Women's Basketball Wins 4th Straight With Victory At Central Penn

Penn State Lehigh Valley

Central Penn

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Penn State Lehigh Valley	23	18	21	13	75
Central Penn	19	5	11	21	56

Game Leaders

Penn State Lehigh Valley

Pts: Hannah Bankes - 17

Reb: Ashley Gordon - 13

Ast: Ashley Gordon - 7

Central Penn

Pts: Nicole Schmidhamer - 30

Reb: Nicole Schmidhamer - 16

Ast: Janay Nelson - 5

Team Stats

Game Statistics	Penn State Lehigh Valley	Central Penn
Field Goals	(28-70)	(21-61)
Field Goal %	40.0%	34.4%
Rebounds	37	43
Assists	16	9
Turnovers	22	39
Pts off Turnovers	35	16
2nd Chance Pts	10	13
Pts in the Paint	26	20
Bench Pts	10	0

Full stats

January 8, 2016

SUMMERDALE, PA (January 7, 2015) - The Penn State Lehigh Valley Women's Basketball team won their 4th straight game defeating host Central Penn College, 75-56, Thursday night in Summerdale. The win improves Lehigh Valley to 6-3 on the season.

Four players scored in double digits for Lehigh Valley. Sophomore Hannah Bankes had another stellar showing leading the Lions with 17 points. Junior Ashley Gordon recorded a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Sophomore Andrea Watkins chipped in with 14 points. Freshman Lizzy Leiby added 11 points.

Central Penn shot over 50% from the field in the first quarter trailing Lehigh Valley, 23-19. The Lions went on a 14-2 run in the second quarter and held Central Penn to 5 points to take a haltime lead of 41-24. Lehigh Valley would not trail the remainder of the game.

Lehigh Valley will begin an eleven game conference schedule beginning this Tuesday, January 12th when they travel to Penn State Mont Alto for a 6 PM tip-off. The women currently sit in 2nd place in the PSUAC standings.

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