HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women's basketball team will honor its senior class before Saturday's 2014-15 4:30 p.m. season finale versus Nicholls in the University Center.
 
The game between the Lady Lions (7-21, 3-14 Southland) and the visiting Colonels (16-12, 12-5 Southland) will be broadcast live in the Hammond area on KSLU-FM (90.9) and on the Internet at www.LionSports.net, where live stats and live video (LionVision subscription required) will also be available.
 
Southeastern has been eliminated from postseason contention and will close out the season on Saturday. Prior to the game, seniors Adrina LaVern, Annessa De La Cruz, Jameika Hoskins, Symone Miller and Elizabeth Styles will be honored for Senior Day.
 
Miller will be Saturday's Spotlight Player of the Game. The first 100 fans will receive a trading card featuring the Gonzales, Louisiana native courtesy of PRIDE.
 
Despite all five starters scoring in double figures, the Lady Lions lost their ninth straight game, 84-75, at New Orleans on Thursday. Junior guard Peaches Anderson led SLU with 15 points and was joined in double figures by Styles (14 points), junior guard Erica Hernandez (14 points), Hoskins (11 points) and junior forward Nanna Pool (10 points).
 
In the loss, De La Cruz led SLU with a career-high tying 11 rebounds. Styles led the Lady Lions with a game-high eight assists.
 
Pool leads the Lady Lions with 11.5 points per contest and is the only SLU player averaging in double figures. Styles (15 points away) and Miller (18 points away) are both within striking distance of reaching 1,000 career points on Saturday.
 
Styles enters Saturday's finale atop the Southland Conference and 13^th in the nation with 6.4 assists per game. The Savannah, Georgia native is fourth in school history with 497 career assists and could become the first player in program history to top both 1,000 career points and 500 career assists.
 
In Pool (8.8 rpg, 3^rd) and Hoskins (7.6 rpg, 9^th), SLU features two of the top rebounders in the Southland Conference. Pool, who has 11 double-doubles this season, is sixth in school history with 729 career rebounds.
 
Opponents are scoring a league-high 74.0 points per game versus SLU. Pool leads the team with 34 blocked shots, while Hoskins (43) and Styles (41) are the team leaders in steals. Styles also ranks sixth in school history with 156 career steals.
 
Nicholls has won its last two games and is attempting to secure a first-round bye in next week's league tournament. Senior guard Jenny Nash leads the team in scoring (13.9 ppg), rebounding (6.0 rpg), assists (3.0 apg) and blocked shots (23). Junior guard Emani White adds 10.4 points per game, while freshman guard Tia Charles leads the Colonels with 2.4 steals per contest.
 
SLU leads the all-time series with its in-state rival, 57-16. On Feb. 14, five SLU players scored in double figures and Southeastern made a season-high 15 three-point field goals. However, Nicholls had five players of its own reach double figures and pulled away for a 93-80 victory.