March 17, 2017
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Penn State Women's Basketball
Penn State vs. Ohio
WNIT ââ'¬" First Round
March 17, 2017
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
// Senior Sierra Moore's 20 points marked a season-high and just her second career 20-point game. Her only other 20-point game was a career-high 21 tallies vs. Wagner on Dec. 7, 2014.
// The eight made field goals for Moore tie Helen Darling's Penn State WNIT record vs. Villanova on March 13, 1998.
// The Pennsylvania native also grabbed six rebounds, three of them offensive.
// Moore has now scored in double-digits in eighth-straight games and 20 times in 2016-17.
// With her first basket of the game, senior Kaliyah Mitchell surpassed the 900-point mark and ended the night with 906 career points.
// Mitchell also grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the team for her fifth 10-plus rebound game this season and 18th of her career.
// True freshman Jaida Travascio-Green moved into a tie for No. 4 on the freshman single season 3-pointers made charts with Jess Strom (2001-02) with a three in the second quarter.
// True freshman Siyeh Frazier set a career high with 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field and also collected two rebounds. It was the first time in her career she's scored in double figures.
// Sophomore Teniya Page's 11 points make it 14-straight games in double figures and 27 of 29 games in 2016-17.
// Page was one rebound short of her first career double-double for the second time this season, pulling down a career-high-tying nine boards. She also had nine rebounds at Illinois on Feb. 14, 2017.
// Page's three assists moved her career total to 236, moving her into No. 22 on the all-time list, passing Jenny Kretchmar who has 234 from 1990-93.
// Redshirt freshman Amari Carter tallied 12 points, her sixth double-figure scoring game of the season and first since January 11, 2017 at No .3/3 Maryland.
// Sophomore Jaylen Williams tied Penn State's WNIT record with two blocked shots, equaling Andrea Garner's two swats at Baylor in the 1998 WNIT Championship game.
TEAM NOTES
// Penn State is now 5-1 all-time in its three appearances in the WNIT.
// The Lady Lions are now 2-0 all-time against Ohio. The first victory in the series came in the season opener of the 1986-1987 season.
// Penn State scored 50 points in the paint, the first time it has reached that mark since the second game of the 2016-17 season against St. Peter's.
// Penn State posted program-bests for points (74), free throws attempted (24), rebounds (49) and blocked shots (5) in a WNIT contest.
// The Lady Lions also tied the program record for field goals made (28), free throws made (15) and 3-pointers attempted (15) in a WNIT contest.