Basketball (Women's) | 2/17/2015 3:23:00 PM

CLARION, Pa. – It will be Cancer Awareness Night when the Clarion University women's basketball team hosts Edinboro in PSAC West action at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday night at Tippin Gym.
 
The Golden Eagles will be raising money for The Cancer Center at Clarion Hospital by selling t-shirts for $15 and accepting donations. T-shirts can also be purchased and donations made by calling the women's basketball office at 814-393-2200 or e-mailing head coach Jana Ashley at jashley@clarion.edu.
 
If you can't make it to the game, the game can be heard locally on WCUC, 91.7 FM and on the internet here or live stats can be followed here. Game notes for the contest can be read here.
 
Clarion (2-22 overall, 1-18 PSAC West) comes into the game off a 70-50 loss at Mercyhurst Saturday, while Edinboro (17-7, 14-6) fell to IUP 91-81 Saturday.
 
The Golden Eagles are led by Tania Holmes and Delrika Jones-Carey.
 
Holmes is sixth in the PSAC in scoring at 15.4 points per game and ranks third in the conference in 3-pointers made per game (2.3) and fifth in 3-point shooting percentage (34.2 percent) While also ranking sixth in steals (2.2 per game) and 24^th in assists (2.8 per contest). Coming off a 19-point game against Mercyhurst, the junior guard has reached double figures in nine of her last 10 games while scoring at least 19 points seven times during that span, a span that sees her averaging 18.3 ppg.
 
Jones-Carey, meanwhile, recorded her sixth double-double of the season Saturday tying her for sixth in school history in double-doubles by a sophomore with Jessica Albanese, who accomplished the feat in 2006. On the year, Jones-Carey ranks 12^th in the PSAC in rebounding with 8.0 board per game while adding 11.5 ppg.
 
Edinboro has four players in the top 21 in the PSAC in scoring led by Aignee' Freeland, who is 11^th at 14.1 ppg. Lauren Hippo ranks 18^th at 13.3 ppg, Valerie Majewski is 20^th at 12.7 ppg and Laurel Lindsey is 21^st at 12.6 ppg.
 
The Fighting Scots won the first meeting of the year between the teams 65-59 at Edinboro Jan. 17 despite a season-best 17 points from freshman point guard Amesha Harden-Pullium and 19 from Holmes. Majewski led Edinbor with 18, and Hippo had 16.
 
Clarion closes out its home season Sunday when it hosts Slippery Rock at 1 p.m. It will be Senior Day with the Golden Eagles lone senior, Hannah Heeter, who is injured, being honored.