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Article: Geneva women basketball team makes history

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After improving defensively this season facing the familiar opponents of the NAIA American Mideast Conference, unranked Geneva College enters a place no other women's basketball team at the Beaver County school has known.

The Golden Tornadoes (24-4), the AMC Tournament champions who have relied primarily on a stingy defense to set a school record for victories in a season, will be making their first appearance in the NAIA Division II playoffs.

They face No. 8 MidAmerica Nazarene (30-3) in a first-round game Thursday in Sioux City, Iowa.

"It is a real blessing for us to be playing in the national tournament. It's very uplifting," said Geneva coach Ron Galbreath, the former Westminster men's ...

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