Complete Game Notes

ELMIRA, N.Y. -- The Elmira College women's basketball team will look to extend its home win streak to four consecutive games and even its record at .500 on Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. against Hartwick College in the 2016-17 Empire 8 Conference opener.

VESPUCCI SEEING DOUBLE

• Rachel Vespucci extended her streak of consecutive games with a double-double to four with her 15-point, 15-rebound performance in the win over SUNY Cortland before the new year.
• Over that four-game stretch, Vespucci has averaged 15.5 points and 13.8 rebounds per game.
• On the season, Vespucci climbed to third place in the Empire 8 in rebounds per game with a team-leading 10.0.
• Vespucci is the first Soaring Eagle to register a double-double in four straight contests in over 15 years.
• Vespucci is tied with Megan Brown of Stevens Institute of Technology for the most double-doubles in the Empire 8.
• Vespucci also ranks second in the E8 and 23rd in the nation with an average of 5.0 offensive rebounds per game.

CAREER BEST FOR GREEN

• Emily Green has played a crucial role during Elmira's three-game win streak, as she has scored double-digit points in all three contests.
• Green netted a game- and career-high 21 points last time out to lead the Purple and Gold over SUNY Cortland.
• Green also tied her previous career bests with seven made field goals and three 3-point field goals.
• During EC's three-game win streak, Green is averaging 16.3 points per game, as compared to the 7.5 points per game she scored during the first four outings of the year.

HARTWICK AT A GLANCE

• The Hawks enter Tuesday's conference opener at Elmira with a 3-5 overall record.
• Hartwick has dropped four of its last five games after starting the year with a 2-1 mark.
• Most recently, the Hawks lost both of its games in Miami, Florida, at the HoopMIA D3 Holiday Shootout against FDU-Florham and Eastern University.
• Their last win came against SUNY Oneonta by a score of 72-45 on November 29th. 
• Thanks to a league-leading effort from 3-point range, Hartwick ranks second in the E8 in scoring with 64.5 points per game. 
• The team also boasts a 31.9 3-point field goal percentage, tops in the conference, and is second with 6.5 treys per game, just one-tenth shy of Houghton (6.6). 
• Emily Stone, Jacqui Foreman and Carly Johnson each average double figures for the Hawks with 14.1, 13.1 and 12.4 points per game, respectively. 
• Foreman, a 5-foot-10-inch senior forward, ranks second in the E8 with a 52.5 field goal percentage and fourth in rebounds per game with 8.8. 
• Johnson is Hartwick's biggest 3-point threat, as she is first among qualifiers in the E8 with a 39.6 3-point field goal percentage and tied for first in made threes per game (3.0).