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PORTLAND PILOTS (3-22, 1-13 WCC)
at PACIFIC TIGERS (11-14, 4-10 WCC)
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016
Tip-off: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Arena (Capacity): Alex G. Spanos Center (6,150)
Live Video: TheW.tv
Live Stats: PacificTigers.com
 
POR vs. PAC
Overall Series: 7-7
Here: 3-3
There: 3-3
Neutral: 1-1
Last 5/Last 10: 0-5/5-5
Last 1: PAC 72, @POR 64 (Jan. 21 2016)
 
PORTLAND PILOTS (3-21, 1-12 WCC)
at SAINT MARY'S GAELS (19-6, 10-4 WCC)
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2016
Tip-off: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Moraga, Calif.
Arena (Capacity): McKeon Pavilion (3,500)
Live Video: TheW.tv
Live Stats: SMCGaels.com
 
POR vs. SMC
Overall Series: 20-41
Here: 13-16
There: 6-22
Neutral: 1-3
Last 5/Last 10: 0-5/0-10
Last 1: SMC 78, @POR 51 (Jan. 23, 2016)
 
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots play their final West Coast Conference road games of the regular season as they head to Stockton, Calif., and Moraga, Calif., to face the Pacific Tigers and Saint Mary's Gaels.
• First the Pilots face the Tigers on Thursday night at the Alex G. Spanos Center at 7 p.m.
• Tip-off on Saturday for Portland and Saint Mary's at McKeon Pavilion is set for 1 p.m.
 
LAST WEEK
• The Pilots dropped their only game last weekend 86-51 against the Gonzaga Bulldogs in Spokane, Wash.
• Junior Kaylie Van Loo and freshman Ellie Woerner each scored a team-best 13 points to lead the Pilots.
• Woerner has scored in double figures 13 times during the past 14 games.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Freshman wing Ellie Woerner is off to an impressive start to her collegiate career; she leads the team and is tied for 10th in the WCC in scoring with a 12.7 points per game mark, which is tied for second among all freshmen in the conference.
• Woerner has scored in double digits in 13 of her last 14 games and she's reached double figures during 19 of her 23 career games, which includes a career-high 19 points against both Willamette and San Francisco.
• 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 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 44 three-pointers, while Turley unfortunately missed several games with an injury.
• Junior guard Kaylie Van Loo is fourth in the WCC in assists (4.0) and is fifth in assists/turnover ratio (1.5); in WCC contests, she's averaging 4.6 assists a game, which ranks second.
• Sophomore forward Ashley Gray is shooting 51.9 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 twice.
• 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
• Pacific's win at Pepperdine on Saturday snapped a five-game losing skid.
• Senior guard Hailie Eackles is one of three Tigers scoring in double figures and is averaging 12.9 points per contest; Eackles scored 21 points against the Waves to reach 1,000 points for her career.
• First-year head coach Bradley Davis spent the past three seasons as an assistant with the Tigers.
• Paul Thomas is in his 10th year as head coach of the Gaels, who have dropped two out of their last three games.
• Saint Mary's leads the WCC in scoring (74.2 ppg), and senior guard and 1,000 career point scorer Lauren Nicholson is one of three Gaels averaging in double figures, putting up 17.4 points per ga