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North Eastern Athletic Conference Student-Athlete of the Week Selections for 1-9-12
GANSEVOORT, N.Y. – The North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) has announced its Student-Athlete of the Week selections in the sports of men’s and women’s basketball for the period ending January 8, 2012.
Jordan Gatchell
(Manheim, Pa.)
has been selected as the NEAC Men’s Basketball
Student-Athlete of the Week for his tremendously efficient week for
the Penn State Harrisburg Nittany Lions. The
junior guard led the Lions to a 2-0 week after posting two-game
averages of 18 points, 7 assists, 4.5 rebounds, 3 steals and a
7-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio per game while nailing six
3-pointers and going a perfect 12-for-12 from the free throw
line. Gatchell helped the Lions pick up their first-ever
victory over non-conference rival Lebanon Valley College with 18
points, seven assists, six boards and no turnovers in the 92-77
victory last Tuesday, and followed that up with 18 points, seven
assists, four steals and a perfect 10-for-10 night from the free
throw line in a 87-77 victory over NEAC foe SUNY Institute of
Technology on Saturday. Gatchell is currently second in the
NEAC in both assists (4.8) and assist-to-turnover ratio (3.2) per
game.
Lyndsey Brognano (Rome, N.Y.) has earned her
second straight selection as the NEAC Women’s Basketball
Student-Athlete of the Week after helping the SUNY
Institute of Technology Wildcats open their conference
play with two victories and leading her squad to a perfect 3-0 week
overall. The junior guard finished the week with three-game
averages of 18 points, 4.3 assists and 3 steals per contest while
shooting 47 percent (17-for-36) from the field and 83 percent
(15-for-18) from the free throw line. After beginning
the week with game highs of 27 points and six assists to help the
Wildcats defeat local rival Utica College 71-55 last Tuesday,
Brognano went a perfect 12-for-12 from the free throw line and
finished with 17 points, five assists and four steals to help
SUNYIT hand conference rival Penn State Harrisburg its first NEAC
loss of the season with a 73-68 victory Saturday. She
finished the week with 10 points in just 27 minutes of action
during a 51-30 victory over Gallaudet Sunday to give her a
conference-leading 206 total points on the season thus far.
The Rest of the Week’s
Highlights: Gallaudet University
junior forward Danny Kelly (Strongsville,
Ohio) was a “super sub” for the Bison,
returning to the court after missing a month with an injury and
coming off the bench to score 20 points in 21 minutes against
SUNYIT and 15 points in 19 minutes against Cazenovia to help
Gallaudet pick up two conference victories …
Morrisville State College sophomore forward
Mickey Davis (Jamesville, N.Y.), the NEAC’s
leading scorer at 19.2 points per game, dropped a game-high 22
points to lead the Mustangs to a 92-79 conference victory over Penn
State Abington yesterday … Penn State
Harrisburg sophomore guard Will Doyle (Franklin,
Va.), who leads the NEAC in both assists (5.8) and
assist-to-turnover ratio (3.6) per game, tied a school record with
10 assists in the 87-77 victory over SUNYIT and finished the week
with an outstanding 19-to-0 assist-to-turnover ratio …
Wells College senior forward Terry
Harrison (Brooklyn, N.Y.) posted three
double-doubles and averaged 17.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per
contest through four games this past week …College
of Saint Elizabeth senior forward Sabrina
Jarmolinski (Lakewood, N.J.) reached the
1,000 career points milestone 10 points into her game-high 17-point
effort against SUNY Cobleskill yesterday, which came a day after
she tallied a game-high 21 points in a 63-54 conference victory
over Morrisville State on Saturday … Cazenovia
College freshman guard Haley Zambito
(West Bloomfield, N.Y.) hit 14 3-pointers
and averaged 17.3 points per game during a 2-1 week for the
Wildcats, which included two conference victories …
SUNY Cobleskill senior forward Chelcy
Moore (Albany, N.Y.) averaged 14 points and 9.5 rebounds
per game in two conference victories for the Fighting Tigers
… Keuka College sophomore guard
Danielle Gravel (Sidney, N.Y.)
averaged 15 points and 2.5 steals per game during a weekend sweep
in NEAC action that helped the Storm extend their win streak to
five games … Wells College sophomore
forward Ashley Roser (Taberg,
N.Y.) notched a double-double in two of the three Express
contests this past week.
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The North Eastern Athletic Conference has thirteen NCAA Division III member institutions which include: Cazenovia College, College of St. Elizabeth, Gallaudet University, Keuka College, Lancaster Bible College, Pennsylvania State University - Abington, Pennsylvania State University - Berks, Pennsylvania State University -Harrisburg, SUNY Cobleskill, SUNY Institute of Technology, SUNY Morrisville State College, Wells College, and Wilson College. Associate members are: Hilbert College (M Lacrosse), Medaille College (M&W Lacrosse) and Rutgers University - Camden (M Golf). The North Eastern Athletic Conference has partnered with the North Atlantic Conference in the sports of baseball, women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s tennis.
