PEORIA, Ill. -- Bradley Women's Basketball will close out the first three-game November home stand in program history with a rare regular-season matchup with Eureka. The Braves take on the Red Devils Saturday in a 7 p.m. contest at Renaissance Coliseum.
Saturday night's game against Eureka caps a three-game home stand for Bradley, which started Sunday against 17th-ranked Oklahoma and also included Tuesday's Field Trip Day game against Western Michigan.
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BradleyBraves.com will provide a link to live stats and Ed Hammond will call the action on WIRL 1290 AM/102.7 FM (www.1290wirl.com) on the radio broadcast. No video stream will be available for Saturday's game.
Free admission for the first regular-season matchup with Eureka in over 30 years is available to anyone with a ticket stub from Saturday's Bradley Men's Basketball 1 p.m. home game against Ole Miss at Carver Arena.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for faculty/staff. Little Braves Club members receive free admission to all Bradley women's basketball teams. Season tickets are still available at the Bradley Athletics Ticket Office. For more information visit - http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=131065&DB_OEM_ID=3400&DB_OEM_ID=3400
Bradley (1-3 overall) and Eureka (0-3 overall) played an exhibition game at Renaissance Coliseum last year, but Saturday's matchup will mark the first regular-season meeting between the two teams since the Braves posted an 85-52 victory at Eureka on Jan. 26, 1981. Overall, Bradley owns a 9-3 advantage in the series, which includes a 5-1 home record.
Eureka is the first regular-season non-Division I opponent for Bradley since the Braves faced U.S. International University on Dec. 5, 1987 at the Diamond Classic in Gary, Ind. The Braves last regular-season home game against a non-Division I foe was Dec. 15, 1984 at Carver Arena against Lewis and a Nov. 20, 1984 season-opening game against St. Ambrose at Robertson Memorial Field House was the last on campus home contest against a non-Division I squad.
The Braves are 7-1 the last eight times they have ended the month of November with a home game and Bradley is 10-3 all-time when finishing November with a home contest.
Sophomore Anneke Schlueter (Ulm, Germany/Max-Weber-Schule) has a team-best seven three-pointers on the season and has scored exactly 12 points in three of four games. Schlueter is the first Brave to hit at least one three-pointer in the first four games of a season since Catie O'Leary in 2013-14 and is looking to become the first individual at Bradley to hit at least one three in the first five games of a season since 2008-09 (Michelle Lund - 8 games).
Senior Leti Lerma (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine) has come off the bench in each of the last three games after starting the season-opening victory at Detroit and is coming off her strongest outing of the year against Western Michigan. Lerma had 15 points, seven rebounds and a career-high four steals against the Broncos, marking the first 15-point, seven-rebound, four-steal performance by a Brave since Katie Yohn against Illinois State on March 15, 2013. The last Bradley player to reach those numbers in a game when coming off the bench was Genny Mueller at Drake on Jan. 4, 2003.
After wrapping up the home stand against Eureka, Bradley will play four of six games in the month of December on the road starting Tuesday, Dec. 2 with a 7 p.m. game at Chicago State.
