The Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) women's basketball team is set to face Western Washington University in a neutral-site game at the CSN Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday, December 19. The game will tip off at 3:15 p.m. Mountain Time.
ENMU enters the matchup with a record of 6-3 and is currently on a four-game winning streak. In their most recent game, the Greyhounds defeated UT Dallas 68-47 in Richardson, Texas. Shay Moseberry led ENMU with a career-high 26 points, including seven three-pointers. She also recorded four steals and three blocks during the win.
Julieta Ceja contributed 13 points, five free throws, and three assists over 32 minutes. Aaliyah Smith added 10 points from the bench along with two steals and two assists. Nataya Lockett scored seven points while providing four assists and two steals.
Ceja leads ENMU this season with averages of 11.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game and has made ten steals so far while shooting over 44 percent from three-point range. Smith follows closely with an average of 11.3 points per game and has accumulated eighteen steals, shooting nearly 46 percent from the field. Lockett averages ten points per game alongside fourteen steals.
As a team, ENMU scores an average of 73.1 points per contest while limiting opponents to just under sixty points per game. The Greyhounds shoot forty percent overall and thirty-five percent from beyond the arc. They force nearly twenty-three turnovers per contest and average almost thirteen steals each game.
Western Washington comes into Friday’s meeting with a record of nine wins and two losses, having won six consecutive games—their latest being a victory over Seattle Pacific on December 5 by a score of 67-43. Senior forward Olivia Hodges recorded her ninth double-double in eleven games with twenty-one points and seventeen rebounds against Seattle Pacific.
Hodges leads Western Washington in both scoring (18.9) and rebounding (12.9), shooting just over fifty-three percent from the floor this season while adding eight steals to her stats line. Libby Stump is averaging almost fourteen points per contest for the Vikings along with twenty-two total steals; Demi Dykstra contributes twelve points each game while hitting nearly forty-seven percent of her three-point attempts.
The Vikings average seventy point three points offensively while allowing just under fifty-nine defensively; they shoot over forty-four percent overall as a team but just above thirty-one percent from long range, dominating their opponents on the boards by more than eleven rebounds per outing.
This will be only the second time that Eastern New Mexico faces Western Washington in program history; Western Washington leads the series one win to none.
There will not be a television broadcast for Friday's matchup but live statistics are available online through provided links. ENMU is scheduled to play Simon Fraser University on Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas following this contest.
