Smith's Morrison, Suffolk's Guinta Receive NEWBA Weekly Accolades

Morgan Morrison
Smith 
Senior • Forward • Detroit, Michigan

Morrison scored a season-high 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Smith College basketball team came away with a 71-68 overtime win at Trinity. The senior forward shot 81.8 percent from the floor and recorded her second double-double of the year. 

Colby Guinta
Suffolk
Feshman • Guard • Manchester, NH

Guinta poured in a career-high 25 points behind a 9-for-11 effort from the floor, which included a 3-for-4 showing from downtown to pace Suffolk to its ninth-ever triumph against the Engineers. She added one rebound and one steal to her stat line.  

• Izabelle Booth, RIC (Sr. | Forward | Newport, RI) - Booth was named the Little East Women's Basketball Player of the Week. She helped the Anchorwomen to a pair of wins by averaging 20.5 ppg, 9.0 rpg and 2.5 apg. She had a career-high 23 points to go along with eight boards, three assists and a block in an 85-78 win at Bridgewater State on Nov. 22. Booth registered 18 points, 10 boards, two assists and a block in the club's, 72-43 win vs. Wesleyan on Nov. 27.
• Maggie Russell, Tufts (Jr. | Forward | Morristown, NJ) - Russell led the Jumbos to a come-from-behind win over University of New England, 69-55 last week. She scored a game-high 24 points while pulling in eight rebounds with four assists and four steals.
• Sam Hourihan, Springfield (Sr. | Forward | Bridgewater, MA) - Hourihan helped hold a Williams team to just 58 points (averages 66/ppg for the season) with nine rebounds and four blocks. The senior also had a game-high 23 points and was 3-of-5 from beyond the arc. 
• Katelyn Fanning, Western Connecticut (Sr. | Forward | Dobbs Ferry, NY) - Fanning was named the LEC Co-Player of the Week after scoring 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor and a 5-for-5 performance at the free throw line in a 64-57 victory over Mitchell College. She also pulled down 13 rebounds to go with four assists and three steals.
• Anna Barry, Eastern Connecticut (Sr. | Forward | Andover, CT) - Barry helped the Warriors extend their winning streak to four by averaging 17 points and 16 rebounds in a 2-0 week against non-conference opponents which included a 71-63 home win over Western New England University and a 63-48 road victory over Connecticut College. Barry, who has scored at least 12 points in every game for the 4-2 Warriors, recorded her back-to-back double-doubles with 16 points and 14 rebounds against WNEU and 18 points and a career-tying 18 rebounds against Conn. Barry shot 58 percent from the floor against WNEU and was 13-of-28 (46 percent) from the floor on the week. She also had six assists, six steals and two blocked shots in two games. 

 Izabelle Booth

Maggie Russell

Sam Hourihan

Katelyn Fanning

Anna Barry

NEWBA Second Team

• Kylie Grassi, Bridgewater St. (So. | Forward | Plymouth, MA) - Scored 22 points and added seven rebounds (two offensive), three steals and a blocked shot in an 85-78 setback to Rhode Island College. Connected on 11 of 13 (84.6%) free throws.
• Abby Garaban, WNEU (Sr | Guard | Maplewood, NJ) - Garaban poured in 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting to go along with five rebounds, two assists and one steal in a 71-63 loss to Eastern Connecticut. 
• Kaegan Dunbar, UNE (Gr. | G | Middlebury, VT) - Dunbar shot 4-of-4 from three-point range in the 1st period against Anna Maria and finished with 20 points against the AmCats. She finished with 12 points, seven rebounds and two assists against nationally-ranked Tufts.
• Caroline Elie, Roger Williams (Jr. | Guard | Rockland, MA) - Elie recorded 20 points on 6-of-10 shooting with nine rebounds, four assists and two blocks in an 81-56 win against UMass Dartmouth. 
• Victoria Mirecki, WPI (Gr. | Guard | Washingtonville, NY) - Mirecki registered a traditional 3-point play with just 1.9 seconds left to deliver WPI a dramatic 56-54 road triumph against Bates in the Engineers' lone contest last week. The graduate student had a penchant for big plays on Sunday as her jumper to beat the horn at the end of the third quarter headlined an 18-8 stanza for the Crimson and Gray and put the visitors ahead 44-42 heading to the fourth. Mirecki led the Engineers off the bench with a season-best 15 points, just two shy of her career-high of 17 her sophomore year against Nichols in November of 2019.

Kylie Grassi

Abby Garaban

Kaegan Dunbar

Caroline Elie

Victoria Mirecki