Girls’s Hoops Returns to Fairbanks for Video games vs. Yellowjackets and Falcons

FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Nanooks ladies’s basketball workforce returns to Fairbanks this week for 2 video games vs. the Montana State Billings Yellowjackets and Seattle Pacific Falcons. They tackle the Yellowjackets on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 5:15 p.m., earlier than concluding their two-game homestand on Saturday, Jan. 24, at midday vs. the Falcons.

Thursday, Jan. 22 – Canned Food Drive
vs. Montana State Billings | 5:15 p.m.
Alaska Airlines Gymnasium | Fairbanks

Saturday, Jan. 24 – Indigenous Appreciation
vs. Seattle Pacific | 12 p.m.
Alaska Airlines Gymnasium | Fairbanks

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Last Time Out
The Nanooks are coming off a highway journey to Western Washington and Simon Fraser final week. On Thursday, Jan. 15, they fell 72-47 vs. the WWU Vikings, with Tamai Mancuso main the way in which with 25 factors on 9-14 taking pictures. The guard went 3-5 from downtown and made all 4 of her free throws. On Saturday, Jan. 17, they dropped a 109-46 choice at Simon Fraser. Pearle Green posted a team-high 24 factors, going 7-16 from the sphere, 6-12 from three and 4-4 from the charity stripe.

#NookayNotes

• Tamai Mancuso leads the Nanooks in scoring this season, posting a mean of 12.9 factors per sport. That mark ranks tenth within the GNAC. She is pulling down 1.8 three-pointers per sport, which is seventh within the convention.
• Genevieve Velasquez is grabbing 4.3 rebounds to tempo the squad. Additionally, her 19 steals are probably the most by a Nanook.
• Emily Freeman has dished out probably the most assists on the workforce this season with 33.
• Amelia Brady leads Alaska with 10 blocked pictures.
• The ‘Nooks have scored the second-most bench factors within the GNAC this season with a mean of 23.3. That ranks 68th in Division II.

Meet the Opponents
Montana State Billings Yellowjackets (10-10, 2-5 GNAC)
Head Coach: Kevin Woodin (twenty second Season)

• The Yellowjackets cut up their two video games final week, defeating Northwest Nazarene 73-72 on Thursday, Jan. 15, and falling to No. 14 Central Washington 91-57 on Saturday, Jan. 17.
• Freshman ahead Cassie Chesnut leads the workforce with 11.5 factors per sport. Her 230 whole factors scored rank ninth within the GNAC. She sits fifth within the convention in rebounds per sport (7.8) and eighth in blocks per sport (0.9).
• MSUB is grabbing the second-most offensive boards per sport within the GNAC this season, averaging 13.4.

Seattle Pacific Falcons (4-12, 1-6 GNAC)
Head Coach: Karen Byers (2nd Season)

• The Falcons have dropped six of their final seven getting into their sport vs. the Nanooks, and are coming off two losses final week to No. 14 Central Washington (88-56) and Northwest Nazarene (72-62).
• Junior guard Layne Kearns is SPU’s high scorer this season, main the Falcons with 10.9 factors per sport. Her 86% free throw proportion ranks third within the convention.
• The Falcons are the highest shot-blocking workforce within the GNAC, averaging 5.1 rejections per sport. That mark ranks tenth in Division II. Junior ahead Grace Leasure is accountable for 2.1 of these blocks, which is the most effective mark within the convention and twenty second within the nation.

GNAC Standings

1. Central Washington (16-1, 7-0 GNAC)
2. Saint Martin’s (10-6, 6-1 GNAC)
3. Western Washington (14-5, 6-2 GNAC)
4. Northwest Nazarene (9-6, 4-3 GNAC)
5. Western Oregon (9-6, 4-3 GNAC)
6. Alaska Anchorage (11-5, 3-4 GNAC)
7. Simon Fraser (8-11, 3-5 GNAC)
8. Montana State Billings (10-10, 2-5 GNAC)
9. Seattle Pacific (4-12, 1-6 GNAC)
10. Alaska (0-15, 0-7 GNAC)

Canned Food Drive
Thursday’s sport in opposition to MSUB is Alaska’s canned meals drive. Fans who convey 4 canned meals gadgets for donation on the ticket workplace will get in FREE! All meals will go to the Fairbanks Community Food Bank.

Indigenous Appreciation
Saturday’s sport vs. SPU is Alaska’s Indigenous Appreciation sport, the place the Nanooks will debut their new Indigenous Appreciation jerseys and have a particular halftime efficiency from the Troth Yeddha’ Indigenous Dance Group.

What’s Next
The Nanooks are again on the highway subsequent week, taking up Northwest Nazarene on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 5 p.m. AKST, and Central Washington on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. AKST.

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