Hamline University Athletics

                                                                        By AJ Piram

The Hamline Women’s Basketball team is off to a great start this year. With many new faces the Pipers have made many improvements from last season to this season starting the season 2-1.

One of these new faces -- Alaina Quaranta -- has been huge part of these improvements. Quaranta, a sophomore transfer from Augsburg, has been playing great this year.

Quaranta has been the leading scoring through three games for the Pipers, The Eau Claire, Wis. native is averaging 16.3 points, five rebounds and three assists per game. HU opened the season with wins at Northwestern and North Central just 20 hours apart.  Last Tuesday, she fired in a game high 17 markers in Hamline’s 70-63 home court loss to Wis-Stout.

Quaranta and the Pipers finish up their non-conference schedule versus Crown College AT Hutton Arena. The tough conference schedule begins with games at Augsburg on Wednesday, Nov. 30 (7:00 p.m.) and Bethel on Saturday, December 2 at Hutton (1:00 p.m.)