Runnin’ Bulldogs Journey to Second-Place Longwood on Wednesday Night time

FARMVILLE, VA – The Gardner-Webb girls’s basketball workforce appears to make it 5 consecutive wins on Wednesday night time and proceed its late-season climb up the Big South Conference standings when the Runnin’ Bulldogs go to second-place Longwood

GAME INFORMATION

Game 27: Gardner-Webb (10-16, 7-5 Big South) at Presbyterian (18-7, 9-3 Big South)

Location: Joan Perry Brock Center – Farmville, Va.

Stream: ESPN Plus

Tip-Off: 7:00 pm

Series History: GWU leads 18-15

Previous Meeting: January twenty eighth – Longwood, 76-70

THE MATCH-UP: Longwood and Gardner-Webb meet within the return match-up in Farmville, having confronted off in Boiling Springs simply three weeks in the past. GWU led via three quarters in one of many workforce’s highest scoring video games of the season however have been unable to safe the victory late in a hard-fought, 76-70 defeat

LAST TIME OUT: Gardner-Webb made it 4 straight wins at Presbyterian on Saturday afternoon. Behind a season and carer-best 22 factors from junior guard Anaya Harris, the Dawgs constructed a lead of as many as 24 within the fourth quarter in an eventual 62-50 highway win

SPEAKING OF: In the win at Presbyterian on Saturday, Harris additionally shot 7-of-11 from the ground, 8-of-10 on the line, together with 4 steals and two assists. Against CSU on Wednesday, Harris scored simply six factors but additionally had 4 rebounds in 23 minutes. For the week, the Raleigh, N.C. native averaged 14 factors per sport on 10-of-19 taking pictures general

WINNING STREAK: Gardner-Webb takes its longest successful streak because the 2022-2023 season into Farmville on Wednesday night time, in search of so as to add a fifth consecutive win. The Runnin’ Bulldogs posted a program document 21 straight wins in the course of the 2022-23 season, with the primary 5 of that streak coming between December and January of that season firstly of Big South play

BIG MINUTES: Freshman ahead Sara Menendez has been big for Gardner-Webb within the midst of the current successful streak. In 20 minutes on Wednesday in a win in opposition to Charleston Southern, Menendez scored 11 factors on 3-of-5 taking pictures from lengthy vary, all within the fourth quarter. She then added 9 factors on 4-of-5 taking pictures whole in 21 minutes within the win at Presbyterian. For the week, Menendez shot 8-of-11 general, 4-of-7 from three, and averaged 10 factors per sport

AROUND THE LEAGUE: At 7-5 within the Big South and at present the No. 4 seed, Gardner-Webb has now constructed a full sport lead over 6-7 Charleston Southern and a two-game lead over 5-8 Winthrop. The Runnin’ Bulldogs maintain the head-to-head tiebreaker over every within the occasion of a tie within the last standings