Play-by-play personality Chris DiGiacomo will have the call as the game is webcasted via PennAtlantic. Fans can view the webcast for free by visiting the link on the athletics home page calendar.
The Lightning, led by fourth-year head coach Jen Carleton, are coming off a 17-12 record and Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament semifinal appearance in 2009-10 and have nearly everybody on that roster back.
GBC, which returns last year’s top-seven scorers and all five starters, was picked to finish second in the CACC South Division in this year’s pre-season coaches poll behind only Holy Family. The Lightning even garnered two first-place votes among the league’s head coaches.
Among the key returning players are All-CACC 2nd Team redshirt-junior Jacinda Jones (15.7 ppg) and All-CACC honorable mention sophomore Devonne Richardson (10.9 ppg, 9.8 rpg).
Guard Janae Weldon and forward Arielle Alford both also return for their senior seasons already among the school’s all-time leaders in various statistical categories. Weldon enters the 2010-11 campaign fourth on the school’s all-time career points list with 874, No. 1 in career three-point field goals with 120 and No. 5 in assists with 206. Alford, who missed a good portion of the beginning of the season last year is back at full strength and already the all-time leader in blocked shots (134), No. 4 on the career rebounds list (576), and No. 10 on the career assists list (102).
Carleton also added three talented recruits into the mix as Melanie Johnson (St. Peters/Staten Island, N.Y.), Briana Richmond-Peters (Brimm Medical Arts HS/Camden, N.J.) and Taylor Leonard (John A. Coleman Catholic/Hurley, N.Y.) will all join an up-and-coming Lightning squad in 2010-11.
Under Carleton, the Lightning are 1-2 in season-openers having lost last year’s opener on the road at St. Thomas Aquinas, 72-58. The one season-opening win under Carleton was the only one played at home, an 88-54 win over Concordia on 11/16/2008.
The Spartans are coming off a 15-13 record in 2009-10 and return eight letter winners from last year’s roster. They come into 2010-11 ranked third in the East Coast Conference pre-season poll voted on by the league’s coaches.
STAC opened the 2010-11 season this past weekend at the Dominican College Classic, splitting games with two CACC schools to start the season off 1-1. They first handed the reigning CACC champion Nyack a 76-61 loss but then fell to the host Dominican College Chargers, 57-31.
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