Basketball 11/13/2014 9:25:00 AM

Falcon Basketball Opens Saturday

The Cedar Crest College women's basketball team enters the 2014-15 season with high expectations after welcoming in a very talented class this season.

We are two days away from the 2014-15 edition of the Cedar Crest College basketball team kicking off their third campaign under the direction of Head Coach Ty Taylor. This will feature some old and new faces on the roster in addition to a challenging schedule that will test this Falcon team.

Leading the Falcons this season are seniors, DeJanet Lantion (Silver Spring, MD/John F. Kennedy), Breonna Lewis (Abingdon, MD/Sovereign Grace Homeschool) and Shaquira McCottry (Philadelphia, PA/Girard College). As they begin their final journey as Falcons, the threesome hope to achieve a level us success that has not been seen since the 2008-09 season when Cedar Crest went 14-12 overall and 8-8 in the CSAC.

Rounding out the roster are juniors; Kayleigh Keggan (Blairstown, NJ/Belvidere) and Denyell Spingola (East Haddam, CT/Nathan Hale-Ray); sophomore, Taylor Osley (Allentown, PA/Louis E. Dieruff High School); and freshmen, Sarah Babbie, Carley Desiderio (Boyton Beach/Olympic Heights), Victoria Eppright (Drexel Hill, PA/Delaware County Christian), Elizabeth Michas (Moravia, NY/Moravia Central),Miranda Schaefer () and Shemeca Thompson (Bridgeport, CT/Warren Harding).

Cedar Crest will tip-off this season at the Third Annual Women's Colleges Tournament on Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16, hosted by Notre Dame of Maryland University. Host Notre Dame will play Bryn Mawr College in game one, while Cedar Crest will play College of New Rochelle at 3 p.m. The Blue Angels of New Rochelle defeated the Falcons in last year's tournament championship game held at Bryn Mawr College.

The Falcons will play the first of three Penn State University branch campuses this season. On Wednesday, November 19^th they host PSU Lehigh Valley; then host PSU Abington on Saturday, November 22^nd in the 3 p.m. game of the Hilton Garden Inn Tournament at Lees Hall Gymnasium. To start the New Year off, the Falcons travel to Middletown, PA to take on PSU Brandywine on January 3^rd at 5 p.m.
Other non-conference opponents are Lehman College and Morrisville State College, both of whom will participate in the Hilton Garden Inn Tournament the weekend of November 22^nd and 23^rd at Cedar Crest. Your Falcons will travel to Brooklyn, New York to battle St. Joseph's College on Monday, December 1^st. And before the holiday break, Lees Hall will welcome the Diplomats of Franklin & Marshall College on Monday, December 8^th at 7:00 p.m. To wrap of the regular season, the Falcons travel to "The Pit" to battle the Patriots of University of Valley Forge.

Within the CSAC, Cedar Crest will play home and home contests against Keystone College on December 3^rd and February 9^th; Cabrini College, away on December 5^th then home on February 7^th; Cairn University, away on January 5^th then home on January 24^th; they travel to Baptist Bible College on January 7^th then host on February 4^th; and hosts Gwynedd Mercy University on January 14^th and travels to the Griffins on February 14th.

Single CSAC contests are played against Neumann University on January 10^th; Immaculata University on January 12; host Marywood University on January 26^th; at Centenary College on January 28; travel to Rosemont on January 31^st and play host to Notre Dame of Maryland University at home on the 11^th of February.
So, come root for your Falcons, in what should be an excited 2014-15 season.

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Players Mentioned

#43 Kayleigh Keggan: G/F; 5' 7"; Junior

#21 DeJanet Lantion: G/F; 5' 7"; Senior

#23 Taylor Osley: G; 5' 3"; Sophomore

#13 Breonna Lewis: G/F; 5' 9"; Senior

#3 Denyell Spingola: G; 5' 4"; Junior

#25 Victoria Eppright: G/F; 5' 10"; First Year

#24 Shemeca Thompson: F/C; 6' 0"; First Year

#55 Miranda Schaeffer: F; 5' 9"; First Year

Players Mentioned

#43 Kayleigh Keggan
: 5' 7"; Junior
: G/F

#21 DeJanet Lantion
: 5' 7"; Senior
: G/F

#23 Taylor Osley
: 5' 3"; Sophomore
: G

#13 Breonna Lewis
: 5' 9"; Senior
: G/F

#3 Denyell Spingola
: 5' 4"; Junior
: G

#25 Victoria Eppright
: 5' 10"; First Year
: G/F

#24 Shemeca Thompson
: 6' 0"; First Year
: F/C

#55 Miranda Schaeffer
: 5' 9"; First Year
: F

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Players Mentioned

Players Mentioned