NEWBA Announces Weekly Awards for November 23

Bailey Donovan

Posted: Nov 22, 2022

Player of the Week

Rookie of the Week

Bailey Donovan
Husson
Junior • Forward • Island Falls, Maine

Donovan finished the week with her fifth-straight double-double. She recorded 22 points and 16 rebounds in just 23 minutes against the University of Southern Maine, adding three blocks and two steals. Tallied 16 points and 17 rebounds against Saint Joseph's College of Maine to finish the week averaging 19.0 points, 16.5 rebounds, three assists, 1.5 steals, 1.5 blocks on 71.4 percent shooting from the floor.

Sophie George
Plymouth State
Feshman • Guard • Meredith, NH

George averaged 22.5 points and 4.5 rebounds, while draining 13-of-14 free throws for the week. She poured in 25 points to go with four rebounds and two steals while playing all but 43 seconds of a 77-64 win over Rivier on Tuesday. She capped the week with a 20-point, five-rebound, two-steal effort while shooting 8-of-15 from the field in Saturday's setback to Wheaton.

NEWBA First Team
Flannery O'Connor, Framingham St. (Jr. \| Forward \| Amesbury, MA) - O'Connor averaged 23.7 points, 13.3 boards, two blocks and 1 steal while shooting 50% (31-62) from the floor in a 2-1 week for the Rams. She scored 28 points with 16 rebounds in the 102-74 win over Eastern Nazarene. She was named to Coastal Classic All-Tournament Team after scoring 21 points with 11 rebounds in the 69-61 win over Maine Maritime and 22 points with 13 rebounds in a 62-51 setback to Bowdoin. Kelly Vuz, Castleton (Sr. \| Guard \| Blairstown, NJ) - Vuz averaged 23.0 points per game while shooting 45.7 percent from the floor to earn Little East Conference Player of the Week honors. She also hit 38.5 percent from three, leading the team in all three categories. She also made 9-of-10 at the free-throw line and grabbed 4.5 rebounds per game. On Friday, she racked up a career-high 29 points in a win for Castleton. Abby Fernandes, Wheaton (So. \| Guard \| Assonet, MA) - In two games, the sophomore averaged 18.0 points on 51.7% (15-29) shooting to go with 3.5 assists, 1.5 rebounds, 5.0 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. The guard began the week with 21 points on 10-18 from the floor in addition to a rebound, four steals and a career-high seven assists in a 87-77 overtime win vs. Regis College (Mass.) on November 16. The NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week capped the week by scoring 15 points, grabbing two rebounds, making six steals and blocking three shots in a 63-48 win at Plymouth State University on November 19. Reilly Campbell, Trinity (Jr. \| Center \| Wallingford, CT) - Campbell scored 25 points and grabbed 15 rebounds with a blocked shot in Trinity's 59-54 win over Eastern Connecticut. In a 52-44 victory at Connecticut College, Campbell had 16 points and 16 rebounds, two blocks, and two steals. She made 11 of 15 shots from the floor against the Warriors. Amanda DeAngelis, Suffolk (Jr. \| Forward \| Londonderry, NH) - DeAngelis averaged a near double-double with 18.3 points and 9.7 rebounds per game to go along with a 2.0 steals per game performance. She opened the week with a double-double against Salem State with a 20-point, 13-carom, effort that went along with a two-steal and two-block defensive effort. Across the Boston Commons at Emerson, she registered 12 points, eight boards, three takeaways and one swat. The captain wrapped up the week her second 20-plus point of the week, a 23-poitn offensive output that went along with an eight-rebound effort.

Flannery O'Connor

Kelly Vuz

Abby Fernandes

Reilly Campbell

Amanda DeAngelis

NEWBA Second Team

Maggie Russell

Pam Gonzalez

Ericka Pratt

Samantha Smith

Anna Barry

Maggie Russell, Tufts (Jr. | Forward | Morristown, NJ) - Russell continued an impressive start to her junior campaign by averaging 21.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game in three wins for the Jumbos. In Tufts' win at Brandeis, Russell finished with 31 points, eight boards and four assists
Pam Gonzalez, Regis (Sr | Guard | Revere, MA) - Pam Gonzalez produced one of the top offensive performances in program history last Wednesday at Wheaton College. She shot 14-for-27 from the field, including 3-for-6 from behind the three-point line, and 5-for-6 from the free throw line to finish with 36 points, the second-highest single-game point total in Regis history and just one point off the single-game school record. Playing all 45 minutes of the overtime game, she also pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds and earned four steals. Saturday at UNE, Gonzalez grabbed nine rebounds and earned three steals to go along with six points.
Ericka Pratt, NEC (Sr. | F | Miami, FL) - Pratt continued to dominate with three double-doubles in four games, leading the 'Grims to a 3-1 record. The senior shot an amazing 88.9 percent from the floor on Wednesday against NVU Johnson, scoring 19 points with 12 rebounds and five assists. For the week, the defending NECC Player of the Week and NEWBA honoree averaged 16.8 points, 12 rebounds and 3.3 assists on 45.5 percent shooting.
Samantha Smith, Babson (Sr. | Forward | Greenfield, MA) - Smith averaged 14.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 2.5 blocks while shooting 59.1 percent from the floor in a pair of wins for No. 21/25 Babson. She had eight points, seven boards and two blocks in Wednesday's 62-34 victory at Rhode Island College and followed it up by matching her career high with 20 points on 10-of-15 shooting to go along with a season-high 13 rebounds and three blocks in Saturday's 61-53 triumph over Roger Williams.
Anna Barry, Eastern Connecticut (Sr. | Forward | Andover, CT) - In a 2-1 week which included two wins at the Williams College Morin Memorial Tournament, the six-foot forward averaged 17.0 points and 9.3 rebounds with seven assists, six steals and two blocks, and shot 51.2 percent from the floor. In a 60-52 win over Stevenson University in the first round of the tournament, Barry had 18 points and 11 rebounds. In Tuesday?s 59-54 road loss to Trinity College, she recorded the 1,000th point of her career. She had 17 points (8-of-14 FG) and eight rebounds with one turnover in 40 minutes in that game.