The women’s basketball team will have a home game against Westminster College Saturday, Feb. 3 with five Presidents’ Athletic Conference games left. The Jackets are 11-8 (7-5) tied for the fifth in the PAC standings and the Titans come into the game 7-12 (3-9), good for seventh in the PAC. Despite the disparity in the standings between the two teams, head coach Sam Jones will not be taking this game lightly.

“Westminster plays very hard, very well and they’re well coached. We came off a little slow against them the first time and I’d like to not have a slow start,” said Jones. “We will have to be ready and ready to pay attention to detail, then come out with some good energy and focus.”

The last time these two teams played, the game was at Westminster and the Jackets won 80-61. Five Jackets were in double digits and received a solid shooting night by junior Anna Bartman, who went 6-of-9 shooting from three.

Waynesburg ended a three-game losing streak against Thiel Saturday Jan. 27, and two of the three games they lost were to teams they had beaten earlier in the year. Waynesburg has also been on the road for all but two out of the past 11 games, but Jones said he isn’t worried the travel has gotten to his team.

When it comes to players to stop, Jones highlighted sophomore Emily Fromknecht, who is averaging 11.3 points per game 7.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game.

“Fromknecht, as a post player, is pretty good in the post so we got to make sure we don’t give her easy hoops,” said Jones.

In the first match-up Fromknecht was in foul trouble all game and only played 22 minutes, which was her third lowest total minutes played on the season.

Jones also pointed out shooters sophomore Aliya Gage, who is shooting 40 percent from three and senior Page Quinn, who is shooting 39.5 percent from three and averaging 4.2 three-pointers per game.

As Waynesburg continues the season, Jones has hope that the team can correct mistakes on games lost while on the road.

“Really just looking for us to have a consistent effort and focus on the details is important,” said Jones. “When you know we’ve kind of lost a couple games the second time after we won the first time through and they’re both good teams, so it’s not like it’s this big thing. But we put ourselves behind the eight ball, we got to make sure we get every single one we can.”

When Waynesburg tips off Saturday, it will have to play five more games in the PAC—two of which will be against teams ahead of them in the standings W&J and Thomas More. Both of these games are on the road and are played back-to-back.