Saints Basketball Clash with 401 Rival Fanshawe

Saints Basketball Clash with 401 Rival Fanshawe

The St. Clair College Basketball teams will take on Fanshawe College (London) in a doubleheader Tuesday night at the SportsPlex beginning with the Women’s game at 6:00pm followed by the Men’s game at 8:00pm.

The St. Clair Women (7-2, West 3rd Place) remain nationally ranked at #12 in Canada and face a struggling Fanshawe squad who are 3-7 this season and lost to the Saints by a score of 86-69 in London on November 3rd. 5th year transfer guard Kaitlyn Overeem (Brantford, ON) leads the Saints in scoring and is 2nd among her OCAA counterparts at 20.1ppg but also tops the league in assists at 5.6 per contest while pulling down 6.7 rebounds per game. St. Clair’s Janae Smith (Warren, MI) averages double figures at 10.0ppg to go with 6.6 rebounds per game. Alison Cotton (London, ON) will be a focus for the Saints defensively as she nearly averages a double-double for Fanshawe scoring 13.2ppg and pulling down 9.9rpg.

After going 2-1 at the Dalhousie University Tournament in late December and winning a pair of games at the George Brown College Tournament Jan. 5-6, the St. Clair Men (8-2, West 1st Place) still hold the 11th spot in the most recent CCAA poll. Fanshawe (6-5, West 6th Place) are coming off a road win at Lambton last week which has improved their playoff standing but fell 96-49 in early November to the Saints.

St. Clair have five double digit scorers led by 5th year 6’4” forward Chad Vincent-Simon (Scarborough, ON) who is producing top-10 provincial scoring at 17.2ppg (8th OCAA) to go with 6.3 rebounds per game. 1st year guard Andrew Loyuk (Windsor, ON/Kennedy) is dropping in 13.5ppg and leads St. Clair with 4.8 assists per game. 5th year 6’3″ guard Jesiah Deerr (Whitby, ON) is close behind at 13.4ppg including a team best 20 triples on the year.

3rd year 6’7” transfer forward Mazin Tiea (Windsor, ON/Kennedy) averages 12.1ppg but leads the Saints at 6.5rpg and 2.0 blocked shots per game. 3rd year 6’4″ transfer forward Galdo Tutu (Windsor, ON) chips in with 11.7ppg off the bench while shooting 54% from the field and 50% from deep. Fanshawe is led by 6’5” forward Aidan Whalen (Cambridge, ON) who is 7th in OCAA scoring at 18.3ppg while adding 6.9rpg.

The Saints Student Athletic Association is giving out free t-shirts to the first 250 fans in attendance.