MATCH-UP
No. 2 seed Baldwin Wallace hosts No. 6 seed Mount Union in the semifinals of the Ohio Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament Thursday at 7 p.m. in Upsprung Gymnasium in Berea.
 
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The Purple Raiders (10-13) enter the semifinals Thursday with an upset win over No. 3 seed Marietta, 68-64 and have won four of their last six.
 
Baldwin Wallace (19-4) won its quarterfinal game against Muskingum 91-42 and has won nine of its last 10 games. The Yellow Jackets also swept a pair of regular season meetings with Mount Union winning 66-51 in Alliance and 70-57 in Berea.
 
Baldwin Wallace is third in the OAC scoring with 68.2 points per game while Mount Union is seventh and averages 59.6 points, but the Raiders are the top offensive rebounding team in the conference at 15.2 rebounds per game while Baldwin Wallace is seventh averaging 11.2 rebounds per game.
 
Mount Union junior Emma Cannon (Dalton) leads the Raiders and is fourth in the OAC in scoring at 13.4 points per game and also tops the conference in free throw percentage at 86.4-percent. Senior Isi Palamone (Murrysville, Pa. / Franklin Regional) is team's top rebounder at 6.8 per game which is fifth in the conference while senior Corenna Maynard (Chagrin Falls / Kenston) leads the team with 1.7 assists per game.
 
Baldwin Wallace's Lily Edwards leads the conference in scoring with 16.0 points per game and second in rebounds with 8.6 per game while Megan Scheibelhut is third in blocks per game in the OAC with 1.5 per game.
 
OAC Tournament History
It is the 33rd OAC Tournament appearance for Mount Union as the Raiders have a 31-27 record and won titles in 1998, 2011, 2012 and 2016.
 
Baldwin Wallace is making its 33rd OAC Tournament appearance with a 46-25 record in tournament games and the Yellow Jackets have won an OAC best nine titles.
 
Mount Union and Baldwin Wallace have met eight previous times in the tournament, three times being the championship game and the Purple Raiders have won five of the eight games.

2021 - #3 Baldwin Wallace 56, #4 Mount Union 47 (Semifinals)
2016 - #2 Mount Union 67, #4 Baldwin Wallace 57 (Championship)
2010 - #2 Mount Union 71, #3 Baldwin Wallace 61 (Semifinals)
2007 - #6 Mount Union 65, #3 Baldwin Wallace 61 (Quarterfinals)
2001 - #1 Baldwin Wallace 73, #6 Mount Union 66 (Championship
1998 - #1 Mount Union 84, #3 Baldwin Wallace 78 (Championship)
1995 - #2 Mount Union 71, #3 Baldwin Wallace 68 (OT) (Semifinals
1989 - #8 Baldwin Wallace 70, #9 Mount Union 58 (First Round)
 
Up Next ...
The winner advances to Saturday's OAC Championship with the highest remaining seeded team hosting the game.
 
Coaches
Suzy Venet (Mount Union '98) is 275-170 (.617) in her 17th season at her alma mater.  She has led the Raiders to four OAC Tournament titles, two OAC regular season titles with four trips to the NCAA Tournament including making it to the Sweet 16 in 2010 and 2012. She has 286 career coaching wins including a season as head coach at Manchester (Ind.) and had assistant coaching stints at Minnesota State and Bowling Green.
 
Cheri Harrer (University of Findlay '86) is 640-232 (.733) in her 31st season at Baldwin Wallace and has led the Yellow Jackets to nine OAC titles as head coach. She has taken the Yellow Jackets to five "Sweet 16" appearances along with three "Elite 8" appearances.