WASHINGTON, Pa. -- With two weeks remaining in the Presidents' Athletic Conference basketball regular-season, Washington & Jefferson College travels north on Interstate 79 Wednesday to battle Grove City College. 

The women's game tips off the doubleheader at 5:30 pm, while the Presidents and Wolverines square off for the men's contest at 7:30 pm.  Live stats of both games are available courtesy of the Grove City sports information office.

The W&J women (14-7, 9-5 PAC) held fourth-ranked Thomas More to its lowest scoring output of the season on Saturday in Kentucky, but the Saints still held off the Presidents 65-52.  Coming into the game, Thomas More had been outscoring PAC competition by an average of 51 points.  Chelsea Apke had 18 points, nine rebounds and five steals for the Presidents, who only trailed 56-50 with 3:46 remaining. 

W&J's final four opponents (Grove City, Chatham, Geneva and Bethany) are all teams the Presidents have already defeated once this season.  The Presidents are tied with Waynesburg and Westminster for third place in the league standings.  Westminster plays at Thomas More Wednesday and at Waynesburg Saturday.  The Yellow Jackets still must also face the league's second-place team, Saint Vincent, at home on Feb. 19. 

The Presidents took the first game of the series with Grove City on Jan. 15 in Washington behind 26 combined points from Apke (16) and Kara Seamon (10).  W&J forced 23 GCC turnovers and had 15 steals.  Grove City's only lead came when Mary McDonald scored the first basket of the game. 

Washington & Jefferson extended its overall lead versus Grove City in the all-time series to 43-24.  W&J had won four consecutive games in the series and is looking for its second-straight season series sweep. 

Grove City (7-14, 5-9 PAC) enters the final two weeks of the season tied with Bethany for sixth place in the PAC standings.  The Wolverines had a three-game win streak come to an end Saturday when dropping a 73-34 home decision to Saint Vincent.  Kathryn Erbelding, who missed the first meeting between the Presidents and Wolverines, led GCC with eight points.  Grove City shot 23 percent, making exactly 7-of-30 shots in each half. 

Apke went over 800 career points (809) in her second season with the Presidents after transferring from Division I Presbyterian during the loss at Thomas More.  She is also five rebounds shy of 500 as a President.  Apke is shooting 54.6 percent during her career which ranks her 17th among active NCAA Division III players.  Seamon is three assists away from 300 for her career.  Only 49 active players in NCAA Division III have more career helpers than the Presidents' senior point guard. 

The W&J men (11-11, 6-7 PAC) are looking to get back into the win column after suffering losses to Waynesburg and Thomas More.  The Presidents are tied with Waynesburg for the No. 4 spot in the league standings which gives hosting rights for a PAC Tournament quarterfinal game on Feb. 25.  However, Grove City is also in the mix with a 5-7 league record (8-12 overall).  After playing W&J, the Wolverines close with the three teams below them in the standings. 

Grove City was held to 35 percent shooting (19-55) in its first game this year at W&J.  During an 11-minute stretch in the first half, the Wolverines went without scoring a field goal, but still managed to claw back and only trail 26-23 at the break.  A 16-5 run in the second half, fueled by two Doug Johnson three-pointers, helped W&J seal the win.  Nate Bellhy led the Presidents with 14 points and 15 rebounds, while Brian Giesler (3-10 threes) led GCC with 13 points. 

W&J's victory extended its lead in the all-time series with Grove City to 60-54.  The Presidents have won two-straight at the Grove City College Arena and are looking for their first season sweep of GCC since the 1993-94 Presidents, who went on to post a 22-3 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. 

The Wolverines have lost four in a row, including a 78-62 home setback to league-leading Saint Vincent Saturday.  Grove City was out-rebounded 42-27 and only made four trips to the free throw line, making one.  Stephen Tam had three of the team's seven three-pointers and led all GCC scorers with 13 points.  Mitch Marmelstein (4-13 field goals in first meeting with W&J) is the Wolverines' leading scorer at 13.1 points per game.

In the Presidents' 11 victories, W&J is shooting 36 percent from three-point range and out-rebounding its opponents (37.9-36.5).  On the flip side, during the 11 losses W&J gets out-rebounded by five boards (38.1-33.1) and is only shooting 25.8 percent from beyond the arc. 

Bellhy leads the team with 18.1 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.  He has 743 points and 410 rebounds in his two seasons with the Presidents since transferring from NCAA Division II Seton Hill. 

The W&J men are idle Saturday when the women's squad hosts Chatham on Senior Day (1:00 pm) at the Henry Memorial Center.