MANKATO, Minn.-- The Bethany Lutheran women's basketball team (17-2 overall, 10-1 UMAC) takes to the road for its next three games, and will face North Central (9-10, 5-5) Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. The Vikings are in first and the Rams are in tied for foruth in the conference standings. BLC enters the week on a school-record 12-game winning streak and NCU has dropped its last two-straight.

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The Series
BLC owns the all-time series lead at 18-0.

Bethany Lutheran
Junior Hanna Geistfeld (Truman, Minn.) leads the team with 21.3 PPG and 9.3 rebounds/game. Classmate Abby Olson (Montevideo, Minn.) follows with 19.8 PPG, and has 67 assists and 37 steals.

Career Record Watch
Olson ranks second in three-point field goals (150), third in assists (240), fourth in points (1,196), tied for fifth in steals (144) and free throws (267), and fifth in field goals (387). Geistfeld is fourth in field goals (444) and points (1,150), and ninth in rebounds (527). Pytleski is sixth in blocks (58). Senior Emily Skrien (Nicollet, Minn.) is ninth in three-point field goals (76).

Season Record Watch
Geistfeld is eighth in field goals (154). Olson is fourth in three-point field goals (48).

National Stat Rankings
Bethany Lutheran ranks in the top 100 of 15 national stat categories, the NCAA released Monday.

The Vikings are: sixth in free throws (338), 13th in won-loss percentage (89.5), 16th in scoring offense (77.7), 22nd in points (1,476), 27th in assists/game (16.7), 30th in rebound margin (9.4), 33rd in rebounds/game (45.37), 36th in assists (318), 47th in scoring margin (14.4), 51st in assist turnover ratio (0.98), 54th in rebounds (862), 66th in field goal percentage (41.7), 67th in field goal percentage (72.4), 83rd in three-point field goals/game (7.1), and 85th in three-point field goals (134).

Individually, Geistfeld is eighth in field goal percentage (61.8), 10th in points/game (21.3), 11th in field goals (154), 14th in points (405), 20th in free throws (94), 86th in rebounds (182), and 87th in rebounds/game (9.6).

Olson is 27th in points (376), free throws (92) and points/game (19.8), 60th in three-point field goals (48), 69th in three-point field goals/game (2.53), 72nd in three-point field goal percentage (37.8), and 99th in field goals (118).

Against the Conference
BLC leads the league in offense (78.4 PPG) and field goal percentage (.438).

Geistfeld is the leading scorer (20.5 PPG), leads the conference in field goal percentage (.659), and is the third -leading rebounder (9.0/game). Olson is fifth in scoring (17.5 PPG).

North Central
Naomi Hagstrom leads her teamw ith 14.5 PPG, Emily DiGiorgio follows at 13.9 and Allison Bulthuis has 10.6. DiGiorgi leads the team on the glass with 8.8 rebounds/game.