Black Hills State University Athletics

Black Hills State University Yellow Jacket Athletics

Women's Basketball 1/16/2017 12:39:00 PM By Abigail Siekmann, BHSU Sports Information

WBB: Yellow Jackets Head to Rapid for Rivalry Game

THE GAME - South Dakota Mines

The two teams meet for the 95th time on the hardwood with a tip off scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The Yellow Jackets trail in the all-time series, 50-44.
Megan Rohrer and Anna Haugen are the top leaders both offensively and defensively for the Hardrockers. Both have received RMAC Player of the Week honors. Rohrer averages 10.6 points per game while Haugen is right behind with 8.2 points per game. Defensively, Haugen averages 6.4 rebounds per game while Rohrer averages 6.2. Rohrer joins Taylor Trohkimoinen on the Preseason All-RMAC Team.
The Hardrockers were picked to finished 11th in the conference and currently rank 10th.

THE COACHES

Black Hills State University head coach Mark Nore owns a 259-167 record over 15 seasons with the Yellow Jackets. He is the all-time wins leader for Yellow Jacket basketball.
Ryan Larsen enters his fourth season with the Hardrockers. Prior to SDSMT, Larsen served as the recruiting coordinator, scouting director, position coach for guards and posts and the assistant women's basketball coach at the University of South Dakota.

BHSU STREAKIN'

The Yellow Jackets are on a two game win streak and have started the New Year off right. They look to continue their momentum throughout the rest of the season as they have hit the .500 mark in the conference and moved up to eighth place with a 6-6 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference record.

NEW YEAR, NEW TEAM

The Yellow Jackets found their momentum as they kicked off the New Year winning three out of the last four games to start the month of January off right at 3-1 and 2-0 on the road. Two out of the last four games, the Green and Gold defeated their opponents by more than 20 points. The other two games, Black Hills State went 1-1 against ranked opponents defeating South Central Region No. 6 Fort Lewis 53-52 and losing in a heartbreaking overtime match against undefeated No. 9 CSU-Pueblo 88-87.

A VIEW AT THE TOP

CSU-Pueblo is leading the RMAC with a perfect season at 17-0 and 11-0 in the conference. BHSU threatened that perfect season though as CSUP slipped away with the overtime victory, 88-87. The Yellow Jackets led the majority of the game and in the final seconds of the fourth quarter CSUP forced the overtime where in the last seconds, they took the victory with a game winning layup.

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