GAME NOTES:

• The Snow College women's basketball team will head to Midland, Texas, for the Women's National Invitation Tournament. The Badgers will take on three opponents over the course of the event. 

 

• They will open against the host school, Midland College Thursday at 6:00 p.m. MST. The Badgers will then take on No. 11 South Plains College Friday at 3:00 p.m. MST and will wrap up the classic against Odessa College Saturday at 1:00 p.m. MST. 

 

• The Badgers are coming off the Eagle Classic in Price, where they defeated both of their opponents. The Badgers took down Central Wyoming College 69-54 and Eastern Wyoming College 81-47.  

 

• Snow College has been in the driver's seat in its first seven games; it has led at halftime in each of them. The Badgers are 69-12, Head Coach Zu Grinzell, when leading at halftime. 

 

• The Badgers have finished each game with a better shooting percentage than their opponents. They are 79-18 when outshooting their opponent under Head Coach Zu Grinsell. 

 

• The Badgers have had more steals than their opponents in five of the first seven games of this season. They have won all five of those games and are 1-1 when they have fewer steals.  

 

• Snow College is 1-1 all-time against Midland. Their last meeting came in 2018 to the tune of a Chaparral 56-41 win. The Badgers' sole victory came in 2011, 79-74. 

 

• The Texans and Badgers have met once before in 2019, and South Plains took the meeting 66-46. 

 

• This will be the first meeting between Snow College and Odessa in women's basketball. The Wranglers hold a record of 6-3 to start the season. 

LAST TIME OUT: The Badgers opened with a 10-6 lead at the halfway mark of the quarter and would maintain the distance by the end of the first quarter for a 14-10 lead. Snow College would use the second period to grow its lead as big as 12 points by the half, 33-21. 

The Rustlers came into the second half with renewed vigor as they went on a 12-2 run to cut the deficit to two. The Badgers would respond with their own 15-2 run to close out the quarter up 50-35. 

CWC would open the final quarter of the game on a 9-2 run to cut the lead to nine points. The Badgers would build up their lead back to 15 and maintain the advantage for the rest of the fourth period, defeating CWC, 69-54. 

Snow College had 46 points off the bench, with Dalana Jakovljevic leading the way offensively to record her first career double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Hillary Akomatsri was the Badgers' second leading scorer with 15 points. 

The Badgers and Lancers were tied up early in the first five minutes of the game at eight points apiece, but the Badgers were able to spark a 10-0 run to close the first quarter. They kept their foot on the gas and outscored EWC 26-10 in the second period to take a 44-18 lead at half. 

The Lancers' offense woke up in the second half, but it wasn't enough to catch up to the Badgers. The Badgers would score the final eight points of the match to close the game 81-47. 

Lala Baldwin led Snow College in scoring with 25 points on 10-13 shooting from the field and 5-7 from three. Two other Badgers scored double-digit points, as Avery Allred chipped in 18, and Akomatsri with 12.

UP NEXT: The Badgers will head to their final road tournament of the season, the Salt Lake Classic hosted by Salt Lake Community College. They will face two opponents, starting with Arizona Western College Friday at 3:00 p.m.

Snow College is 3-4 all-time against AWC, with their last meeting coming in the 2021-2022 season, where the Badgers fell 65-52. 

 They will turn around and play CWC Saturday at 11:00 a.m. The Badgers played the Rustlers a week ago, where they picked up a 69-54 win. They improved to a 13-0 record against CWC since their first meeting in 2015.  For video streaming and live stats information, visit snowbadgers.com.