Beaver Falls, PA – The Geneva women’s basketball team had a disappointing 74-70 loss Saturday night against Chatham. The senior day loss drops the Golden Tornadoes to a 9-14 overall record, 6-10 in the President’s Athletic Conference (PAC).
“We do really good things; we play together, move the ball well but we have to have better defense,” said head coach Lori Wynn.
Geneva was successful early offensively leading at the half, 42-30. However, Chatham would go on a 19-2 point run in the opening five minutes of the third quarter to give them the final lead change of the game over Geneva.
Senior Heidi Mann (Colorado Springs, CO/Evangelical Christian Academy) earned her eighth double-double of the season with 16 points, 10 rebounds against the Cougars.
Sophomore Lydia Songer (Wexford PA/Pine Richland) scored 14 points while freshman Callie Ford (New Middletown, OH/Springfield Local) finished with nine points and seven rebounds.
Geneva finished the night honoring its two seniors in the graduating class of 2016; Heidi Mann and Nicole Hyland (Trafford, PA/Penn Trafford).
Hyland’s scored seven points and recorded a rebound on the night raising her career point total to 715 points, 510 rebounds. Graduating in three years obtaining a business degree, Hyland had an immediate impact of the program playing in every game her freshman year. In 2014 she was honored with the title of PAC women’s basketball player of the week.
Mann has etched her name into Geneva women’s basketball history as the current seventh highest career scorer with 1,350 points after Saturday’s game against Chatham, She also has 676 career rebounds.
Mann and Hyland, along with the rest of the Golden Tornadoes, will play their last regular season home game Wednesday, February 17 against Waynesburg starting at 5:30 p.m.
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