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PromotionsPORTLAND PILOTS (2-16, 0-7 WCC)vs. PACIFIC TIGERS (9-9, 2-5 WCC)Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016
Tip-off: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Portland, Ore.
Arena (Capacity): Chiles Center (4,852)
Live Video: TheW.tvLive Stats: PortlandPilots.comPOR vs. PAC Overall Series: 7-6
Here: 3-2
There: 3-3
Neutral: 1-1
Last 5/Last 10: 1-4/6-4
Last 1: PAC 80, @POR 78 (Feb. 19, 2015)
PORTLAND PILOTS (2-16, 0-7 WCC)vs. SAINT MARY'S GAELS (14-4, 5-2 WCC)Date: Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016
Tip-off: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Portland, Ore.
Arena (Capacity): Chiles Center (4,852)
TV: Comcast SportsNet NW
Online Video: TheW.tvLive Stats: PortlandPilots.comPOR vs. SMC Overall Series: 20-40
Here: 13-15
There: 6-22
Neutral: 1-3
Last 5/Last 10: 0-5/0-10
Last 1: SMC 62, @POR 58 (Feb. 21, 2015)
THIS WEEK The Pilots return home this week to host a pair of West Coast Conference teams at the Chiles Center.
First the Pacific Tigers visit on Thursday night for a 7 p.m. game.
On Saturday the Saint Mary's Gaels come to The Bluff to face the Pilots at 1 p.m.
Saturday's game with the Gaels will be shown live in the Portland area on Comcast SportsNet NW, which is channel 737 on Comcast.
LAST WEEK The San Diego Toreros defeated the Pilots in San Diego, Calif., on Thursday night before the Brigham Young Cougars overcame UP on Saturday in Provo, Utah.
Both sophomore Ashley Gray and freshman Darian Slaga scored a career-high 16 points during the 78-66 loss at BYU; Gray has scored 16 points in two of her last three games.
BYU led by just four after the first quarter and the Pilots out-scored the Cougars in the second half, but the 20-point deficit was too much to overcome.
Junior Kaylie Van Loo dished a career-high nine assists.
ABOUT THE PILOTS Freshman wing Ellie Woerner is off to an impressive start to her collegiate career; she leads the team and ranks 10th in the WCC in scoring with a 12.4 points per game mark.
Woerner has scored in double digits in eight straight games and she's reached double figures during 15 of her 18 career games, which includes a career-high 19 points in her collegiate debut vs. Willamette (Nov. 14).
She grabbed a career-best nine boards at Pepperdine (Dec. 23), matching a season-high for the Pilots.
Woerner is one of six newcomers for the Pilots, to go along with just six returners.
Junior transfer guards Holly Blades and Rachelle Owens both came to The Bluff from the College of Southern Idaho, while forward Corissa Turley previously attended College of the Sequoias.
Blades is tops on the team and seventh in the conference with 30 three-pointers, while Turley leads the team in free throw percentage (.833).
Junior guard Kaylie Van Loo is fifth in the WCC in assists (3.8 apg).
Sophomore forward Ashley Gray is shooting 57.6 percent from the field and is tops on the team in rebounds with a 4.2 per game mark; she has scored a career-high 16 points in two of the last three games.
During the summer, sophomore center Sara Zaragoza helped Spain claim the gold medal the 2015 U-20 FIFA European Championships.
Cheryl Sorenson is in her second season as head coach of the Pilots after assuming the role last year after long-time coach Jim Sollars' retirement; she spent her first three years on The Bluff as an assistant coach.
The Pilots lost three 1,000-point scorers to graduation; Cassandra Brown (1,396 points), Kari Luttinen (1,366 points) and Jasmine Wooton (1,130 points) all reached that historic milestone last year, becoming the first Pilot trio to do so in the same season.
Brown captivated the nation last year when she won the 2015 State Farm Three-Point Championship (men's and women's) on ESPN, which was part of Final Four Weekend in Indianapolis, Ind.
Portland has been to four NCAA Tournaments (1994-97), two WNIT's (1998 & 2009) and one WBI (2010).
ABOUT THE OPPONENTS The Tigers have lost two straight at home to drop to 9-9 overall and to 2-5 in the WCC under first-year head coach Bradley Davis, an assistant at Pacific the previous three seasons.
Senior guard Hailie Eackles is one of two Tigers scoring in double figures and is averaging 13.7 points per contest; junior forward Mauriana Clayton is the team's top rebounder (6.3 rpg).
Paul Thomas is in his 10th year as head coach of the Gaels (14-4, 5-2 WCC), who have won four straight and boast an RPI of 48.
Saint Mary's leads the WCC in scoring (75.7 ppg), and senior guard and 1,000 career point scorer Lauren Nicholson is one of three Gaels averaging in double figures, putting up 18.9 points per game, which is third in the league.
SMC leads the nation in free-throws made (330).
