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Three League Home Games on Tap this Weekend for Bucknell Women's Water Polo, Saturday's Contests to Air on Bison Vision
3/25/2010 8:00:00 AM | Women's Water Polo
March 25, 2010
Saturday, March 27
Bucknell vs. Princeton, 12 p.m. (Bison Vision
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Bucknell vs. George Washington, 6 p.m. (Bison Vision)
Sunday, March 28
Bucknell vs. Maryland, 1 p.m.
LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bucknell women's water polo team opens a four-game homestand with three league games this weekend at Kinney Natatorium. The Bison will host No. 19 Princeton (12 p.m.) and George Washington (6 p.m.) on Saturday, while Maryland (1 p.m.) will be their opponent Sunday. Both of Saturday's contests will have live video broadcasts available on Bison Vision.
Bucknell Women's Water Polo Notebook (9-7, 1-0 CWPA)
• Bucknell is the lone member of the CWPA Southern Division with a league win this season, having defeated George Washington 11-8 earlier this month in Washington, D.C.
• Bucknell is coming off a 3-2 trip to California over Spring Break. The Bison's two losses were to top-15 opponents UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.
• Bucknell's win at George Washington on March 11 marked the 200th victory in program history. The Bison are now 203-169 (.546) all-time. Including his time as an assistant coach, interim head coach and now head coach, John Abdou has been on the pool deck for 91 of those victories since first arriving at Bucknell in 2006.
• This coming weekend is the second of two Bucknell is at home this year. The Bison went 3-1 during February's Bison Invitational and are 43-16 (.729) all-time at Kinney Natatorium.
• Five of Bucknell's final six regular-season contests are against league opponents Princeton, George Washington and Maryland. The Bison will also face nationally ranked Hartwick on Wednesday, April 7, at Kinney Natatorium. It is a rare midweek home game for the Bison, who typically play on the weekends.
• Bucknell has gone a combined 10-2 the last two years against conference foes. The Bison are 12-2 in their last 14 regular-season league games against fellow Southern Division foes.
• Valentina Rozas enters this weekend one point shy of becoming the third Bison to tally 300 career points. She has piled up 214 goals and 85 assists in her four-year career. Kandis Canonica is not far behind with 291 points, including a program-record 152 assists.
• Kandis Canonica and Amanda Skonezney are the only two Bison to start all 16 games this year. Twelve different players have started at least three contests this season.
• Amanda Skonezney is the only Bison to win a sprint this year. The sophomore is 21-for-63, while the rest of the team is 0-for-5.
• Kandis Canonica has scored at least one point in all 16 games this year and has an 18-game point-scoring streak dating back to 2009. Rozas has also scored in all 16 games this year and 20 in a row overall.
• Alison Carter is just 27 saves shy of her 2009 total while playing 10 fewer games. She has tallied eight double-figure save performances this year and is now over 600 saves in her career, good for third on the program's all-time list. Her .519 save percentage is slightly higher than her career .516.
• Bucknell's freshmen (Krystle Morgan, Tara Murao, Erica White, Shannon Carroll) have combined for 31 goals and 19 assists this season.
• Hallie Kennan is Bucknell's leading scorer with a career-high 32 goals. She has registered six consecutive multi-point outings.
• Junior Haley Prickett posted her best game of the 2010 season last time out against No. 13 UC Irvine as she scored a season-high three goals, drew a season-high three ejections and recorded two steals.
• Bucknell's opening game of the weekend will be against No. 19 Princeton. The Bison are 0-5 against ranked opponents this season and have lost seven in a row overall to ranked foes.
Bison on Career Record Lists
Kandis Canonica: Points (4th, 291), Goals (8th, 139), Assists (1st, 152), Ejections Drawn (4th, 112), Shots (10th, 337)
Alison Carter: Saves (3rd, 607)
Shana Palencia: Points (10th, 218), Assists (7th, 90), Steals (8th, 151), Sprints Won (7th, 38), Shots (6th, 371), Games Started (9th, 96)
Valentina Rozas: Points (3rd, 299), Goals (3rd, 214), Assists (9th, 85), Steals (4th, 182), Ejections Drawn (2nd, 260), Shots (2nd, 524), Games Player (10th, 118), Games Started (5th, 114)
Amanda Skonezney: Sprints Won (2nd, 98)
Bucknell's Weekly Awards in 2010
CWPA Southern Division Player of the Week
- Kandis Canonica (Feb. 16), Hallie Kennan (March 1, March 15)
CWPA Southern Division Defensive Player of the Week
- Alison Carter (Feb. 16, March 15), Valentina Rozas (March 10)
CWPA Southern Division Rookie of the Week
- Krystle Morgan (Feb. 16)
Bucknell vs. Weekend Opponents
• No. 19 Princeton: 3-27 (Teams split four meetings in 2009, Bison are 3-5 in last eight meetings)
• George Washington: 23-13 (Bucknell has won 19 of last 20)
• Maryland: 17-8 (Bucknell has won three of last five meetings)
Up Next
• Bucknell will wrap up its home schedule with its final non-league game of the season on April 7 when it hosts Hartwick at 7 p.m. at Kinney Natatorium. The Bison lost an exhibition game to the Hawks, 19-8, in January.
