Women's Basketball | 11/15/24 | 3:03 PM

HELENA, Mont. - The No. 9-ranked Carroll Women's Basketball team will play a pair of CCC opponents this weekend, No. 23 Lewis-Clark State and Eastern Oregon on Friday and Saturday at the P1FCU Activity Center in Lewiston, Idaho.

The Fighting Saints (1-1) enter the week as the No. 9 team in the NAIA, and will start their weekend off with a Top-25 matchup against the No. 23 Warriors on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.

The teams are no strangers, having met 32 times since the 2004-05 season. Carroll holds a 20-12 record in the series, and won a top-10 bout between the pair last season at the Thanksgiving Classic in Helena, 91-79.

Both teams look much different this season, with the departure of NAIA Player of the Year Jamie Pickens from Carroll, and All-CCC performer Callie Stevens for the Warriors.

The Warriors have a pair of wins over Arizona schools, including a 79-61 win over Carroll's next home opponent, Embry-Riddle.

On Saturday, the Saints will square off with Eastern Oregon at 3 p.m. to cap the event.

The Saints and Mounties have only one prior meeting, a 48-34 win in the 2019-20 season in Helena.

Willa Albrecht (Billings, Mont. / R-JR) had an impressive outing in Carroll's win over Whitworth last weekend, filling up nearly every column of the stat sheet in a 22-point, eight-rebound performance.

Addi Ekstrom (Bozeman, Mont. / SR) has been outstanding in the early season, leading the team at a 20.0 ppg average, while shooting 58.8 percent from three point range.

Both games will be streamed live HERE. Live stats for Friday's game can be found HERE, and live stats for Saturday's game HERE.

Visit www.carrollathletics.com each evening for a full recap of the action, and to stay up to date with everything going on in Carroll Athletics.

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