Ramus Faces Former Team as Lady Raiders Travel to WVWC Saturday

Dec. 8, 2006

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg women's basketball team will face play its fourth game out the last six against a team from the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) on Saturday when the Lady Raiders travel to Buckhannon, West Virginia to take on West Virginia Wesleyan. Game time from Rockefeller Center is at 4:00 p.m.

The game, which can be heard live on Shippensburg University radio station WSYC 88.7 FM and on the internet at raiders.ship.edu, will mark the return of Lady Raider senior guard Samantha Ramus (New Cumberland/Trinity) to Buckhannon for the first time since she transferred to Shippensburg following the 2003-04 season.

As freshman at West Virginia Wesleyan, Ramus played in 13 games, totaled six points and five rebounds. She also added also added four assists and two steals as the Lady Bobcats had a 13-14 record.

Since coming to Shippensburg, Ramus has appeared in all 61 of the team's games with 35 starts while averaging 5.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists. A year ago, she ranked seventh in the PSAC in assists per game at 4.5 per game after finishing the season with a team-high 122
assists, the second-highest total on the team since the 2001-02 season.

The Lady Raiders have been on a roller coaster through the first seven games of the 2006-07 season and are looking for their first back-to-back wins since Jan. 15, 2006 when the team won two-straight at home in PSAC crossover play against Cheyney and Millersville. During that span of 18 games, Shippensburg has posted a 5-13 record.

Under eighth-year head coach Kristy Trn, the Lady Raiders are 19-12 against teams from the WVIAC, including 1-1 against West Virginia Wesleyan. Led by a career-high 23 points from junior guard Megan Fogle (Wrightsville/Eastern York), Shippensburg handed the Lady Bobcats a 64-59 loss on Jan. 4, 2006 at Heiges Field House in what was supposed to be a home game for West Virginia Wesleyan.

Fogle also added seven rebounds and four assists while senior center Shanna Oaddams (Willingboro, N.J./Willingboro) totaled 18 points and a game-high 16 rebounds for her sixth double-double this season and the 20th of her career.

Two years ago, Sarah Grab scored a game-high 21 points to go along with a team-high nine rebounds to lead West Virginia Wesleyan to a 60-55 victory on Nov. 15, 2004 in the season-opener for both teams. Shippensburg, who shot just 29.6-percent from the floor, was led by Oaddams' 21 points and 17 rebounds, both game-highs.

The Lady Raiders enter the game following last Sunday's 87-75 loss at East Stroudsburg in a PSAC crossover game against the Warriors who were picked by the conference coaches to win the PSAC Eastern Division this season.

Shippensburg was led by a game-high 28 points from freshman forward Lauren Beckley (Fairfield/Fairfield) who was named PSAC Western Division Player of the Week on Monday, a week after she was named PSAC Western Division Rookie of the Week on November 28.

Beckley averaged 27.2 points and 6.3 rebounds in three games last week and through seven games this season, she leads the team in scoring at 22.0 points per game and is second in rebounding, averaging 7.3 per game.

Meanwhile, Oaddams, an All-PSAC Western Division First Team selection a year ago, leads the team in rebounding at 9.0 per game. She now has 807 career rebounds to go along with 1,174 points as she is looking to become just the second player in school history with 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds.

Following Saturday's contest, the Ladt Raiders will have a 10-day layoff for exams before returning to the court on Tuesday, December 19 when they will welcome Bloomsburg to Heiges Field House with tip-off set for 6:00 p.m.

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