Hasson & Gonzalez Receive NEWBA Weekly Accolades

Hasson & Gonzalez Receive NEWBA Weekly Accolades
PrestoSports Player of the Week Rookie of the Week


Maddie Hasson
Bowdoin
Senior • Forward • South Portland, Maine

Hasson averaged a double-double last week with 19.0 points, 14.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks per game while shooting 52% from the field. She led the Polar Bears to NESCAC wins over Bates and Colby. Hasson scored 23 points with 13 rebounds against the Bobcats before posting 15 points and 15 boards against the Mules.



Pam Gonzalez
Regis
Freshman • Guard • Revere, Mass.

Gonzalez earns NEWBA Rookie of the Week honors for the second time this season after averaging 16.3 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 2.0 steals, and 1.3 blocks per game. In Regis' 20-point win over Wentworth on Monday, she notched her first career double-double with 13 points and 15 rebounds, while also collecting four assists, two steals, and two blocked shots. Gonzalez followed that up with a season-high 20 points and six boards in Thursday's loss to Framingham State. In Regis' final game of the week on Saturday, Gonzalez finished with 16 points, six rebounds and three steals against Eastern Nazarene. 

Honor Roll
  • Kristen Curley, Southern Maine (Jr. | Guard | Gorham, Maine) Curley averaged 23.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 2.0 blocked shots over two games while shooting 51 percent from the field, and 44 percent from three-point range. Curley had a season-high 29 points in USM's 66-49 win over WestConn, scoring 10 of the Huskies' final 11 points of the game to close out the LEC victory. Earlier in the week, she totaled 17 points and two boards at UMass Boston. 
  • Emily Jacques, Springfield (Sr. | Guard | Auburn, Maine) Jacques finished the week averaging 19.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists, three steals, and a pair of blocks per game as the Pride posted a pair of strong victories over Stevens and Connecticut College. Earlier in the week, Jacques put up 16 points, seven boards, and four steals against Stevens, then, had a career-high 22 points on 50% shooting with six rebounds, four offensive in the win over the Camels. 
  • Isabella Nerney, Nichols (Jr. | Guard | Guilford, Conn.) Nerney produced 25.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game over a pair of Nichols wins last week. She scored 15 points to go with five boards and two steals in a seven-point victory over Wentworth, and then broke out for 36 points and eight boards in a road triumph at Clark. 
  • Hannah Nicholson, Brandeis (Sr. | Forward | Sunderland, Vt.) Nicholson averaged 17.7 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, shooting 65.5% from the field and 93.8% from the foul line in a 3-0 week as the Judges got off to their best start since the 2008-09 season. She had 19 points and a career-high-tying 16 rebounds in a 99-88 overtime win against Babson, hitting 7-10 from the field. Nicholson added 14 points and 12 boards for her second double-double of the week at Clark on Thursday night, then led all scorers with 20 points on Saturday at Johnson and Wales in an 83-55 road win.
  • Tianna Sugars, Colby-Sawyer (Sr. | Center | Oxford, Maine) Sugars paced the Chargers in a pair of wins, as the team improved to 7-1, with 16.5 points, 13.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game. She began the week with a game-high 18 points, six rebounds and three blocks in the team's 80-55 win at Salem State. Sugars then posted her sixth double-double of the season with an impressive 15 points and 21 rebounds to help the Chargers to a 72-65 victory over Middlebury, the Panthers' first loss of the season.

 


Curley

Jacques

Nerney

Nicholson

Sugars