PREVIEW: GS Women's Basketball Opens Home Slate Monday Against Coastal Georgia
11/12/2017 2:09:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Eagles face the Mariners for the first time in the regular season
STATESBORO, Ga. - The Georgia Southern women's basketball team opens up its 2017-18 home slate by welcoming in the College of Coastal Georgia on Monday for a 5 p.m. contest at Hanner Fieldhouse.
The Eagles (0-1) dropped their season-opener on Friday, seeing North Carolina A&T use a 16-0 second-half run to pick up a 60-49 win. Georgia Southern uncharacteristically struggled from three-point range in the matchup, hitting just two of 21 three-pointers. But the Eagles will be happy to get back to the friendly confines of Hanner, where Georgia Southern won eight games last year and had their best home record since 2010-11.
Monday's opponent will be the College of Coastal Georgia. The Mariners (2-1) are an NAIA squad from Brunswick, Ga., who faced the Eagles last season in an exhibition contest last season, but this will be the first regular season meeting between the two teams. Georgia Southern won last season's exhibition, 96-44, and Amira Atwater had 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the floor in the contest, leading the Eagles returners for this season in the game.
The game will be part of a doubleheader with the Georgia Southern men, who face off against Cal State Bakersfield at 7:30 p.m. Students get free pizza while supplies last for the women's game and free t-shirts for the men's game while supplies last. GS is also giving away 1,000 free LED wristbands to fans at both contests.
You can watch and listen to the call of the game via True Blue TV and follow live stats of the contest.
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