MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran women's basketball team (12-2 overall, 5-1 UMAC) opens a three-game road trip and will face St. Scholastica (5-10, 3-4) Saturday at 4:45 p.m. The Vikings are tied for first and the Saints are sixth in the conference standings. BLC enters the weekend on a seven-game winning streak and St. Scholastica has dropped its last two.

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The Series
The Saints lead the all-time series at 18-12, but the Vikings have won the last four-straight.

Bethany Lutheran
Junior Hanna Geistfeld (Truman, Minn.) leads the team with 21.1 PPG. Classmates Abby Olson (Montevideo, Minn.) and Kenlie Pytleski (East Chain, Minn.) follow with 20.1 and 10.9 PPG, respectively.

Geistfeld nearly averages a double double with a team-high 9.3 rebounds/game and Olson has a team-best 46 assists and 29 steals.

Career Record Watch
Olson ranks second in three-point field goals (139), fifth in points (1,101) and assists (223), sixth in steals (136) and field goals (356), and seventh in free throws (245). Geistfeld is fourth in field goals (403), sixth in points (1,040), and ninth in rebounds (475). Pytleski is sixth in blocks (54). Senior Emily Skrien (Nicollet, Minn.) is ninth in three-point field goals (73).

Against the Conference
BLC leads the conference in scoring (77.7 PPG) and assist turnover ratio (0.94).

Geistfeld is the third-leading scorer (19.3 PPG), ranks first in free throw percentage (.867) and in field goal percentage (.592), and is the fourth-leading rebounder (7.8/game). Olson is the sixth-leading scorer (16.3 PPG).

St. Scholastica
The Saints have three in double figures as Kaylee Kennedy has 17.7 PPG, Karli Skog has 10.5, and Alison Huber has 10.2. Christina Furey leads the team on the glass with 5.1 rebounds/game.