#1 Drury Lady Panthers (25-0, 15-0) at Maryville Saints (17-8, 11-5)
Game #26 – Sat., Feb. 23 – 1 p.m.
Moloney Arena – St. Louis, Mo.
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Lady Panthers play final regular season road game Saturday at Maryville
Number one ranked Drury plays their final regular season road game on Saturday as they travel to Maryville for a 1 p.m. game in St. Louis.
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The Lady Panthers are 25-0, 15-0 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and in first place in the GLVC. Maryville is 17-8, 11-5 in the league and is in fifth place in the conference's point rating system.
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Saturday's game is a rematch from a Feb. 7 contest played in Springfield that the Lady Panthers won 105-57. Drury leads the all-time series against Maryville 16-3 and has won eight straight against the Saints.
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Drury concludes the regular season next week with two home games. The Lady Panthers host Rockhurst on Thursday at 5:45 p.m., then will play William Jewell on Saturday at 1 p.m. for Homecoming and Senior Day.
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Notes to Know
--Drury's 25-game winning streak is the second-longest in program history. The Lady Panthers won 30 straight in their national runner-up season in 2003-04.
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Hailey Diestelkamp jumped to third in Drury's single-season scoring list and enters Saturday's game with 525 points. Only Amanda Newton with 544 points in 2003-04, and Lindsay Ballweg with 644 points in 2009-10 have scored more in a single year.
--Diestelkamp needs only two points to become the eighth player in program history to top 1,400 career points. She enters Saturday's game with 1,398 and is eighth on Drury's all-time scoring list. Â
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Daejah Bernard needs just 11 assists to break Drury's single-season record. Bernard comes into Saturday's game 157 assists, second-most in a DU season year and trails only Ja'Nell Jones' total of 167 in 2009-10.
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Paige Robinson's 70 three-pointers are tied for the ninth-best total in a Drury single-season.
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QUICK FACTS
Head Coaches
Drury:
Molly Miller (5th year, 138-16)
Maryville: Collin Lanam (3
rd year, 36-39)
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Last Game
Drury: won at Missouri-St. Louis 79-37 (Thursday)
Maryville: won vs Missouri S&T 88-66 (Thursday)
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Streak
Drury: Won 25
Maryville: 1
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Last five games
Drury: 5-0
Maryville: 3-2
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Previous Meeting
Drury 105 Maryville 57 (Feb. 7, at DU)
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All-Time Series
Drury 16-3
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STAT LEADERS
Drury
Points- #34
Hailey Diestelkamp 21.0 ppg (2nd in GLVC)
Rebounds- #34
Hailey Diestelkamp 9.0 rpg (3rd in GLVC)
Assists- #5
Daejah Bernard 6.3 apg (1st in GLVC, 8th in NCAA-II)
FG pct- #34
Hailey Diestelkamp .530 (6th in GLVC)
3's- #14
Paige Robinson 70 (1st in GLVC)
3-FG pct- #14
Paige Robinson .427 (4th in GLVC)
FT pct- #14
Paige Robinson .857
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Maryville
Points- #2 Mary Barton 15.2 ppg (5th in GLVC)
Rebounds- #44 Stephanie Sherwood 7.4 (7th in GLVC)
Assists- #2 Mary Barton 4.5 apg (2nd in GLVC)
FG pct- #24 Abby Monis .530 (6th in GLVC)
3's- #2 Mary Barton 49 (7th in GLVC)
3-FG pct- #2 Mary Barton .338
FT pct- #2 Mary Barton .905 (1st in GLVC)
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Up Next
Drury vs. Rockhurst – Thur., Feb. 28 – 5:45 pm
O'Reilly Family Event Center
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