HOUSTON – HBU women's basketball looks to improve their win streak, as they host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for its 2018 season finale Saturday, Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. in Sharp Gym, where they will honor senior forward
Blair Gillard, prior to the start of the game. The Legacy Sports audio and video broadcast with Lonnie King will be available at HBUHuskies.com.
The Huskies (10-17, 6-11 SLC) lead scorer junior guard
Amanda Johnson is currently sixth in the conference with 15.2 points per game and her free-throw percentage of .807 (71-of-88) is ranked seventh. She is shooting 42.6 percent from the floor, while pulling down 4.3 boards a game. Sophomore guard
Sydney Carr averages 8.2 points and 4.1 rebounds a game, while sophomore forward
Lauren Calver averages 8.2 points and 4.7 rebounds a game. In conference action only, Carr puts up 9.5 points and brings down 4.5 boards and Calver adds 9.3 points and 5.5 boards a game. Other leaders include sophomore guard
Britta Daub, who leads the team with 3.0 assists, junior center
Natalia Gwarda, who leads the conference in blocked shots (1.7 blocks/game).
Brittany Mbamalu leads the Islanders (17-11, 10-7 SLC) scoring in double-figures, along with Emma Young and Dalesia Booth and Dae Dae Evans. Mbamalu averages 12.7 points and 4.1 rebounds. Young is shooting 45.5 percent from the floor and is 27-of-67 from the 3-point range with 11.9 points and 7.3 boards a game She ranks fifth in the conference with an .838 free throw percentage and second in 3-point percentage (.403).
In the last meeting, the Islanders took the win, 50-49, at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, improving to 7-5 over HBU.
