Basketball - W | 12/31/2014 8:59:00 AM

BURNABY, BC – The SFU women's basketball team will try to re-establish its winning ways with a pair of home games this week, beginning New Year's Day against Montana State University Billings at 7:00 PM in the West Gym. The games will feature the top four scorers in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.
 
Clan senior forward Erin Chambers (Mission, BC) is averaging 24.7 points per outing and is No. 1 in the GNAC and second in NCAA Division II in scoring. MSUB features the No. 2 and No. 3 scorers while the Clan's opponent on Jan. 3, Seattle Pacific, features the conference's No. 4 scorer. The game against Seattle Pacific begins at 7:00 PM in the West Gym.
 
The games are also available live and on demand in HD:
 
Jan. 1 vs. MSUB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-cvbVl7Cw
Jan. 3 vs. SPU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpEW6wl2PE
 
SFU enters 2015 on a two-game losing streak, both losses coming at home against Cal State Dominguez Hills prior to Christmas. Despite the setbacks SFU remains among the top ranked teams in the West Region, ranked No. 10 in the last Regional Poll. SFU won its only Great Northwest Athletic Conference game of the season, a come-from-behind 74-71 win over Western Washington back on Dec. 6.
 
Chambers has led the Clan in scoring seven times and has helped SFU go 5-4 in its first nine games. Chambers has scored 30 or more twice this season and is shooting 45 percent from the field and .898 from the free throw line. Not only has Chambers been a dangerous scoring threat, but she averages 6.0 rebounds per game and has dished out 37 assists.
 
SFU also features the No. 8 scorer in the GNAC. Meg Wilson (London, ON), a 6-foot-1 junior forward is averaging 14.9 points and shooting.556 from the floor. She also averages 8.9 rebounds per game, started the season with three consecutive double-doubles, and currently has four. Her rebound average includes four per game at the offensive end.
 
On Thursday, the No. 2 and No. 3 scorers make their way to the West Gym. Senior forward Kaylee Goggins averages 18.5 points per game while sophomore forward Alisha Breen averages 17.8 ppg for MSUB, 9-3 overall. The Yellowjackets are riding a four-game winning streak into the West Gym.
 
On Saturday the Clan will be up against the No. 4 scorer in the GNAC, forward Suzanna Ohlsen of SPU (16.9 points per game). In two games at the Las Vegas Challenge in December, Ohlsen shot at a 65.2 percent clip to boost her shooting percentage for the season to .564. That ranks No. 1 in the GNAC – albeit by just eight points ahead of the Clan's Wilson (.556).
 
Ohlsen and the No. 2 ranked Falcons are off to their best start since 2008-09 and enter the week 9-1 overall. But they have lost four straight to Simon Fraser – a GNAC Tournament semifinal in 2013, both of last year's regular-season games, and a GNAC Tournament first-round game in 2014.
 
SFU senior guard Katie Lowen (Lethbridge, AB) ranks sixth in the GNAC in 3-point shooting, hitting .433 (29 of 67) from behind the arc.