ROCHESTER, Mich. – In what will serve as the program's Senior Night, recognizing Breanne Beatty and Raquel Ferrer-Bernad with a pregame ceremony, the Oakland Golden Grizzlies will clash with their Metro Series rival Detroit Mercy Titans at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 20 at the O'rena in their final home game of the 2022-23 season.

Looking to round out the home portion of their schedule with a victory, the Golden Grizzlies are 11-15 and in eighth place in the Horizon League at 6-11 in conference play, while Detroit Mercy is in 11^th place at 5-21 (3-14).

Oakland defeated the Titans, 81-66, at Calihan Hall on January 18 behind a career-high-tying 21 points from Beatty and 17 from freshman Brooke Quarles-Daniels. Junior Irene Murua paced Detroit Mercy with 13 points that night.

GOLDEN GRIZZLIES RUNDOWN
Recording 12 points in the Saturday, February 18 tilt with the IUPUI Jaguars, Quarles-Daniels leads Oakland in scoring at 11.5 points-per-game and is followed by junior Alexis Johnson at 10.7 and Beatty at 10.4.

Starting each of the last two games after coming off the bench for the previous 19, sophomore Kennedie Montue has scored in double figures in three of the last five, including 15 against IUPUI, her second-best showing of the season.

Reaching or eclipsing 70 points for the 12^th time this year Saturday, the Golden Grizzlies are seventh in the Horizon League at an average of 64.5 points and are No. 8 on the defensive end, giving up 71.1.

SCOUTING THE TITANS
In their first season under head coach Kate Achter, Detroit Mercy is the lowest-scoring team in the conference at 55.3 points and tenth defensively, surrendering 72.3.

Murua is the lone Titan scoring in double-digits at 11.5 points, but senior guard Imani McNeal is close at 9.4.

Pulling down 8.1 per night, Murua also leads Detroit Mercy in rebounding, with freshman Amaya Burch and sophomore Emma Trawally Porta being additional contributors on the glass, averaging five and 6.4 boards, respectively.

TELEVISION AND LIVE STATS LINKS
Monday's action will air on basic cable on TV20 Detroit WMYD and can be viewed online here.

Additionally, the Live Stats are available at this link.

ALL-TIME SERIES
Dating over 23 years to December 28, 1999, Oakland and the Titans have battled 27 times with the Golden Grizzlies holding an 18-9 edge.

Beginning with a home victory on January 27, 2018, Oakland will enter Monday on an 11-game winning streak in the series.

SEASON-LONG STORYLINES

NEW FACES FOR GOLDEN GRIZZLIES
Faced with the graduations of Kahlaijah Dean, Kayla Luchenbach and Brianna Breedy, who combined to average 28.7 points and 9.9 rebounds last season, the Golden Grizzlies brought in a trio of diversely talented transfers in Raquel Ferrer-Bernad, Alexis Johnson and Linda van Schaik.

A Southfield A&T Warriors graduate, Johnson is a junior forward who played three seasons in Conference USA (C-USA) for the Marshall Thundering Herd, while Ferrer-Bernad is a graduate student point guard who came from a different C-USA program, the Florida International Panthers.

van Schaik, another junior, joined Oakland by way of the Sun Belt Conference's Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks and projects to provide the team with another 3-point shooting threat.

On top of the program's work in the transfer portal, the Golden Grizzlies' 2022 recruiting class features a couple of high-upside players in guard Brooke Quarles-Daniels, a Miss Michigan Basketball candidate a year ago from L'Anse Creuse North, and Lianna Baxter, a 6-foot-1 forward who starred at Oconto and is one of the top-100 scorers in Wisconsin high school history.

BREANNE BEATTY HEADLINES GROUP OF RETURNING PLAYERS
Appearing in all 83 of the program's games over the last three seasons, and starting all but two of them, senior guard/forward Breanne Beatty was named to the Preseason All-Horizon League Second Team on October 18.

The pride of Worthington, Ohio, Beatty is Oakland's leading returning scorer at 9.7 points-per-game in 2021-22.

In addition to Beatty, guards Kennedie Montue and Aaliyah McQueen and forward Miriam Ibezim, all of whom of sophomores, are back with the program and are in line to contribute significantly right from the season's opening tip.

JEFF TUNGATE ENTERS 10^TH SEASON
Named the eighth head coach in program history on July 16, 2013, the 2022-23 campaign is the 10^th with Jeff Tungate at the helm.

Third on the school's all-time wins list with 126, Tungate and four-year veteran assistant Crystal Davis made some changes to the coaching staff ahead of this season, bringing in Golden Grizzly Hall of Famer and former Mercyhurst Lakers head coach Deanna Richard and Tim Webb, who has extensive coaching experience at both the high school and collegiate levels in Michigan, as assistant coaches.