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ATLANTA, Ga. – Eastern Kentucky senior Jasmine Stovall gets to go home for Thanksgiving.  The Lawrenceville, Ga., native and her Lady Colonel teammates will play a pair of games at Georgia State’s Starwood Hotels of Atlanta Thanksgiving Classic.

The team and staff will depart Richmond on Wednesday and enjoy Thanksgiving Day dinner on Thursday afternoon it Atlanta.  On Friday the Lady Colonels will face Appalachian State at 4 p.m.  EKU will take on Campbell University at 2 p.m. on Saturday.  All games will be played at the Georgia State Sports Arena.

The Lady Colonels (1-2) are coming off their first win of the season.  Eastern trailed by 10 less than four minutes into the game and trailed by as many as 11 points three times in the first half, but the Lady Colonels never folded in a 71-60 victory over Western Michigan on Sunday.

Raechele Gray led Eastern with a career-high 18 points.  The junior made 4-of-6 attempts from three-point range and also had four rebounds, four assists and two steals.  Brittany Coles contributed 12 points and Alex Jones added 11 points.  Stovall registered a team-best six rebounds.

The win snapped a nine-game losing streak that dated back to last season.  It was Eastern’s first road win since Feb. 20, 2010 at Morehead State, snapping a streak of 15 straight road losses.

Eastern Kentucky leads the series with Appalachian State 4-1.  The Lady Colonels are 3-0 against the Mountaineers at neutral sites.  The last time the two teams met, EKU won 69-64 on Nov. 27, 2004 in Tallahassee.

Appalachian State is off to a 2-1 start to the 2011-12 season.  The Mountaineers have wins over Gardner-Webb (69-41) and East Tennessee (89-65).  ASU’s loss was at Virginia (80-48).

ASU brought back three starters from last year’s 25-7 team that won the Southern Conference regular season title with a 17-3 record.  Only two letter winners were lost from that team, both of which were starters and the team’s top two scorers.  Anna Freeman, a 6-foot junior forward, is leading the team in scoring (17.3 ppg) and is tied for the team lead in rebounding (7.7 rpg).  Courtney Freeman, a 5-foot-11 guard/forward, is the team’s second leading scorer (12.3 ppg) and is tied for the rebounding lead.  Freshman Maryah Sydnor is contributing 10.3 points per game.

As a team, Appalachian State is averaging 69 points per game while holding opponents to 62 per game.  ASU has been out-shot from the field (41 percent to 39 percent) and from behind the arc (39 percent to 29 percent) but has out-rebounded opponents by almost six boards per game and is committing five fewer turnovers per game.

In the victory over East Tennessee on Monday, Anna Freeman scored 20 points and Sydnor came off the bench to score 20 and grab eight rebounds.  Catherine Williams, a 6-foot-1 senior forward, had 10 rebounds.  ETSU shot 41 percent from the field and 50 percent from three-point range, but turned the ball over 34 times and was out-rebounded by 20.  Appalachian State totaled 23 steals and 31 of its 54 rebounds were off the offensive glass.

Campbell enters the event with a 4-0 record.  The Camels are holding opponents to 44 points per game.  Only one opponent has scored more than 43 points and on Monday Campbell limited Longwood to 33 points.