three pointers against NEC competition on 44.6% shooting from beyond the arc.

Stonehill leads all NEC teams in three pointers made per conference game (7.0) and is second in offensive rebounding average (13.3).

Each team has two current players who took part in the most recent matchup between Le Moyne and Stonehill in 2022. For Le Moyne, Baker tallied 13 points, nine rebounds, four assists, one steal and zero turnovers during the Dolphins' 70-59 victory, while Haedyn Roberts (Holland Patent, N.Y./Holland Patent), then a redshirt-freshman, logged 22 minutes off the bench and contributed six points, three rebounds and one steal. Thornton and current junior forward Maureen Stapleton both appeared off the bench for Stonehill during that contest.

The two program's also met in the NE10 Championship Semifinals in 2020, with the Skyhawks claiming a two-point victory to advance to the tournament final.

Le Moyne's loss to Sacred Heart on Saturday was its first home loss during conference play this season. Prior to that game, the Dolphins had not given up more than 57 points to an NEC opponent on Ted Grant Court.

The Skyhawks will travel to Syracuse in pursuit of their first road victory this season. Stonehill has suffered single-digit conference setbacks at LIU, FDU and Wagner, and they fell at CCSU on January 8 by a score of 71-59.