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CLARION, Pa. – The Clarion University basketball teams will host Gannon in a PSAC West men's and women's doubleheader Saturday starting at 5:30 p.m. with the women's game followed by the men's game at approximately 7:30 p.m.
  
Clarion's women's team enters the game against the No. 2 team in the country with a record of 6-6 including 1-2 in the PSAC West. The Golden Eagles have won four of their past five games.
 
Gannon, meanwhile, brings a perfect 15-0 overall and 4-0 PSAC West mark to Tippin Gym. The Lady Knights, who have a strong Clarion connection with first-year head coach Jim Brunelli (Class of 1996, Master's 2000) and assistant coach Mike Whitling (Class of 2004, Master's 2008) – a Keystone High School graduate, have won 20 consecutive regular-season games since losing to California (Pa.) Feb 9, 2013.
 
The game will feature some of the top players in the PSAC West including Clarion's Hannah Heeter, Emma Fickel and Kelly Johnson and Gannon's Jen Papich, Brittany Batts and Nettie Blake.
 
Heeter, a red-shirt junior, has been outstanding in her seven games since transitioning from the volleyball court to the basketball court Dec. 14 averaging 12.4 points and 12.4 rebounds per game while shooting 60 percent (36 of 60) from the floor and recording four double-doubles and five games of double-digit rebounding with three of them being games of 15 or more boards. If she had enough games to qualify for the conference leaderboard, she would lead the PSAC in rebounds while ranking third in shooting.
 
Fickel has had a nice bounce-back senior season and is tied with Johnson for the team-lead in scoring at 14.2 points per game, which ranks 20^th in the 18-team PSAC, while hitting a team-high 27 3-pointers. She is closing in on 1,000 career points with 938.
 
Johnson, a red-shirt freshman, adds 4.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.9 steals per game off the bench for Clarion and ranks fourth in the conference in steals.
 
Papich, the 2013 PSAC West Player of the Year, averages 12.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game for Gannon, while Batts leads the Lady Knights in scoring at 15.1 points per game, the 13^th best mark in the PSAC. Blake is the team's leading rebounder at 9.0 per game which ranks sixth in the PSAC and averages 14.4 points per contest.
 
The men's game features two teams trying to get on track.
 
Clarion enters the contest at 2-9 overall and 0-3 in the PSAC West. The Golden Eagles have dropped six straight games since beating Penn State-Beaver Dec. 15 including a 77-65 loss to West Chester Wednesday.
 
Gannon is 7-7 overall and 2-2 in the PSAC West. The Golden Knights have lost three of four but are coming off a 68-41 win over Cheyney Wednesday.
 
Junior guard DeMarius Miller is Clarion's leading scorer averaging 18.7 points per game, which ranks seventh in the PSAC. Miller has reached double digits in 10 of his 11 games including four games of 20 or more with two of those being 30 or more with a season-high of 42 vs. Penn State-Beaver. Miller adds 3.6 rebounds per game.
 
Mike Kromka chips in with 12.0 points and 8.8 rebounds per contest and has four double-doubles on the season including three in his last four games. He ranks second in the PSAC in rebounding.
 
Freshman BJ Andrews is adding 9.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game for the Golden Eagles, whose next win will be the 400^th at Clarion for 26^th year head coach Ron Righter.
 
Adam Blazek leads Gannon with 15.9 points per game while adding 3.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.1 steals per game. Tee Taley, who missed Wednesday's game with Cheyney, adds 9.3 points per game and 4.9 rebounds per contest with A'Darius Porter chipping in 8.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game and Raphell Thomas-Edwards scoring 7.9 points per contest to go with 4.7 rebounds.
 
Clarion's women's team is back in action at 6 p.m. Monday when it hosts Walsh (Ohio) in a makeup game from Nov. 26, while both teams return to conference play Wednesday at California (Pa.) with the women's game at 5:30 p.m. followed by the men at 7:30 p.m.