Team
of
the Week Top player at each position last week
Jan. 23-29, 2006
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players.
Men
Pos.
Women
Floyd Bayiha
Sr., Milwaukee Engineering
G
Staci Humphrey
Jr., Greensboro
Brian Scordato
Sr., Union
G
Keli Ward
Fr., York (Pa.)
Toby Brittian
Jr., Lesley
F
Sara Cavanaugh
So., Cortland State
Craig Johnson
So., Coast Guard
F
Amber Bodrick
Fr., Thiel
Steve DeLuca
So., Brandeis
F
Jill Trenz
So., Wheaton (Ill.)
Floyd
Bayiha
Bayiha averaged 29.5 points, five rebounds, four steals and three assists
during a 2-0 week for Milwaukee School of Engineering. Against Wisconsin
Lutheran, he scored 40 points, going 10-for-16 from the field and 19-for-23
from the charity stripe. Bayiha also added five rebounds, three steals
and three assists in the 95-94 overtime victory. In a 79-57 win against
Maranatha Baptist, he recorded 19 points and five steals. On the week
he shot 64% from the field, 75% from behind the arc and 86% from the foul
line.
Brian Scordato
Scordato finished with 18 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in a 63-59
win over RPI. He scored 19 points on 7-for-9 shooting from the field,
making all five three-point attempts, in a 68-61 overtime win vs. Vassar.
Scordato also had seven rebounds and six assists in that win.
Toby Brittian
Brittian helped Lesley rally from two 10-point deficits to win an 81-78
conference contest vesus Mount Ida in their only contest of the week.
He finished with 37 points — on 14-of-17 shooting from the field
- 11 rebounds, six assists, six steals and five blocks.
Craig Johnson
Johnson shot 76.3% from the floor in a 3-0 week. He scored 19 points in
a road win at Springfield, 32 points in a road win at Roger Williams and
finished the week with 32 points and 11 rebounds in a home win over MIT.
Steve DeLuca
DeLuca led the Judges to a 2-0 UAA week by averaging 25.5 points and six
rebounds per game. He shot 78% from the floor (18-of-23), including 75%
from beyond the arc (6-for-8) and 90% from the free throw line (9-for-10).
In an 81-64 win over Case, DeLuca led all players with 23 points on 9-for-11
shooting from the floor, including 5-for-6 from downtown. In a come-from-behind
victory against Emory, he scored a career-high 28 points by going 9-for-12
from the floor and 9-for-10 from the free throw line.
Staci Humphrey
On a 2-1 week for the Pride, Humphrey averaged 27.3 points, 7.7 steals,
six rebounds and five steals. In an 87-55 win over Peace, she recorded
32 points and a school-record 13 assists. Humphrey then hit seven three-pointers
en route to 27 points in an 84-67 win over Shenandoah. She added nine
rebounds and seven assists in that contest.
Keli Ward
The Spartans went a perfect 3-0 for the week as they downed Elizabethtown
80-59 on Monday, Gallaudet 87-54 on Wednesday, and Salisbury 76-73 on
Saturday. The freshman point guard averaged 17.7 points, 10.3 rebounds
and seven assists per game. Ward shot 57% from the field and 91% from
the charity stripe. In 107 minutes, she committed only five turnovers.
She scored a career-high 24 points against Elizabethtown, while nearly
recording a triple-double versus Gallaudet with 16 points, 11 rebounds
and eight assists.
Sara Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh scored 34 points and pulled down 15 rebounds in 29 minutes in
68-51 win at Geneseo. She made 9-of-11 field goals and finished with 20
points and seven rebounds in 65-43 home win over Buffalo State the following
evening.
Amber Bodrick
Bodrick scored 51 points for the Tomcats in their 92-89 overtime win against
Bethany on Wednesday, the highest total in any division of NCAA women's
basketball this season. Her total is the most by any female in all NCAA
divisions this season. The freshman shot 20-of-32 from the field (63%)
and 8-of-9 from the charity stripe (89%) against the Bison, adding 11
rebounds and five steals to her statline for the game.
Jill Trenz
Trenz helped lead Wheaton to a pair of road victories last week, averaging
16.5 points and 11 rebounds per game. The All-American shot 70.6% (12-for-17)
from the field, with eight blocked shots. On Tuesday she led the Thunder
to a 60-50 victory at Millikin by recording a double-double with 20 points
and 10 rebounds. Trenz shot 9-for-13 from the field against the Big Blue
and blocked four shots. In Saturday’s 63-52 win at North Central,
Trenz scored 13 points, with seven rebounds and four blocked shots.