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2009-102009-10 WOMEN’SWOMEN’SWOMEN’S BASKETBALLBASKETBALLBASKETBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, First Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Women’s Basketball Contact: Ralph Ventre Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • Saint Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Women’s Basketball Northeast Conference Women’s Basketball Facts & Figures (Week #6 - December 21, 2009) Recent Results School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Tuesday, December 15 1. Long Island 2-0 1.000 7-4 .636 W1 4-3 3-1 0-0 Wisconsin 62, ROBERT MORRIS 46 Sacred Heart 1-0 1.000 6-3 .667 W3 2-2 4-1 0-0 Robert Morris 1-0 1.000 5-5 .500 L3 4-2 1-3 0-0 Thursday, December 17 Saint Francis (PA) 1-0 1.000 2-5 .286 W2 2-1 0-4 0-0 SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 94, Youngstown State 58 5. Bryant 1-1 .500 3-7 .300 L3 2-4 1-3 0-0 6. Quinnipiac 0-0 .000 3-5 .375 W1 2-2 0-2 1-1 Saturday, December 19 Monmouth 0-0 .000 3-6 .333 L3 2-1 0-5 1-0 Saint Bonaventure 66, FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 49 Fairleigh Dickinson 0-1 .000 4-6 .400 L1 3-1 1-5 0-0 Central Conn. St. 0-1 .000 3-6 .333 L1 1-3 2-3 0-0 Sunday, December 20 Mount St. Mary's 0-1 .000 3-6 .333 L3 1-2 2-4 0-0 Lehigh 78, BRYANT 61 Wagner 0-1 .000 2-7 .222 L4 2-1 0-6 0-0 Rutgers 62, CENTRAL CONN. ST. 53 St. Francis (NY) 0-1 .000 1-7 .125 W1 1-4 0-3 0-0 Morehead State 58, ROBERT MORRIS 57 *- Denotes that team has clinched NEC Tournament berth. Top eight teams in final standings qualify for NEC Tournament. MOUNT ST. MARY’S at George Washington, PPD Home Team Underlined. No Underline indicates neutral court. Choice Hotels NEC Player of the Week Britney Hodges, Saint Francis (PA) Upcoming Games Sr., G, 5-6, Dayton, OH/Mount de Chantal Monday, December 21 Hodges’ hot hand yielded a third consecutive performance of at least 20 points as the Red Flash routed Yale at QUINNIPIAC 7:00 pm Youngstown State. Making the Penguins the latest victim of her scoring surge, which has resulted in 76 SACRED HEART at Binghamton 7:00 pm points over the past three outings, Hodges poured in 28 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field. The Duquesne at SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 7:00 pm WAGNER at Saint Peter’s 7:00 pm 5-foot-6 senior guard hit all five of her three-point attempts in the 94-58 victory. Hodges, who did not turn the ball over at all in 32 minutes, also contributed a game-high eight assists and six rebounds in Tuesday, December 22 what was Saint Francis’ lone game last week. Upping her average to 17.0 points per game, Hodges’ Troy at ST. FRANCIS (NY) 5:00 pm latest effort allowed her to overtake Fairleigh Dickinson’s Mariyah Laury for the NEC scoring lead. Monday, December 28 BRYANT at Florida Int'l 5:00 pm Choice Hotels NEC Rookie of the Week Santa Clara at ROBERT MORRIS 7:00 pm Vega Gimeno-Martinez, Robert Morris Yale at SACRED HEART 7:00 pm ST. FRANCIS (NY) at Iona 7:30 pm Fr., F, 6-1, Valencia, Spain/Spanish National U-20 LONG ISLAND at Tulane (New Orleans, LA) 6:00 pm Gimeno-Martinez led Robert Morris in scoring (11.5 ppg) over its last two games to garner Choice QUINNIPIAC at Miami (Coral Gables, FL) 7:00 pm Hotels rookie honors for the third time in four weeks. The freshman forward averaged 11.5 points SAINT FRANCIS (PA) at Stetson (DeLand, FL) 5:30 pm and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 47.4 percent from the field in setbacks to Wisconsin (10-2) and Tuesday, December 29 Morehead State (9-4), opponents who have a combined 19-6 record thus far. Gimeno-Martinez put up BRYANT at Fla. International (Miami, FL) 5:00 pm 14 points, which came on 6-for-12 shooting, and five rebounds in a 62-46 loss to the Big Ten member MOUNT ST. MARY’S at Penn 7:00 pm Badgers. The 6-foot-1 native of Spain sunk a trio of three-point field goals to account for nine points CENTRAL CONN. ST. vs. Charlotte (Blacksburg, VA) 5:00 pm in a one-point defeat at the hands of Morehead. Her late three-pointer brought Robert Morris within Howard at MONMOUTH (West Long Branch, NJ) TBA LONG ISLAND vs. Texas Tech/NDSU (New Orleans, LA) 6/8:00 pm two points, 58-56, of MSU with 23 seconds to play. Gimeno-Martinez made 5 of 12 attempts from QUINNIPIAC vs. Texas/CMU (Coral Gables, FL) TBA downtown during the two-game span. SAINT FRANCIS (PA) vs. American/UB (DeLand, FL) 3:00 pm WAGNER at Lehigh (Bethlehem, PA) 4:30 p 2008-09 Northeast Conference NEC Notebook 2008-09 League Leaders Team Scoring Offense Individual Scoring Heavy Snow Causes One Postponement during Light Week Sacred Heart, 69.2 ppg Sade Logan (RMU), 20.8 ppg Northeast Conference members played a combined six games during last week's light schedule. Robert Morris was the lone NEC team to play twice while Saint Francis (PA), Bryant, Central Team Scoring Defense Individual Rebounding Connecticut State, and Fairleigh Dickinson each had one outing. Mount St. Mary's saw its Monmouth, 54.9 ppg Monet Johnson (RMU), 10.6 rpg scheduled date against George Washington fall victim to the weekend snowstorm that slammed across the mid-Atlantic region. The Mountaineers and Colonials are expected to soon announce a Team Scoring Margin Individual FG Pct. make-up date for the postponed game. Sacred Heart, +7.8 ppg Kaitlin Sowinski (SHU), .530 (204-385) Team Rebounding Margin Individual Free Throw Pct. Five Games on Docket Before Christmas Break Monmouth, +6.1/g Brianna Rooney, .880 (66-75) The upcoming schedule squeezes five games in prior to Christmas. Four Northeast Conference teams - Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart, Saint Francis (PA), Wagner -- will take the floor on Monday Team FG Pct. Individual Assists (Dec. 21) before breaking for the holiday. St. Francis (NY) will host Troy on Tuesday (Dec. 22) Sacred Heart, .440 Andrea Reed (WC), 5.10 apg to close out the week. The schedule will then embark on a five-day hiatus. Seven teams return to the floor on Monday (Dec. 28) of next week to begin winding down the non-conference portion of Team FG Pct. Defense Individual Steals the season. Northeast Conference play tips off in earnest the week thereafter. Sacred Heart, .382 Brianna Rooney (QU), 2.57 spg Team Free Throw Pct. Individual 3-point FG Pct. Three-point Barrage Makes Saint Francis Senior NEC Scoring Leader Quinnipiac, .749 Callan Taylor (SHU), .441 (41-93) Since scoring her 1,000th career point against Pittsburgh, Britney Hodges (Dayton, OH/Mount de Chantal) has been on fire. In the three games that have followed, the Saint Francis (PA) senior Team 3-point FG Pct. Individual Blocks guard has made a combined 12 three-point field goals while boosting her scoring average to a Sacred Heart, .384 Kaitlin Sowinski (SHU), 2.94 bpg league-leading number (17.0 ppg). Shooting 63.2 percent (12-of-19) from downtown, Hodges has averaged 25.3 points over the past three contests. The recent surge has catapulted the 5-foot-6 Team Turnover Margin Individual Assist-TO Ratio point guard to the top of the NEC scoring leader board where her 17.0 points per game recently Quinnipiac, +3.62/g Brianna Rooney (QU), 2.31 moved her ahead of Fairleigh Dickinson sophomore Mariyah Laury (16.6 ppg). Hodges, who scored 16 points in a 75-70 setback at Pitt, logged the first of three straight 20-point performances against five-time defending Mid-American champion (regular season) Bowling Green. After scoring 28 points against the MAC Preseason Favorite, Hodges poured in 20 to lift the Flash past Mount St. Mary's in the Northeast Conference opener. Her latest effort produced another 28 points against Youngstown State. Northeast Conference Saint Francis (PA) Picking Up Speed 2009-10 League Leaders Coming off an NEC Championship Game appearance and a runner-up showing in the NEC Preseason Coaches Poll, Saint Francis (PA) carried great expectations into the 2009-10 campaign. The tough Team Scoring Offense Individual Scoring early season schedule, which opened at Big East member Marquette, saw the Red Flash drop their Long Island, 69.0 ppg Britney Hodges (SFPA), 17.0 ppg first five games, but Susan Robinson Fruchtl's club has rebounded in recent days. After dropping the season's first three contests by double-digit margins, Saint Francis began to turn the corner at Team Scoring Defense Individual Rebounding nationally-ranked Pittsburgh. The Red Flash were within three during the game's final minute, but Central Conn. St., 57.7 ppg Leanne Crockett (CCSU), 9.2 rpg fell by a 75-70 score. Another five-point setback to perennial Mid-American Conference power Team Scoring Margin Individual FG Pct. Bowling Green directly followed before the Flash finally broke into the win column against a Long Island, +5.6 ppg Kelly Clark (WC), .583 (28-48) familiar foe.